We are looking into doing in house album design. I was currently looking at the Yervant Software, the price is too steep. Any other suggestions, let say alittle cheaper that do the same thing.

Try the demo version of Lumapix. I love it!


Chuck

Tried Luma Pix didn't like it too well.

Have you looked at Lab Prints??? I use the software for all our albums and LOVE IT!!!

Here is a link to the site: Lab Prints

Check it out...

Brea

Gary Fong's actions are pretty slick.

Or if you have the full suit of CS2 products you can use InDesign - just get Kevin Swans tutorial and you'll be all set.

Check out InDesign - it integrates seamlessly with Photoshop and it is the de-facto page layout standard in the world today. It's used to layout almost every book and magazine you see today and there's good reason for it. I don't think you'll find a faster, more stable and more industry standard layout system anywhere.

I second Swan's tutorial. Totally worth it - you'll be an album designer at full speed in under an hour.

Is this true now? I know that for many years (and up to a few years ago), Quark was still, by far, the industry standard layout program, so now you have me wondering if InDesign finally passed it up. There were a few periodicals and publishing houses transitioning to InDesign, but Quark was so embedded in so many workflows, few folks wanted to switch. I've used both, and honestly couldn't understand the resistance, since InDesign has so many great features that Quark is lacking.



Ray, I'm curious to know what you didn't like about Lumapix. Were you using the Pro version?

have you tried PHOTJUNCTION? It's really easy to use, but does have limitations.

Once a basica layout is made in photojunction, it can be exported to a layered PSD file. At that point, you can do all the fine tuning and tweaking that you want to finish it off.

T