ShutterBug 2.5.3

ShutterBug 2.5.3  shares your digital photos with family and friends as easy as taking them. Shutterbug is a WYSIWYG Web site builder designed for the photographer in all of us. You can add photos to your site by simply dragging them and dropping them on the page.

Handy tools for rotating, as well as those for adding watermarks, thought bubbles, pointers, and other tidbits, also are included. Though Shutterbug can transfer your Web site to your server, it unfortunately only supports Apple's .Mac service or WebDAV.

Hopefully, future versions will support FTP transfers as well. Shutterbug is an easy-to-use and effective tool for both amateur and pro photographers looking to export their work to the Internet.

ShutterBug is a WYSIWYG website creation tool for publishing photo albums, journals, or full-featured websites. Fully WYSIWYG, you don't even have to know how to spell H-T-M-L to be able to create your own custom look. With the built-in themes & templates, you can make a photo album in minutes or easily modify a theme and change anything and everything to create your own unique look.

Keep it simple or go all the way. From beginners to advanced users, ShutterBug has something for everyone!

• ImageWell editor built-in to crop, rotate, add labels, adjust sharpness, contrast, etc.
• 100% WYSIWYG layout editor
• Thumbnail zoom feature lets you zoom in on a portion of the image for the smaller thumbnail image
• Export to .Mac, WebDAV, FTP/SFTP or a folder on your computer.
• Incremental export to send only the changes made since the last export
• 80+ themes to get you started, but the layout tool is so easy you'll be making your own look in no time
• Plus much more, don't let the small download size fool you!

Major Features:

1. The 3 Necessities to Website Creation
   • When you try ShutterBug, make sure to try out all three tabs on the interface -Content, Layout, and Preview. Build your content, add a theme and customize pages or create your own unique design, web preview your site, and one-click, your site is off to the web. And don't forget about all of the other great gems for displaying your images - crop, rotate and zoom in on your photos, adjust the sharpness, brightness, contrast and saturation, add watermarks and drop shadows, create collages, custom thumbnail sizing, link your caption text, embed links into your thumbnails, and add some alt tags if you want...plus much, much, more than first meets the eye!
2. Build Your Content Quickly
   • ShutterBug's Content window makes adding text and photos so easy and fast, you can have a website done in under thirty minutes or less. Drag and drop to add photos, movies, music and reorder pages and photos quickly. Add and edit as much text for each page as you like, and add the masthead, title and footer text. Use the Easy button for fast link insertion into page text, caption text or embed links into photos. Create separate album pages or categorize your pages into group folders. And that's just the beginning - ShutterBug lets you do so much more with your content!  ShutterBug gives you true power and ease without sacrifice to flexibility and without limiting your options.
     
3. Eye Catching Themes & Templates
   • There's a theme for every need. Check out the Theme Library and select from 26 stylish and fully customizable themes. Modify the theme, apply different templates to customize each page, or modify, add, and delete templates. You can change anything and everything about the theme and templates, or leave them as is, the choice is your's! You can even browse through dozens more free downloadable themes and templates at ShutterBug Land.  Learn more
4. Easy to Use Design Tools
   • ShutterBug's Layout window empowers you and equips you with the tools you need to create your own design, quickly and easily - a feature that alternative products can't tout. If you know how to use a mouse, then you'll have no problem creating a unique look and feel for your web site. Why not have some fun with the WYSIWYG design tools to bring your vision to life. Or start with a theme, be inspired and modify it to your liking. The sky is the limit with ShutterBug's easy to use layout tools that invite, rather than intimidate. No HTML or CSS knowledge needed, and absolutely zero graphic design skills are required. Leverage everything ShutterBug has to offer and experience the fulfillment of saying "I did that."
5. Photos & Slideshows
   • ShutterBug offers a wealth of options for displaying your photos, while producing high quality image processing for the web. When it comes to sharing and presenting your photos, you shouldn't be constrained by limitations. These are your photos and you know best how you want to display them. You can create album displays, free style displays, photo collages, add picture frames and mattes, create elegant slideshows, LightBox shows, use an unlimited number of caption lines or include iPhoto comments, create custom sizes for your thumbnails, before/after slideshows, plus so much more. All of this at no loss to quality and flexibility.
6. Movies, Contact Forms & More
   • ShutterBug doesn't stop at photos, you can easily add other media to your pages, such as QuickTime movies, Flash movies and MP3s. And that's not all. You can add email submission and contact forms, image rollovers, page counters, auto date and time, scrolling news tickers, and even pack your PDF or other external document files in with your site for easy linking to and exporting with your site. Advanced users can even add their own additional HTML to their sites if they choose. ShutterBug can help you do so much more with your website.
     
