Following these instructions will ensure you receive your album design as soon as possible!
1. Become a new client! Fill out the new client worksheet here. I will verify you are a professional photographer at this step.
2. Due to the number of new clients I receive, once you let me know you’re ready to send in an album I will set up an ftp account and send you an email to notify you of your username and password.
3. Ready for your new or next album design? Now’s a great time to review the album design styles: organic, color-blocked, and green label. If you aren’t sure what will work best, you’re welcome to let me choose the design style that fits best with your images.
4. Prepare your images. If you’re exporting from a program such as Lightroom, export your jpegs at a quality level of 75-85. If you’re saving them as jpegs in Photoshop, save them at a level 9 or 10 jpeg. PLEASE only send me jpegs!
5. Organize your images. Please first ensure your images are in a chronological filename order. An easy numbering system goes like file001.jpg, file002.jpg and so on. If your files all have different names and are not in chronological order, I could easily miss an image in the design.
- If you’ve chosen a Basic level service, send the images you’d like in the album. Please send a few extras of detail images, but for the most part only send images you want in the album. You’re welcome to make a separate folder of must have images. Please note, if you send lots of extra images and your design ends up averaging more than 3 images per spread, there is a $50 surcharge. Images will not be adjusted, edited, or color-corrected.
- If you’ve chosen a Premium level service, you have two options. You can either follow the instructions for the Basic level above, or you can upload a folder of many images and I will choose which images go into the album. Some clients send the entire wedding. A “must have” folder is helpful if there are definite images that must make it into the album. I will color-correct images so they match other images on a spread, retouch obvious facial marks, and other minor editing. If you’d like specific editing, please make a note in a txt or pdf file and upload that with the images.
6. Log in to your ftp account and upload your images.
7. When your images have FINISHED uploading, go to the new album worksheet here. Fill in your options, and send the form to me. If you send this form before your images have finished uploading and I start downloading them, I will not receive all the images. This means your design might end in the middle of the ceremony! When I receive the new album worksheet, I will add your album design into the queue.
8. Within 7 business days, I will send you an email with your instructions on how to view your album design. There are very important instructions on how to make and request revisions, and any requests that don’t comply with those instructions may not be changed. Again, these instructions are to ensure the speedy delivery of your revised album design.
9. You may send this information to your client and have them request changes themselves, or you may request changes on your own. Either way, I will receive an email letting me know you’re ready for me to revise.
10. In about 5 business days, I will send out an email letting you know I have made your revision requests. If you’ve chosen the Basic service level, this is when I will upload your .psd files to the ftp server for you to download. If you’ve chosen the Premium level, you can continue to make revisions or approve your album design. Once you approve it, I will upload the .psd files.
11. If you prefer a disc sent to you with the final files rather than downloading them, you must make a special request. There is no charge. I mail discs out once a week, on Friday.
12. That’s it! That’s your album design coming to you! If you have any feedback after your book design, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
