14 DAY TRIAL // With 28 million photo albums published on the Internet, Jalbum should be a resonant name for any photo enthusiast that has assembled their work into a nice looking album and published it online. The number was given by Jalbum CEO Carl Manneh in a press release announcing the launch of the web-based version of the application.
The trend in the past years has been to do your computer work without having to actually install applications on the system, thus dropping the chances of gathering clutter and maintaining the registry clean. Users generally head towards portable applications that require a simple click to launch and which have the great quality of working on different machines, preserving whatever customizations and tweaking you may apply.
However, with the release of the online service, Jalbum goes past the limitations of the operating system, offering all users an easy way to create photo albums and share them with their friends. To get yourself an idea on what the service has to offer, you can try it absolutely free of charge and, more importantly, without having to create an account; that is if you do not wish to save your work.
But gluing the images together into an album is not all the browser-based app can do. Editing functions split up in three menus (Basic, Adjustments and Photo Effects) are available in quite a large amount. Let alone the simple options for cropping, resizing, rotating and flipping the image, there is a vast collection of adjustments (color inversion, red eye removal, auto levels, hue and saturation, sharpen, blur, denoise) and even a vaster one of effects (vignette, posterize, scanliners, diffuse, heat map, noise, pointilize, pastel, water shift, kaleidoscope, water swirl).
One setback compared to the Windows application is that you are not given the liberty to publish the resulting album directly to your site, and everything stays on their servers. You have, however, the possibility to create a blog badge and place it on your blog’s side bar. But if you want to share a batch of images and make an impression, you can safely use the service for sharing them with your friends.
