Two weeks ago I started talking about my album workflow for photographers with albums. I get TONS of questions from photographers about this. Truth is, albums really are a lot of work. It is so rewarding to watch them come together for my clients and tell the WHOLE story of the day, but I have a system that works very well, and is repeated for each client.
This next paragraph is mostly for photographers, and answering the questions I have recently received: Because we return a ton of images to the client after the wedding, I go through and make an initial album design for my clients. I began using Project Workroom for my clients to review the design and make changes. Let me say, it has been amazing! Check them out! I use Adobe InDesign to design the layout of my albums. It has drastically decreased my design time … and is so much more fluid than Photoshop. If you are not using InDesign, you should be. I use the software now for my marketing materials, album designs, business cards. It is just a fabulous Graphic Design software! It also allows you to make templates that you will use again. My clients make their changes, submit them to me, and the album is sent to print!
As I said last week, I make my albums no nonsense designs. The images speak for themselves on clean white backgrounds. I also hate to cram too many images on a page, as I feel it gets distracting from the story. Here are a few recent album spreads.
That’s it … It’s my 2 cents on album design. I hope it answered a lot of you photographer’s questions.
