Wedding Album Creation

So i shot my first wedding last month, images are delivered and te client is thrilled. No better feeling!!

Now I'm going to have to create and album. I intend to use a color lab to print my album and from what i hear they require PS files.

I have heard of Labprints for album creation. Does anyone know of another system, software? I don't want to use Blurb or Mpix.

I expect to pay for this and i'll definately use it more than once! I have Parent Albums and a Mitzvah coming up too.

Wedding related questions probably belong in the wedding forum.

I use PhotoJunctionfor my album creation, it's free but there's a learning curve. You can use a custom supplier resource to set up the page type/output specs you need, then it will generate to psd files for you. From there you can do anything else you like, I typically do a little retouching and sharpening on the final psd files before you convert them to jpeg for printing/submission. Read the PJ tutorial, watch their videos. The first album will take a fair bit of time, but after that you'll get quicker and quicker.

There are free templates on the PhotoJunction websites, you can buy templates, or you can make your own. I googled for wedding albums, found pages I liked, then created a few templates based on those.

You might like to use PJ and KISS Wedding Albums, they're meant to be a good product and good value. I personally don't like square albums, I like landscape albums, I use Queensberry albums but there's a fee to "join" which covers their starter kit. I hear good things about Finao as well.

If you want album critique post a thread once you've designed a few pages, then send me a PM if you'd like my feedback as I don't look in the photo sharing forums - i've designed dozens of albums, so many i've lost count. Most peoples first albums are awful, so don't design the whole thing then ask for critique, because you'll probably want to start again anyway. The principles I go for are simplicity and flow, and I avoid overlaid images, except for very faint background images sometimes. You might be able to find posts I made a while ago in album critique threads.

Wow Tim. I'm checking out Photojunction. It looks so good. flexable, powerful...FREE...what​'s the catch??

There's no catch. It used to be a paid app, then for some reason they made it free. You have to register with PhotoJunction (same company as Queensberry) but there's no obligation to spend any money. You might get an occasional email from them or something, I don't know, I use Queensberry so I get their emails anyway.