New Album - A labor of love

[LoremIpsum]

I just finished the layout for our Client using Pictobooks as vendor and the layout will be on 12x12" design spreads. Let me know What you think - enjoy!

They were so much in love it was easy to capture their special day. :D

More info on my albums On this page (http://www.lamphotography.com/weddings/)(Then Click on "albums" navigation button)

Full 40 pages album design Click Here (http://www.lamphotography.com/weddings/album_preview/crystal_frank/)

http://www.lamphotography.com/weddings/album_preview/crystal_frank/1.jpg

http://www.lamphotography.com/weddings/album_preview/crystal_frank/13.jpg

http://www.lamphotography.com/weddings/album_preview/crystal_frank/20.jpg

[dandan]

Im not sure whats with the photo on the right side of the second one, but the layout of all of them is nice. What sort of book/album will this be in?

[daclozer]

Your work is amazing.. Thank you for sharing

[Pomona2006]

Nice work! Love the work you did on this!

I must say I noticed the same thing as dandan - that guy seems to be making weird face.

[stunt4949]

Awesome!

I love the seamless blend in the background on the first and how you blended the back layers on the second page.

The last page is my favorite.

Great work!

[reefergal]

Those are great. Nice work!

[rwong2k]

very nice!
thanks for sharing your layout

[Nzshrimper]

i like the layouts very creative... the only thing i might want to change is the 3 page image that is across what looks like the page fold.... when bound that image may get lost in the fold of the page...

[_aravena]

That's amazing...

It's no wonder albums are so expensive,t he time it takes. I'm working on collage type pages to get some practice in, I can't imagine doing something like this. How long did this take? Maybe i this was my sole job be a lot easier than juggling classes and another job.

[Banno]

Those few are fantastic! I'm sure that they will be very pleased with your results. Congratulations!

Taking a look at the rest of the book on your page shows that you have definitely captured enough posed images to really separate your work from any video (unlike what has been stated earlier) and you should be very happy with yourself. I only hope that I could pull off such a nice keepsake for a couples big day :)

[sidx001]

Incredible work with the album and the pictures are terrific! Wonderful captures, plus some wonderful ideas for me to try next time!! :D

[tuandang79]

Very nice work loremlpsum.

[trailrider]

Interesting choice of brides.

[ana1976]

can you please share with us what software do you use to design and print those?:)

[kvt]

Great work! I love the album! The only pic I don't understand is the top left on on spread 8a...it looks like you caught her blinking. Overall though, you did an amazing job of telling the wedding day story through great photos!

[Stephanie Miller]

beautiful album, love how you captured all the emotions of the full day of the wedding. They will be very pleased with your work

[jodyellis]

Wonderful album, great style and flow! Thanks for sharing.

[moeronn]

Great captures and fantastic album design.

[A_Gurl]

I think you did a very good job on these...as well as the other pages in the album on your site...
question - what company do you go through for the books and/or printing of them?

[LoremIpsum]

Thanks everyone for your excellent feedback!

Here are some info on my albums:

- There's definately a good reason for why these wedding book cost so much money. Takes forever to design and vendor wants an arm and leg per book.

- I keep it simple. Fancy masking and blending for background images only. I only heavy stroke an image to keep it separated from background. Keep mumber of images per spread down to a minimum.

- I'm using this vendor www.pictobooks.com (http://www.pictobooks.com) (US Made). Their wedding books are amazing. It's an album that need to be seen and held. Quality is top notch. I've seen quite a few albums company out there. To me the quality of pictobooks is way better than Graphistudio. I do like how Graphistudio book comes in a briefcase and it's Italian made. But built quality when comparing side by side is obvious. Ok enough of bashing graphistudio.

- The layout is 11"x11" at 254DPI (recommended by vendor). Each of my album is a one off design. No template. This album was created in Photoshop CS3 straight into high-res. I find that each wedding yeild such different image compositions it's harder to confine them to a template. Final PSD file was approximately 1.6GB.. Each of the 20 Photoshop layers are flattened and save as non-compressed jpegs file before ftp-ing to vendor.

- If working in high-res, a fast machine is a must. I'm running dual quad-core with 32GB ram on Vista 64-bit. Yes I am a designer/photographer and I prefer PC! LOL

Here are some of my other albums design:
http://www.lamphotography.com/weddings/album_preview/amanda_joseph/
http://www.lamphotography.com/weddings/album_preview/marysia_rich/

[LoremIpsum]

Great work! I love the album! The only pic I don't understand is the top left on on spread 8a...it looks like you caught her blinking. Overall though, you did an amazing job of telling the wedding day story through great photos!

Interesting perspective - On 8a she was taking a deep breath and closed her eyes to relax before the walk. ;)

[shutter_blitz]

Very, very good!

[ana1976]

so I guess that we have no luck in obtaining such beautiful wedding album templates or designs..:(