*ALBUMS*

Filed under: JRS Fav Things!, Photo Gossip!, Tips and Tricks! — jess at 12:02 pm on Monday, May 28, 2007

I get lots of questions about my use of Pictage’s album designer…

So, I thought it might be helpful to share some before and after designs from Pictage! To explain, I start my albums by having Pictage do an initial design with 150 images! I use it as sort of a spring board and take the design that they come up with and adjust about 75% of it! The reason that I do that is because I have found that I save LOTS of time by having them do the initial work of putting the main structure of the album together…and then put about 1-2 hours of adjustments into the album! When I was doing the albums 100% by hand, I was putting up to 2 DAYS into them….so this is a GREAT solution for me! I LOVE IT and even better, the Pictage design is 100% FREEEEE!!! :)

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES:

ALBUM 1:

CLICK HERE for the Original Design

CLICK HERE for the JRS Edit

ALBUM 2:

CLICK HERE for the Original Design

CLICK HERE for the JRS Edit

ALBUM 3:

CLICK HERE for the Original Design

CLICK HERE for the JRS Edit

I honestly believe that this is an incredible service that Pictage offers!! I’m ALL about outsourcing..especiallly when it’s FREE…and I would highly recommend looking into this service if you don’t have a great album design system! CLICK HERE to view the order form and read info about getting started!!!

*****EDIT…..YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PICTAGE ACCOUNT TO VIEW THE ALBUMS! SOOO Sorry…I forgot to mention that!! I just assume the whole world uses Pictage….so I didn’t even think to mention it until I just received a few emails about it!!!

9 Comments »

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Comment by Brenda

May 28, 2007 @ 8:26 pm

Hey Jess, when I click on your links for the before and afters it takes me to a login screen. ???

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Comment by drago

May 28, 2007 @ 9:12 pm

yes, for a login and password

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Comment by Amanda W.

May 30, 2007 @ 8:59 am

I love the albums and your “special touch”. I just LOVE the wedding that the guys wore the striped ties, that was such a beautiful wedding!!!

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Comment by DJ

May 30, 2007 @ 1:42 pm

Beautiful job Jess!!!

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Comment by Brian H

May 30, 2007 @ 4:12 pm

Love the album pages on here. The photos and the layout are excellent. Can’t view the before and after pages since I am not a Pictage member. But the pages are here are great.

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Comment by Angela

May 31, 2007 @ 2:22 pm

these desings look great….doesn’t look like you had to do too many adjustments…..

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Comment by Sinead

June 1, 2007 @ 8:53 am

I want to see…but I don’t want to give your lab my email address. :(

Oh well. Knowing your work, I’m sure they’re gorgeous.

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Comment by Sarah

June 3, 2007 @ 3:06 pm

Hey Jess, what style in the designer do you use? What direction do you initially give them to make them look so nice and streamlined?

Thanks in advance!

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Comment by Windy

June 6, 2007 @ 11:51 am

Just an FYI: If you don’t have a pictage account you can log in under the demo name and view the email address is:newaccounts@pictage.com and the password is testdrive.

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