I got rid of the lines between the albums. Also I put some padding around the album thumbnails. See this screenshot for the improvements: http://monosnap.com/image/wcBd9YW65Y0AWFAVhUy0xgLoUx0pV5 I have created a similar pull request for the original ELCImagePickerController project: https://github.com/B-Sides/ELCImagePickerController/pull/98