Album Choices

[Sun Devil Rob]

Hello all. I've recently expanded my photography business to cover weddings on a regular basis, in addition to my already established portraiture work. I am looking for advice and recommendations on album vendors. I love the flexibility of Art Leather but I find the Montage software difficult to design with. I'm looking for the style of Art Leather with the design ease of consumer products such as Shutterfly. Any suggestions?

 

[Big Mike]

IMO, it's better to design them yourself, rather than use the sometimes limiting software they provide. I believe that most Album vendors will list the layout size or even give you a Photoshop template to use.

There are several companies that I'm hearing about these days. (I haven't used any of them yet though)

TAP
Asuka
Fin.a.o.
GraphiStudio
Collages.net

 

[JIP]

Wel you are going into a professional site so you should dexpect to have to use professional tools. You might try Albums Inc. and I know David Ziser had a grat program that he used for album layouts that had a very user-friendly interface.

Edit: The name of the program is Lumapix, here is a link I am not so sure of the quality of this link but it was from Ziser's site http://www.sellshareware.com/ProgramInfo.asp?AfID=18864&PrID=67070

And here is something from his site http://www.davidziser.com/educational_materials.htm#Digital%20Resource%20Kit

I used the demo version of the software and found it extremely user-friendly.