I've gathered enough gongs now to qualify for an opinion on album design. Last week I was a judge for the Australian Professional Photography Awards at PMA in Melbourne. This was an honour I shared with the lovely Jo Grams, Jerry Ghionis, Jackie Chan, Yervant and other luminaries. Several things became apparent: 1) Some authors treated the album as a set of individual prints, mixing black and whites with colours, verticals with horizontals, with blatant disregard for the influence of those images on each other. 2) Some authors were hypnotised by the ability to apply a filter to create a look ... To View More >>

Photojunction's integration with albumexposure just keeps getting better. albumexposure now offers you the ability add music to accompany a client's album design, from within Photojunction. Just select the 'Proof with albumexposure' option from the Album menu in Photojunction, then on the AE start screen, choose the 'Upload Music file' option from the 'Select Song' drop down list. Cheers, Nigel PS music files need to be in MP3 format. To View More >>

You can now choose in the Photojunction Preferences to have the Problem Reporter report on any problems in your album design when you create a slideshow or proof sheets from it. Why's that useful? Well you'll need any problems fixed before you order the album, so if you're going to create a slideshow or proof sheets of it, you can be sure they're perfect too, and exactly as per the album. This option is set on as a default but you can turn it off by heading to the Preferences and unchecking 'Report problems on exporting proof layouts and slideshows'. Easy. Cheers, Nigel To View More >>

There was a time when the saying was, "Never trust anyone over 30!" But hey, check out my picture – that was then and this is now. Seriously folks, we were talking to Jerry Tomko at WPPI, and I thought ... this man has so much sensible stuff to share. So Heather and I took him up to the suite, sat him down with wine and nibbles and interviewed him around a single mic. Jerry is now a valued client, but he used to work as a rep for Art Leather. Here he talks about teaching people how to sell, why to sell albums (and frames), pre-designing an album in the days before digital, and more. Don't miss To View More >>

Jerry Tomko is a long time friend who comes to mind whenever we think of heavy Photojunction users. He designs and sells a huge number of albums each year and has been using the software for as long as we can remember. 1) What impact does Photojunction have on your album design workflow? Photojunction has had a huge impact on my album design workflow. I have always been a firm believer in predesign - and in wedding albums, and I truly believe you should be able to see what you are purchasing. Even back in the film days, I would always present to the client what the album would look like before To View More >>