Wedding Album Design Software

[RebelXT]

Hi guys,

I'm looking for people's wants and opinions when it comes to Wedding Album Design Software. I've tried Photojunction, however I find it too buggy and that crappy small design screen really ticks me off.

So, I've decided to make my own I work for a software development company and I've spoken to a few of my friends who are willing to work on the project.

I need your opinion of what you would like to see in this type of software. If you are using photojunction, let me know what you like about it, what you dont like, what you would like improved, etc, etc.

I'm working at the requirements at the moment, so any comments from you will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...

[tim]

Honestly, that's a massive job, I expect that the project duration would be measured in man-years to do it well (i'm a software developer as well). Unless you're prepared to invest that amount of time i'd suggest you look again at the available tools. PhotoJunction is being rewritten from the ground up starting some time this year, and i'd suggest that given their size and number of users, they can invest a lot more time and money in it that a small group of developers could. I was actually trying to get onto the development team, since it's possible it'll be in New Zealand, but I doubt that'll happen.

I use PhotoJunction, and you're right, it's not pretty, it's got a small window, and it's kinda buggy. On the upside, it's cheap with my Queensberry membership, it actually does work fine once you work out its quirks, and the support is very responsive. The latest beta isn't bad. I have it generated psd files, then I tweak them manually. I make Queensberry albums and Asukabooks like that.

FotoFusion is a good piece of software, the only problem is the studio version is about $500 - but if you're a software developer you should know that time is money, and they time you'll spend will be huge compared with that cost.

If you go ahead with the project anyway... i'd suggest you get FotoFusion and copy that.

[mizuno]

Yervant sells the software he uses to create his award-winning albums: www.yervant.com.au

[MichelleM]

Photoshop...

I create my own pages from scratch.

[RebelXT]

Thanks for that Tim.

I'll give FotoFusion a go and see what it has to offer.

I'm not doing this for the money I'll get from it, I just like developing software. Plus I get to do it the way I want to...

I think it will be fun, i wont lose anything giving it a go.

Plus Tim, if you're interested we can always use more people developing different modules.

Cheers!

[Ed Kanney]

Just get hooked up w/a good pro lab. Most offer decent/easy to use album design software free to their customers.

[tim]

Originally Posted by RebelXT

Thanks for that Tim.

I'll give FotoFusion a go and see what it has to offer.

I'm not doing this for the money I'll get from it, I just like developing software. Plus I get to do it the way I want to...

I think it will be fun, i wont lose anything giving it a go.

Plus Tim, if you're interested we can always use more people developing different modules.

Cheers!

Not likely - I do enough of that during the day! PhotoJunction combined with Photoshop to tweak it works well enough for me, then there's the new one, then there's FF, then I might consider it! Have fun

[crsouser]

Originally Posted by RebelXT

Hi guys,

I'm looking for people's wants and opinions when it comes to Wedding Album Design Software. I've tried Photojunction, however I find it too buggy and that crappy small design screen really ticks me off.

So, I've decided to make my own I work for a software development company and I've spoken to a few of my friends who are willing to work on the project.

I need your opinion of what you would like to see in this type of software. If you are using photojunction, let me know what you like about it, what you dont like, what you would like improved, etc, etc.

I'm working at the requirements at the moment, so any comments from you will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks...

I know other people have already commented similarily... but I am also a software developer gone more project manager over the last few years. Honestly unless you can offer some new and innovating and easy way to put together albums, already have a skillset and the experience in photo manipulation software and management, and think you can bring a product to market at a cheap cost that you can sell in sufficent quanities I think that may be bit of an undertaking in a market that is 'not saturated' but has quite a few experienced competitors in already.

That is of course unless you are some overly geeky software developers with nothing better to do than code. I was that way at one point, but at this point I much rather go out and shoot photos of my lawn or the rocks in my driveway or random cars going down the street than write code when I am not at my day job and at home right now.

I may want to become an uber coder one day.. but honestly I enjoy managing the projects, concept development, and QA'n software than I do the actually developing the code/software these days.

Christopher

[razyl]

Hi all,

Does anyone have an apple computer? Just wondering if the above software runs well on macs.

Darryn

[tim]

PhotoJunction runs on macs better than PCs I think.

[jacksnoopy@live.com]

Hello,

has anyone heard of Powerpix, I am using the demo version of the software. Printing lab I use insists I go for the software. Can someone please let me know the cost and ureviews. Cheers