Phota provides comprehensive tools for archiving and annotating your images into attractive, interactive photo albums.  It is an ideal application for people with digital cameras, who wish to immediately enjoy their uploaded photos, without spending alot of time and effort in creating and formatting albums.  Images can be added very quickly with a Load Photos option, optionally from IPTC and/or EXIF info.  A versatile Page Designer screen contains intuitive controls for building and formatting album pages.  Audio and video sequences can also be incorporated into albums.  A handy Photo Index provides a quick scan through all of the photos in an album, with options to display thumbnail or full-screen images, show photo descriptive information or skip to a selected page.  Photo Search can be used to find all photos containing a particular string of text within their descriptions.  Album pages or individual photos can be viewed as a slide show, with various options.

The Gallery feature transforms the display into 3D perspectives, with album photos exhibited along the walls of various Gallery rooms.  Explore can be activated to automatically stroll through Galleries, pausing to admire each photo in turn.

The fully functional Phota can be downloaded and used for free.  A small sample album is included to illustrate some of the features of Phota:

The free Phota Package Builder program can be downloaded separately to create executable installation packages for sharing your own albums on CDs or DVDs or as Screensavers.