Wedding companion albums.

One downside of PJ is you have to design for an exact size, not a ratio. You can design large then use Photoshop to shrink it down, but PJ won't do it for you. I guess one reason is the crop line thingy on the outside is absolute, not relative (I forget the proper term).

tim wrote in post #13083596
One downside of PJ is you have to design for an exact size, not a ratio. You can design large then use Photoshop to shrink it down, but PJ won't do it for you. I guess one reason is the crop line thingy on the outside is absolute, not relative (I forget the proper term).

You can. I've done it. Went from a 12x12 to a 10x10 just this last week. Just go back to the that first page where you set up the album and change the size. You may need to rearrange a little on the pages but it goes a lot faster then just redesigning an album from scratch.

PeaceFire wrote in post #13084694
You can. I've done it. Went from a 12x12 to a 10x10 just this last week. Just go back to the that first page where you set up the album and change the size. You may need to rearrange a little on the pages but it goes a lot faster then just redesigning an album from scratch.

Oh, interesting! Ta

One reason why I really like FotoFusion is the final output step. You specify the final output resolution and ppi you want and it will export it accordingly. But the best part is it's final sharpening algorithm which is always optimized for your size and ppi. I'm not sure what it does or uses, but any prints or albums made from FotoFusion output has such excellent final print clarity... better than I can achieve myself in photoshop or lightroom. I've been trying to figure it out for years but just cannot match it.

My packages have either an A3 landscape book or A3 portrait lay-flat book (16.5 x 11.7). Parent books are smaller copies of the couple's book sized A4 (11.7 x 8.3).

Personally I love the panoramic spreads on the landscape format which are 3:1 approx. e.g.

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Duplicates are so cheap that I don't offer a smaller size for parent albums. I push hard for the 14x10" Pressbook. It's my favourite product with nettuno page stock. So companion albums are exactly the same, because I'm making a good profit from the original, so that I can pass on the discount offered by Queensberry onto the clients. I don't see the point in smaller companion albums. They just don't do justice.

dche5390 wrote in post #13089024
Duplicates are so cheap that I don't offer a smaller size for parent albums. I push hard for the 14x10" Pressbook. It's my favourite product with nettuno page stock. So companion albums are exactly the same, because I'm making a good profit from the original, so that I can pass on the discount offered by Queensberry onto the clients. I don't see the point in smaller companion albums. They just don't do justice.

They'd still be twice the price of the smaller albums, maybe more (we won't discuss actual prices here in a public forum). Plus selling them too cheap devalues them in the eyes of the customer.

It's usually the B&G who pay for the albums for their parents, and with all the other wedding expenses I doubt many would pay what'd i'd charge for another large album. I've never offered them though, so I don't know for sure.

Perhaps it's just me, but I think parents deserve something better than a tiny book which doesn't do any justice to them or the photos.

I choose press books because they're more economical from a consumer POV. Would love the album range but to be profitable, I'd scare away even my mid-high end market.

Going from PJ to Indesign, I smashed my head against the wall. So different ...