7. Set Up An Online Store...."That Was Easy"
   • The new shopping cart integration allows you to easily add a PayPal™ Shopping Cart to your ShutterBug site without having to endure any technical frustration and no need for any technical knowledge to accomplish it. This new feature makes it pain- free to integrate PayPal with your ShutterBug site to set up a store, and customize the look and functionality of your store pages to suit your needs. You can add Buy Now or Add to Cart buttons to each product image on the page, customize the functionality and appearance, choose the data you would like to display with each product, plus more. Advanced users can even add custom code to integrate a different third-party cart into their ShutterBug site.
     
8. One Click Publishing to Any Host
   • No constraints here either. The one click Send button lets you update your site on the fly, letting you make incremental changes while ShutterBug calculates and keeps track of the changes for you. You can even add password protection or publish a RSS feed if you like. Quickly send your site to any web host including S/ FTP, .Mac account, WebDAV host, or export to a folder on your computer. It's simple, robust, and fast!
     
9. Integrates With Your Other Web Sites
   • Already have a website but tired of the maintenance and limitations involved with your current tool? Let ShutterBug take this task over for you. Build your ShutterBug site and seamlessly integrate it with your other website(s). Create your text and photo gallery pages with ShutterBug and integrate them with an existing blog or discussion board. Easily create a matching look in ShutterBug's layout window and then link to your existing site from within your ShutterBug navigation menu - it really is that easy!
10. Cross Platform Browser Compatibility
    • Remove the hassle and worry of your site not rendering properly in all modern browsers on multiple platforms, including support for iPhone/iPod Touch browsers - ShutterBug eliminates this worry so you can focus on what really matters. What you see in ShutterBug's preview window is what you'll see on the web. There's no second guessing and it will save you time from having to test in multiple browsers. Spend more time presenting your photos and content, and let ShutterBug worry about the heavy lifting and technical know-how!
11. Feature-Rich Without the Bloat
    • ShutterBug gives you easy and powerful website creation that puts you in the driver's seat without making you "work around" or dig for alternative solutions. Professional and stylish themes, flexible editing tools, one-click publishing to your host, you can even create your very own design using drag and drop and the tabbed controls in the layout window, and there is no need to spend extra money on Add-On's - it's all there at your fingertips for one low price of $39.95. But don't let the price or small download size fool you. ShutterBug packs a powerful punch!
12. Leverages Other Modern Web Technologies
    • The PayPal Shopping Cart integration makes it fast and easy to add an online store to your ShutterBug site. ShutterBug is compatible with iMedia Browser which makes it easy to browse all of the media files on your computer from one spot, and import selected items into ShutterBug. ShutterBug also has iPhoto integration which makes it fast and easy to import your iPhoto libraries from within ShutterBug. You can also add LightBox shows for your photos, QuickTime files, and Flash files to your pages, as well as upload other external file types with your site. The flexibility and options just keep getting better

Requirements:

• Mac® OS X 10.3.9 or OS X 10.4.3 or OS X 10.5.2 or later.
• Universal Binary support for Intel-based Mac and PPC.
• Internet Connection and Web host space for uploading web sites.
• ShutterBug supports dot Mac accounts, WebDAV, FTP/SFTP, and export to a
• folder on your computer.
• Note: Testing on anything less than 10.3.9 has been discontinued. Upgrading to
• 10.3.9 (Panther) or 10.4.5 (Tiger) or 10.5.2 (Leopard) is recommended for optimal
• performance.