The next generation of its popular software for publishing photo albums was launched today by the leading community site for personalized photo sharing, Jalbum.net. With Jalbum 8.0 offering entirely new capabilities for photo editing and improved organization of photos, it's now easier than ever before to share pictures online, on any web site. Fro organizing and editing of photos to publishing photo albums online, the tool now covers the whole work-flow. And best of all, it is available for everyone - for free.

More pictures are taken than ever before, with affordable digital cameras and camera phones continuing to improve in quality and ease-of-use, yet most people haven't found a convenient way to share their digital media. E-mail is still the primary method of sharing images with family and friends, which comes with the hassle of scaling the images first or sending large original files in several e-mails. These problems are history with this release of Jalbum: one tool for editing, organizing and sharing photos.

With currently 4 million downloads and started every 4 seconds globally, Jalbum has become immensely popular. More than 10 million albums have been published with Jalbum. Enabling an open source community to contribute has been  the key for Jalbum's rapid growth. The massive global Jalbum community covering Asia, USA, Europe, and Australia is highly active in supporting development both of the dynamic photo sharing site (http://www.jalbum.net) and the software with translations (32 languages), plug-ins and support of the product.

Jalbum's founder, David Ekholm, declared: "Adding photo editing to Jalbum is a natural step, since most users want to use one tool for their photo management. Answering 25,000 user e-mails gives me a good idea of what our users are looking for".