Photograph album

A photo album (short for photograph album ) is a book for the collection, organization and storage of photographs from paper. The domain of the photo album is the private area where photo albums typically describe holidays, celebrations and everyday life. In addition, the medium by artists ( models, actors ) is used for application purposes. Since there are ways to digitize images and print cheap in good quality, is mixed forms of classic albums spread with glued digital photos to complete digital albums created from paper or the Internet.

Traditional Photo Album

End of the 19th century, when it was not yet the amateur photography in its present form, passed " photograph albums" from the

The images in such " family albums " came almost exclusively by professional photographers. The paper prints were adhered to Pappkärtchen of predetermined dimensions, which could then be inserted into corresponding pockets of the album. The backs of these cards showed a more or less artistically designed business card of the photographer.

The photo album consists of a cover, usually leather or plastic, as well as insert sheets or plastic bags that are used to record the images. The individual pages are made of lightweight cardboard, on which the photos are attached by means of photo corners or simply glued on. Since the end of the 20th century, acid- free paper has become established as standard in paper photo albums.

Apart from the traditional photo album with sorted inserted images and texts exist, the scrapbooks with the freer forms of design of the diary and poetry album. Here are photos glued into the structure of handwritten text, newspaper clippings, tickets, etc. and give the photo album is a collage-like appearance.

Among the technical variants of the photo album includes photo book, Slip, spiral album, Screws album, self-adhesive album, Memo Album ( Slip with labeling fields ), Leporello, photo folder and photo boxes. Most albums are today, especially China made ​​in Germany, Eastern Europe and Asia.

Digital photo albums

Since the price decline in the value chain of digital photographs since about 2000, the classic photo album gets a new upswing in digital form. This ranges from completely created digitally, but then placed on paper photo album, often called " photo book " to show images on PC or on the Internet.

Digital photo albums are managed by an image database and can be viewed on a PC. Stored on a digital media ( such as DVD ), they can be archived or forwarded over time. Digital images contain additional information that may be relevant to a photo album, including details of the Recording; and the subsequent accumulation of so-called metadata after the IPTC -NAA standard are the benefits of digital photo album. Conventional computers and smartphones provide opportunities, digital photographs, underlaid with music, play as a slide show ( slide show programs). " Digital Photo Album " (digital photo album, DPA ) is also the term for devices for viewing of digital images in picture frames. This image viewer has a 7-8 "LCD screen in the rule and are supplied with a rechargeable battery so they can be used on the move.

If a digital photo album is created in the Internet, there are two different forms:

• A small program (eg in the PHP scripting language ) is located along with the images in the memory of a web server and generates the album from there.
• A Fotoalbum-/Bildergalerieprogramm created from the original digital recordings by the user's specifications, a picture gallery or a photo album in HTML format. The files and preview images thus generated are uploaded along with the originals on the web server. Also, some image editing programs include this feature already.

Ever since (from about 2008) Social networks have widespread, millions of people are open daily photos in these networks up and there create photo albums that can be viewed by other users. Often, these photo albums are interactive, which means that viewers can comment on individual photos or highlight image details.