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Advanced albums give you more control over the album creation process.

Create an advanced HTML album

1.Go to the folder of which you want to create an album.  
 
2.Select Basic HTML Album Generator from the Tools menu.  
 
3.General tab will be displayed. Specify general settings here, click the Thumbnails tab next.  
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0.  
Source folder  
All the images in this folder will be placed in the album.  
 
Page title  
This will be the title of all HTML pages of the a0lbum. You can also choose to add the page number to the title by clicking on Append page number.  
 
Rows and columns  
Specify the number of rows and columns used to arrange the thumbnails.  
 
Album creation folder  
The HTML album will be placed in this folder.  
 
4.The Thumbnails tab is used to adjust settings dealing with thumbnails. Click the Themes tab next.  
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Thumbnail size
Specify the thumbnail size here. Images can be resized to a particular ratio of the original or they can be fixed.

Images names
Images are by default named sequentially as 0.gif, 1.gif, etc. But you can either make myACDSee preserve the original file names or prefix some text to the numbers (eg: img0.gif, img1.gif...).

5.   The Themes tag is used to pick a theme for the album. Click the Advanced tab next.
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Select the theme you want from the drop-down menu. Information on theme and a preview, if available, will be shown. For extra themes, visit http://openimgmanager.sourceforge.net/


6.   The Advanced tab is used to set headers, footers and other miscellaneous settings. Lastly, click on the Finish tab.
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Page Header
This text will be displayed at the top of every page in your album. You can use HTML markup here.

Page Footer
This text will be displayed at the bottom of every page in your album. You can use HTML markup here.

Page Extension
All HTML pages will be given this extension, a variety of extensions like .php, .php3, .htm, .html, etc can be used.

8.   The Finish tab shows a summary of settings before the album is generated. Click on Generate album to create the albuum. Preview album can be used to open the folder containing the album.
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