Album Express 3.0
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Introduction
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Album Express is a great Windows tool for creating slick,
professional-looking picture albums for home, friends and the
Web. Its wizard-like interface and built-in templates make it
easy to present your pictures in style: you can produce a slide
show, create an index, catalog your pictures, and build a fully
searchable image database -- all with just a few clicks of the
mouse.

If you're a computer novice, you'll love this program's ease of
use. Just select the pictures you want, select a template and
watch Album Express assemble your creation in no time -- editing
Web pages was never like this! Your picture collection comes
complete with standard navigation tools, and you can even include
a background image for added impact. Whether you want to view
your albums at home, using your favorite browser, or upload them
to your home page on the Internet, it's as easy as clicking on a
mouse button.

Album Express is also an ideal tool for power users. Its full-
featured scripting language will enable you to build your own
album templates, allowing almost unlimited creativity in
developing display styles and techniques. Demonstration templates
are provided to show you some of the possibilities: you can build
framed pages, allowing pictures to be selected from thumbnail
images, or take advantage of the multimedia potential of HTML by
associating pictures with MIDI tracks or sound clips -- the sky's
the limit.

Remember that if a picture can convey a thousand words, your
picture albums can build a virtual library!


Installation
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You can install this release over a previous copy if you want to
keep all your settings. Just extract the Setup.exe file from the
.zip package and execute it.

How to Uninstall
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You can uninstall Album Express by using the Control Panel's
Add/Remove Programs dialog box or the Uninstall Album Express
icon in the Start menu. Note that this will delete your program
settings and any descriptions you assigned to pictures. If you
want to save your settings and descriptions, you should make a
copy of the Album.ini file and all the files in the Settings
folder.


Technical Support
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Free technical support is available to registered users of Album
Express. If you have a problem installing or running your
registered copy of the software, you can ask for help by writing
to <support@fookes.com>. If you have problems ordering or getting
your registered copy of Album Express, please contact the online
distributor's customer support (Digital River:
<custserv@DigitalRiver.com>), or write to <sales@fookes.com>.
Please do not use these e-mail addresses for questions about
using Album Express. We provide a free mailing list to help you
with all non-customer support issues (see below).


Questions and Answers
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If you have questions about using Album Express or would like to
learn some time-saving tricks from other users, then please join
the Album Express mailing list (even if it is just for one
question). It is free for everyone (registered and non-registered
users). Album Express' author frequently answers questions and
also uses the list to announce updates and changes to the
software. You will find more information about this list on the
following web page:

   http://www.fookes.com/maillist.htm

To subscribe, just send an empty e-mail to this address:
   <album-express-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>

and to unsubscribe later, send an empty e-mail to the following
address:
  <album-express-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com>

You will also find useful information, links, and other 
Album Express-related resources (upgrade programs, answers to
common questions, etc.) by visiting one of the Album Express web
site at:

   http://www.fookes.com/album/


Feedback
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Bug reports, criticism, and comments are very welcome. You can
send suggestions to the Album Express mailing list at
<album-express@yahoogroups.com> (note that you will have to first
subscribe, as explained above). Or you can write directly to us
by sending your email to <feedback@fookes.com>.


I hope you will enjoy using Album Express.

--Eric G.V. Fookes
Developer and founder of Fookes Software

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