I offer square albums. Why square albums? 85% of the time you and I will photograph horizontally!
Things to consider when designing your album:
- Keep it simple! Chic modern designs never fail.
- Make each page unique. Give variance (and autonomy) to every page.
- Design it quickly! The faster your brides can relive their emotions, the more likely you will make a bigger sale.
If you open a square album, the two pages make a horizontal canvas for your pictures. Therefore, to do my pictures justice, I prefer square albums over the conventional vertical albums.
Flush Mount Album Designs
Please do not ever bombard your poor bride with 800+ online pictures to go through. Rather, first give them something that is beautifully designed and aesthetically pleasing [and already packaged].
- Week 1 – Flush mount album design (50+ pages) – Let the bride soak it in
- Week 2 – Online gallery | Discuss costs with bride
- Week 5 – Bind album and deliver
Do not deny it – I know that some of you still have clients from six months ago and they still have not picked out their pictures. Am I right? 
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Sample Album Designs
You could create them using Adobe Photoshop or InDesign with Bridge.
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Tutorial For Templates
Photoshop Instructions (sorry for the archaic video)
Indesign Instructions
Album Companies
Always check with your album company specifications, but all templates are designed with 250 DPI and a scalable size of 10×10 to any other square sizes (like 12×12 or 8×8). Some popular choices include WHCC, Leather Craftsmen, Bay Photo, Kiss, Madera, etc.
Cheers,
Lawrence Chan
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Good stuff. Thanks for giving us up an comers some great advice!
Good stuff. Thanks for giving us up an comers some great advice!
Hey we’d love to see you join the album design wiki – you’re free to promote your designs and templates as a member!
I just found your site via Andre Dieppa’s “The Big Picture” and love what you do here! Thanks so much for all the resources and tutorials!!
I LOVE my templates. I’m checking back often to see if you are going to release another batch. My customers love this classy and simple design. THANK YOU!!!
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These are sweet! Thank you so much.
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Love it!! thanks for everything you do!!! VERY Much appreciated
Nice samples of album design… Love it.. thanks for sharing.
Regards,
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Nice samples of album design… Love it.. thanks for sharing.
Regards,
Digital Photo Album Designing services
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I LOVE your templates and website!
Thank You!!!
I LOVE your templates and website!
Thank You!!!
Love your templates! I want to work with the templates before I invert in the $30 pack.
Love your templates! I want to work with the templates before I invert in the $30 pack.
You are amazingly awesome… I can’t wait to purchase some templates… you have just simplified my life by 2000x. I never understood the “templates” and would spend hours layering in the wrong order and whatnot…then using the marque and doing layer–>make new copy then deleting old layer omg.. you so helped me out i <3 you
great tutorial video, thanks so much for sharing things, very useful. Also makes sense about the square albums…especially when presented with beautiful layouts inside!
great tutorial video, thanks so much for sharing things, very useful. Also makes sense about the square albums…especially when presented with beautiful layouts inside!
just to clarify… the first time you give any pictures back to your bride, they’re in a designed album format? i like that idea.
do you post the pages online or have them come in to view? does she have any design input prioir to putting the pages together?
just to clarify… the first time you give any pictures back to your bride, they’re in a designed album format? i like that idea.
do you post the pages online or have them come in to view? does she have any design input prioir to putting the pages together?
Yes – I put all of the pictures online for the bride to soak it in. The first draft I use full creative license to design it how I envision it.
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Love your templates! Thank you!!!!
Quick question though..I am beginniner when it comes to photoshop. Let’s say I want to make the template smaller than 12X12…how would I go about doing that?!
Thanks!!
Love your templates! Thank you!!!!
Quick question though..I am beginniner when it comes to photoshop. Let’s say I want to make the template smaller than 12X12…how would I go about doing that?!
Thanks!!
Thanks SO much for posting these! I just started up my business (YAY!) and am figuring everything out.. The lab I use doesn’t have the best album templates – I want clean, modern! You are a lifesaver. Now, if I could only figure out the best ordering process…. haha
xo ~S
I love these templates, found them today. Can’t wait to purchase the whole bundle
These templates are great!! Thank you. I just purchased the additional package today. I do have one question – is it possible to change the mask color from white to an alternate color or image? Thanks again. This is the best site!
These templates are great!! Thank you. I just purchased the additional package today. I do have one question – is it possible to change the mask color from white to an alternate color or image? Thanks again. This is the best site!
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Thanks so much, I am working on doing my first sample album and KISS told me about your templates. I tried to do it on my own , but needed help. I just watched your video, and it helped soooooo much!!!
You’re a lifesaver!
Thanks so much, I am working on doing my first sample album and KISS told me about your templates. I tried to do it on my own , but needed help. I just watched your video, and it helped soooooo much!!!
You’re a lifesaver!
Thank you
I will use those templates to design my wedding albums and coffee table books.
After the blog, this is the second time you made my life easier !
Keep the good work rollin’ !!
I design my albums with Photoshop. Do you sell any templates as PSD files? I love your designs.
Kind regards,
Jean-Pierre Randazzo
I think if more photographers implement this style of marketing to brides there would be much less of a headache during the design process. I am sure it won’t appease every bride but as a designer I have spent more time rushing to get designs done to allow my photographer clients pass it along quickly to the bride so they can start the editing process and the ball slows down from there. I end up getting the job after the bride has already gotten antsy. The sooner I am involved designing the better….because then…we aren’t waiting on payment.
If you K *I*S*S (keep it simple) and QUICK I think everyone will see the advantage and we will all be more efficient while at the same time move on to the next client and so on…and this means increased earnings when you can spend less time closing out clients.
For Jean-Pierre who requested PSD files….that is the format I design.
I think if more photographers implement this style of marketing to brides there would be much less of a headache during the design process. I am sure it won’t appease every bride but as a designer I have spent more time rushing to get designs done to allow my photographer clients pass it along quickly to the bride so they can start the editing process and the ball slows down from there. I end up getting the job after the bride has already gotten antsy. The sooner I am involved designing the better….because then…we aren’t waiting on payment.
If you K *I*S*S (keep it simple) and QUICK I think everyone will see the advantage and we will all be more efficient while at the same time move on to the next client and so on…and this means increased earnings when you can spend less time closing out clients.
For Jean-Pierre who requested PSD files….that is the format I design.
Curious how to show and sell an album that is 50+ pages, when in my package I’ve pre sold a 10 or 20 page album. I’ve found it is easier to get brides to part with their money up front, and post selling is much harder. I think that’s a great way to present the images to the bride (I give them a slideshow of my favorites first) but I feel like if I lay out out an album for them that’s 2 1/2-5x bigger than the one they already paid for, that’s kind of sheisty. And a 50+ page album a la carte and included the packages would be way more expensive than I could charge for. How do you compensate for your time for an album that big?!