First flush mount album

Please let me know what you think of my first wedding album design flushmount, they are 10x10 pages .

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9 http://i2.photobucket.​com …27/GertrudeLoui​se/9-9.jpg

10 http://i2.photobucket.​com …/GertrudeLouise​/10-10.jpg

11 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/11-1.jpg

12 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/12-1.jpg

13 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/13-1.jpg

14 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/14-1.jpg

15 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/15-1.jpg

16 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/16-1.jpg

17 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/17-1.jpg

18 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/18-1.jpg

19 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/19-1.jpg

20 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/20-1.jpg

21 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/21-1.jpg

22 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/22-1.jpg

23 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/23-1.jpg

24 http://i2.photobucket.​com …7/GertrudeLouis​e/24-1.jpg]

25 ]http://i2.photobucket​.com/albums/y27/Gertru​deLouise/25-1.jpg


26 ]http://i2.photobucket​.com/albums/y27/Gertru​deLouise/26-1.jpg]

27 ]http://i2.photobucket​.com/albums/y27/Gertru​deLouise/27-27.jpg]

28 ]http://i2.photobucket​.com/albums/y27/Gertru​deLouise/28.jpg]

29 ]http://i2.photobucket​.com/albums/y27/Gertru​deLouise/29-1.jpg]

30 ]http://i2.photobucket​.com/albums/y27/Gertru​deLouise/30-1.jpg]

31]http://i2.photobuck​et.com/albums/y27/Gert​rudeLouise/31.jpg]

Thanks for looking I still need to finish the last page.

I love the photos but I think some of the pages with a lot of images seema little busy, 10 by 10 with 9 images on the page means they will be about 2 inches or so across, that is very small. The detail you see in laying it out by being able to zoom in isn't available when looking at the static page. If there isn't concern for amount of pages I would spread it out more.

gr8 work man.....
especially the way u tell the story

nice

not quite sure about page 3... at a glance it felt like i was being given the middle finger

page 22 my favourite!!! awesome!

Suggestions:
- page 25: remove the ship on the horizon
- some of your image frames (strokes) have rounded corners, some square...decide on one style.
- pages 28: stay with the same size stroke (frame) on all the images in a page
- page 14, 26, 29: consider fading (reducing the opacity) on background images

Good luck.

On the ones with b&w or selective coloring, I would make the larger one the b&w/selective coloring and the smaller ones in color or vs. versa.

Oh, and make the strokes around the photos smaller. It makes a big difference. Nice work!

I love your images, but I think the design of the album is too busy. The only pages I really like are the pages where one image take up the whole page.

You can assume the people who have said "great work" are blind. It's not great work, I find it quite ugly, and there's no way i'd show it to a customer. The photos are decent enough, but very formal mostly. I only looked at the first 8 pages, the links to some of the later ones are incorrect/broken. You should have posted double pages so we can see how each opening looks, rather than have us try to work out which two match up.

Honestly you've done the same thing that most people do, and post up here, but you haven't done a search and read comments people have made about others albums. I would suggest you do a search for thread with "album" in the title if you want my general critique on first albums, the same will apply to your first album. Examples here and here.

My quick general thoughts (do a search for my full thoughts for most peoples albums):
- Too busy.
- Ugly, ugly frames. Some too fancy, some way too bold. The big white one that looks like a 50 year old mirror has to be completely removed.
- Use a thin 1px or 2px white stroke around images, not a massive wide marker.
- I rarely like images overlaid over others.
- The pages with 9 images - they're too close vertically.
- Try to avoid selective color, it will date really quickly. ie it already looks dated, in a few years it'll look even more dated.

That's all for now. When you redesign post again in this thread and I may give more critique, if you want it.

tim wrote in post #4293408
You can assume the people who have said "great work" are blind. It's not great work, I find it quite ugly, and there's no way i'd show it to a customer. The photos are decent enough, but very formal mostly. I only looked at the first 8 pages, the links to some of the later ones are incorrect/broken. You should have posted double pages so we can see how each opening looks, rather than have us try to work out which two match up.

Honestly you've done the same thing that most people do, and post up here, but you haven't done a search and read comments people have made about others albums. I would suggest you do a search for thread with "album" in the title if you want my general critique on first albums, the same will apply to your first album. Examples here and here.

My quick general thoughts (do a search for my full thoughts for most peoples albums):
- Too busy.
- Ugly, ugly frames. Some too fancy, some way too bold. The big white one that looks like a 50 year old mirror has to be completely removed.
- Use a thin 1px or 2px white stroke around images, not a massive wide marker.
- I rarely like images overlaid over others.
- The pages with 9 images - they're too close vertically.
- Try to avoid selective color, it will date really quickly. ie it already looks dated, in a few years it'll look even more dated.

That's all for now. When you redesign post again in this thread and I may give more critique, if you want it.

This is a very good crit and much can be learned from a crit like this if you don't take it personal and see it for what it is "Constructive Criticism".

This is how you learn, and everyone has room for improvement. Tim gave you some good pointers on what to look at/for

Maybe I will stick to just one 10 x 10 on a page. of the full image