This is the blog for professional photographers, and those who aspire to be. Our aim is to help professional photographers build long-term, sustainable careers.
PJ Remix is about two things. First, delivering a great user experience is life or death. We’re Ubergeeks. We want – no we need – to be cool. So our mothers and girlfriends will respect us, and so you do too.
Second, we want to help you do business in the real world, without hassles. How boring is that? And how hard a point to get across! Sometimes we think it has all the sales appeal of day-old fish.
So when we came upon this story recently we jumped on it because it's so CLEAR.
Once upon a time a photographer designed some matted albums in InDesign because they didn’t like Photojunction. (PJ Retro, actually - phew!). Then the layouts were converted to PDF, the order was written manually and everything was sent to the vendor.
And my point? This vendor, and this vendor’s lab, can’t handle PDFs. To process the order they would need to redesign the album (in Photojunction!) so they could cut the mats. InDesign doesn’t know albums. PDFs can’t cut mats. Plus, as we said, this lab can’t print PDFs (some can, most can’t). That's the kind of fundamental misalignment that Photojunction won’t allow.
Non-compliance (and "client education") are among the biggest problems facing all vendors. Publishers and printers of ALL sorts constantly receive stuff they can’t send to production because the work doesn’t comply with their specs. Photojunction looks to solve that problem as far as albums are concerned.
We know we’re v1.0, but that's what PJ Remix is about.
[...] One of the major problems album manufacturers can have is when the orders they receive are not “ready for production”. Here’s a great example. [...]
