We have a pretty busy weekend ahead of us!! J&M are shooting in Mystic today, we're up in Vermont tomorrow and back down in good 'ole CT on Sunday so I wanted to jump in with a little short stack of tidbits on album design before I leave! Mary covered the work flow process here so I am going to tell you a little bit about my favorite features of the program we use to design them: Photojunction. The best part about Photojunction is how user friendly it is! I watched one little tutorial last year and was designing albums the same day!
One of my favorite features of the program is the ability to separate images into groups!! Usually I separate them into : Getting Ready Details, Getting Ready, Ceremony, Portraits, Reception Details, and Reception. These vary slightly by weddings, depending upon the days events. For instance, if there is a First Look, it always gets it's own folder. Catorgorizing them like this helps the design process move more quickly. I am way less likely to leave out an image that I want to use and the timeline of the day is pretty much set before I start designing!
I have a confession, I loooove album design, but some of the details of album design, can get a little tricky! :) Spacing key lines, centering images, etc is not my strong point. But! All I have to do is highlight the images and pick how large I want the key lines to be. Voila! No fuss! No muss! No matter how easy it is, there are still a whole lotta key lines in one album design. And if I had to go through and triple check every spread in every album I think it would give me quite the headache! For me, templates are a life saver!! Every page I have ever designed is saved as a template so if I want to use it again- I just pop it into the album I am currently designing and then fill it with images. Not having to reinvent the wheel is a HUGE time saver!!
Photojunction also makes it very simple to change the size of an image and to zoom in and out on an image. They have tons of preset sizes to choose from or you can just pull on an image to customize the size. There are no restrictions! The sky is the limit! :) What I really love about all of this, is how personalized your albums can get. The ability to design and customize every page is a huge asset!!
The last piece to the puzzle is exporting the album for our clients to review. It is WAY too easy! You can export right from Photojunction to AlbumExposure
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