This software is shareware.
The unregistered version is fully functional.
You are legally entiteled to use it over an evaluation period of 30 days.
For information how to register, new downloads or anything else go to http://computer.team.lu
I have developed this software because i was not happy with other products i have found on the market.
As a digital camera owner and passionate photographer i needed a way to process large amounts of high resolution photos, organize and layout them quickly and precisely, print out single images and print out pages with the photos layed out, keep them together in an album and long time archive them.
All the existing programs i saw needed huge PC Power, used proprietary file formats (this is very bad for real archiving, think of it) and were slow with importing, displaying and page flipping.
This lead to the following, i think unique, implementation of the ctPhotoBook program.
When you import an image into an album, a copy of the original file is copied to the [PageXXXX\Photos] subdirectory in the album directory for fast disk access. Subdirectory creation is automatic, as is the whole archiving process.
Concurrently, and according to the size layouted on the page, an image of the imported photo is rendered in exactly the resolution needed for screen display and stored with an identical mechanism in the [PageXXXX\Thumbs] directory.
In highly priced professional environments, this is made on the server side and called OPI, (Open Prepress Interface)
If you flip to the next page, the screen resolution images are loaded and displayed on screen, and not the original, huge, high resolution photos. This keeps memory and cpu usage low, while presenting no inconveniences.
Rerendering of a screen resoultion images is only done after it has been resized and you flip the page or you save the page layout.
If you print a page, the program will use the high resolution photos counterpart to produce the best output.
If you double click a photo to view its detail, again the high resolution part will be used for zooming and editing.
All the layout information is stored in [PageXXXX] subdirectories, within INI files, easily read with notepad.
If you want to archive an album, simply burn its corresponding directory, (including the .pbk file) on a cdrom, and there you are.