With Commercial shareware license, Photo Album Studio can be used by the professionals or businesses who have a client or customer base and need to provide personalized catalog services of their digital pictures.

For example, if you have a photo processing lab and/or provide digitizing services of paper pictures to your customers, you can use Photo Album Studio to create nicely created picture catalogs that can be easily viewed on your customer's PC with excellent presentation. After you collect the digital images of your customers (by scanning or from provided storage media), you can use the Photo Album Studio to create and build a catalog. After you build the catalog using Photo Album Studio, you then burn the catalog on to a CD-R and deliver it to your customers. To view their digital pictures your customers will use the Easy Album (RM) viewer application that gets packaged on the CD along with the picture catalog that you produce using Photo Album Studio. Your customers do not need to install any software on their computer. Only software requirement on the PC is the presence of a web browser (now a days every computer has this pre-installed) with Java support, such as, Internet Explorer 4.5 (or higher) or Netscape Navigator 7.0 (limited support for 4.5 or higher). Since the catalog is produced using HTML and JAVA technology, your customers are not limited to view their catalog on PC only. They can view the Photo Album Studio catalogs even on Macintosh, Unix or Linux computers as long as they have above mentioned web browser installed. It does not stop there only. There is more value add for your customers. The catalog that you deliver to your customers is web enabled. It means that the same catalog can also be uploaded on any web site without any modifications to be shared on internet.

You may configure the end user experience with Easy Album (RM) using various combinations of following options:

• Web Enabled Catalogs (catalogs can be uploaded and viewed on the internet)
• CD Autoplay and Catalog Index (catalogs burnt on CD autoplay when inserted in the drive on PC)
• Preset Picture Resize (pictures can be resized to 800x600 or 640x480 resolution.)
• Customized Author Name
• Customized Copyright Text
• Set Password
• Set Author Contact
• Allow Download (Easy Album allows the end user to download the picture)
• Startup Settings (these settings take effect when the catalog is loaded by the Easy Album (RM) viewer application.
  • Display/hide thumbnail index
  • Display/hide picture captions
  • Set initial picture display mode (Fit Larger, Fit All, Original Size)
  • Start slideshow (as soon as the catalog is loaded)
  • Preset slideshow delay (duration for which the current picture is displayed before switching to next)
  • Preset slideshow album navigation (Current album or All albums)
  • Preset slideshow album loop (go to the first item or stop after the last item is displayed)
• Advanced Settings
  • Lock Startup Settings (the settings at the startup can not be changed by the end user durign Easy Album runtime)
  • Hide Easy Album (RM) logo
  • Hide Album List Box (the drop down list box containing album titles is not displayed)
  • Display Album Title Instead (current album title is displayed instead of the album listbox)
  • Hide Picture Navigation Controls (First (|<), Previous (<), Next (>) and Last (>|) picture buttons are not displayed in Easy Album (RM); Home, LeftArrow, RightArrow and End keys can still be used to navigate between pictures)
  • Hide Album Navigation Controls (Previous (<<) and Next (>>) album buttons are not displayed in Easy Album (RM); PageUp and PageDown keys can still be used to navigate between the albums)
  • Disable Slide Show Control (Easy Album does not allow to change the startup slide show status, i.e., if slide show is on, end user cannot stop it or if slide show is not on, end user can not start it)
  • Start with Picture in Full View (pictures are displayed in the full view mode, i.e., the chrome (frame) around the picture is not displayed)
  • Lock Picture in Full View (the 'F' or 'Esc' key can not be used to switch between full view and normal view)

For a side by side comparison of available features with various licenses, click here.