The Album Cafe

You are buying fully customizable, layered Photoshop® templates for creating contemporary albums in record time. Designed to save you hours of design time and increase your sales, these storybook style templates are incredibly easy to use. Watch our short sample tutorial and you will be creating amazing albums in no time! We also have laid out step-by-step instructions for those less familiar with Photoshop©. Why sit behind a computer all day when you could be out shooting?

It's easy! Simply drag and drop your photos into each page and use the clipping command to drop them into each space. See our step-by-step tutorial in the "Try It" section. Feel free to add or subtract pages or re-arrange the order of the pages. If you are really feeling creative you can change the colors, fonts or design elements to create a totally unique album!

You will need one of the following:

Photoshop® 7 or Newer

*Photoshop® Elements

If you are concerned about using our templates in your version of Photoshop®, WE STRONGLY SUGGEST that you download our sample template from the "Try It"

page to test the template in your version of Photoshop® before you buy.

*The clipping command will work in Photoshop© Elements 7, however any design elements that have been placed in a folder in the layers palette will not be accessible.

Our templates have been tested in Photoshop® Elements 7 ONLY. We cannot

guarantee that the templates will work in any earlier versions.

Yes, but there are a few restrictions. The main purpose of our products are for you to use in designing books or products for your clients. These are not for you to resell in whole or in part to other photographers or the like. See the licensing agreement for full details.

No, the layouts are not an action or executable file. These will open like an image or a layered file. This way they are fully customizable. You can change color, text, positioning, etc. We do offer some actions (many written by Mama Shan) as a sidecar product to help with some specific pages that would otherwise take an extensive amount of time to design. You can find these in our "actions" section or packaged with some of our albums.

Legally, we cannot include the fonts due to copyright law. The name of the font used in the sample is included in the layer name. Most of the sample fonts that we use can be found FREE on www.dafont.com. See our "Learn" page to read about unzipping and installing fonts on your computer.

Square 12 x 12 templates* that can easily be batch resized to accommodate any square size. (4x4, 5x5, 8x8, 10x10 or any proportional square)

PLEASE check with your vendor to be sure that they don't require special bleeds for their particular book. We will not be responsible for albums that require a special bleed or do not print correctly. As we grow, we hope to add more sizes. (so please email us your requests!) Our layouts are designed to be used with any vendor that offers square albums or White House Custom Color. We do not recommend upsizing your templates. As with anything containing pixels, some loss of quality can result.

For consistency, all templates are provided in Adobe RGB 1998. (With the exception of our Blog It! templates which are in sRGB - the best colorspace to use for web display) PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR ALBUM VENDOR to see what color space they prefer. We will not be responsible for printing errors due to improper color space.

*12 x 12 albums do not include a cover design due to the fact that these sizes are mostly used to create leather bound albums which do not provide the option for a custom designed cover, and/or because different vendors dimensions and bleeds on 12x12 covers vary so widely that it would be impossible to provide a cover in a universal size that would print correctly.

10 x 10 specifically for White House Custom Color's HINGED PAPER coffee table books, which have a more complicated bleed layout.

For $12, you can download "Elements +" which unlocks many hidden Photoshop features for Photoshop Elements, including the ability to ungroup layer sets! We have downloaded and tested this add-on in Photoshop 7 and it works beautifully - you're going to love this! http://www.simplephotoshop.com/elementsplus/