Wedding Album Design--PS or Software package

[anthony conoway]

I was just curious as to how you all are putting together your flush
mount wedding albums, are you doing it all free hand in PS or are you
using some other form of software. I would also be interested in knowing
how long it's taking, especially free hand.
I just finished up completing a album and though it looked great it took a
little bit to do it, and I'm not a novice PS user either. Sometimes the software albums I see look cheesy or cheap
looking.
What are you guys doing?
Thanks Anthony

Oh, sorry, My Bad, I forgot to check to see if this was anywhere on here.
I would still love to hear from you guys though.

[Michael J. Plumeyer]

QuickMats Album

Michael

[waldo berry]

YSI (You Select It)

Takes me about 30 minutes to do an album

[Don Hughes]

Michael, do you have a link for Quick Mats? Thanks in advance, Don

[Guest]

I just looked at YSI, they look great!!!

[Guest]

Zookbinder's Digi-Mats v.2

~Gregg

[Brian McDaniel]

Jorgenson software is just incredible!

Very easy to use, you can make your own mats, edit them, etc etc, even export them to use on the next album.

http://www.jorgensen.com.au/

[Mark Reimer]

Digimatz & Labprints (which use digimatz templates)

[Guest]

We use photoshop with some border templets

Chris

[Tracey Rapp]

I Just did one yesterday in Labprints 26 sides took me all freegging day! well 5 hours anyway.

[Dave Saunders]

YSI for the initial layout and then fine tune in PS

[Douglas Gunder]

I Just did one yesterday in Labprints 26 sides took me all freegging day! well 5 hours anyway.

I do 26 sides in Labprints in about 2 1/2 hours or less. It will get faster as you work with it.

[Tracey Rapp]

I do 26 sides in Labprints in about 2 1/2 hours or less. It will get faster as you work with it.

Oh gosh I hope so.....Maybe I need to put the images into groups before I start workting with them or soemthing.

Only think I don't like about labprints is that you can not rotate the image within a frame.

[Paul Bierman]

We use Millers Lab with the leagend Album takes about 2 hours than we send it to the lab and it is ready to go to the customer when it gets back takes about 3 days for them to print and assemble them they have done a great job for us Paul

[Douglas Gunder]

Only think I don't like about labprints is that you can not rotate the image within a frame.

I think I know what your saying. You can rotate the frame but not the image in that frame. You would go to Photoshop or image editor if you needed to rotate the image and crop it. I have all my images pretty much like I want them before adding all images in Labprints. Or at least the way the customer saw the images. The images are numbered in sequence so when I make the first page all the first images of the wedding are in front of me. Then I just keep scrooling down as I go build the next page. You don't have to but I just do. Check the movies on the Labprints site for help. Not sure what lab you use but at my lab there is a guy that really has a good understanding of Labprints for help. Back channel a message and I will forward his name. Normally I don't like these types of programs but this one seems to work for me here for now. I don't use Labprints for all my ordering but album design I like it. Wish you luck.