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Modern Album for a Modern Wedding

adminbritney — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:35:18 +0000

With the new year I’m spending some time archiving older albums, and I just came across this lovely album for Amelia Soper that I designed back in May. I can’t believe I didn’t share this back then!

Stats: Green Label design style, 40 pages, 10×10

A few favorite spreads

Elegant & Simple Green Label Album Design

adminbritney — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:14:11 +0000

I’ve been designing albums for dMdC Photography for a while now and I’ve seen quite a few album designs come and go, but this is one of my favorites! It’s filled with beautiful portraits, pretty details, and great moments all in a design with clean lines.

Stats: 12×12, 68 images, 32 pages, Green Label design style

Want to see the whole design?

Charming New Album

adminbritney — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:19:16 +0000

I just completed this charming album design for Katie Anderson Photography. It’s a lovely set of images that she sent over and was a very successful first album with this new client!

Stats: 30 pages, 81 images, 10×10 Green Label design style

Pre-designing albums works! Proof in the pudding…

adminbritney — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:26:16 +0000

When at photography trade-shows and workshops, one of the most common things I hear from photographers is that they don’t want to take the time to pre-design albums because the clients might not buy them or that they don’t want to outsource a pre-design for the same reason. I have a knee-jerk reaction to this, primarily because I know from experience that it does work!

As most of my Willow Album Design clients know, I’m also a photographer. I deal with wedding and portrait clients on a regular basis. When I pre-design a portrait album, guestbook, or wedding album, I sell them about 90% of the time – those are numbers that don’t lie. Do I have the occasional “wasted” album? Yes, I do. But if you average that time out across the albums I do sell, it’s more than worth it.

A great, hard numbers example is a guestbook filled with engagement images. Personally, I use Vision Art Albums 8×8 and 10×10 albums for this purpose. If you go with their book cloth covers, they’re very reasonably pric guestbooks ed, though I use the regular image wraparound covers at the next tier of pricing. Last year, Turn Loose the Art sold a whopping two guestbooks. This year, we pre-designed a guestbook for most of our engagement sessions (a few slipped between the cracks and never happened). Since May, we have sold eight, and that’s even with a few of our engagement sessions occurring too close to the wedding date to fit in product printing time.

Would you like to quadruple your guestbook sales, too?

Sample Album Season

adminbritney — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:49:07 +0000

As summer winds to a close, most clients in North America have a whole slew of new weddings they’ve recently completed and it’s time to start thinking about updating their studio samples! Brent Foster is one of these photographers and chose a beautiful wedding with a great set of portraits to showcase.

Stats: 12×12, 30 pages, 54 images, Green Label design style

Dotted in Blue Album Design

adminbritney — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:36:09 +0000

A slightly different take on the color-blocked album design, I used dotted lines rather than solid color blocks to accent the images. The blue fits in perfectly with the couple’s blue and green decor and wedding design. Images courtesy Turn Loose the Art.

Stats: 10×15, 82 images, 56 pages, Color-Blocked design style

A few favorite spreads:

The entire album design is viewable using Fundy’s awesome proofing system. Lately, I’ve also been using Finao’s iPad app to proof more realistic covers to our clients as well.

Green Label Album Design Example

adminbritney — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:22:19 +0000

First! We’re doing some updates to the forms on the website today, so if you’re getting errors when submitting the new client form OR the new album design form, please let me know immediately! The good news is that after this is all done, automatic billing will be in place to streamline the album design process – no more waiting for me to invoice you. I’ll also have confirmation emails going to each client to verify your form went through with all your selected information.

Next! Dave Richards sent in a lovely album to me last week and I just proofed this brightly colored book for him this morning. It’s a great example of the Green Label album design style.

Stats: 12×12, 30 pages, 67 images, Green Label design style

A few favorite spreads:

Lemon Yellow Album Design Style Mixing

adminbritney — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:12:29 +0000

Miguel Pola sent over an entire wedding of images for me to select, color-match, and design into a beautiful album.

Stats: 12×12, 38 pages, 84 images, a mix of Color-blocked and Organic styles.

Album with Pink Accents

adminbritney — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:11:46 +0000

Desiree at dMdC Photography sent this gorgeous set of images over a few weeks ago and I love some of the spreads in this album!

Stats: Organic design, 10×10, 40 pages, 91 images

A few favorite spreads of mine:

Traditional Scottish Wedding Album

adminbritney — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:38:52 +0000

I’ve been loving the albums Steven Seymour and I are making lately! He sends me a great set of images, prefers I pick most of the images for the design, and loves a fresh, modern, and clean wedding album layout. This album is no exception.

Stats: 14×10, 56 pages, 104 images, Green Label Design

To see more of Steven’s great work, check out the Willow Album Design Facebook page! In the meantime, a few favorite spreads from this album: