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. Download a sample template and play along with our short tutorial video and you will be creating amazing albums in no time! 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 "pop" them into the "windows". See our short step-by-step tutorial on our "Try It" page. 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
Currently, we offer books in the following sizes:
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.
Legally, we cannot include the fonts due to copyright law. Your download will include a text file called "Links to Fonts Used". On this page will be links that you can click to take you straight to where you can download the font for free. Also, the name of the font used in the sample is written into the layer name in the layers palette. See our "Learn" page to read about unzipping and installing fonts on your computer.
12 x 12 Standard book designed for use with any vendor that prints square books. The pages are provided as exact 12 x 24 spreads at 300dpi (sRGB color space) which can easily be resized to your printers specifications if needed. Also includes a standard sized cover.
** Always check your printers page and cover dimensions and make any necessary adjustments. **
12x12 Book for White House Custom Color
Designed specifically for White House's Press Printed Hinged Page BOOK. Includes a batch action that will resize your pages to the 10x10 book size - so it's like you get 2 book templates in one! Learn to batch process here. Download includes a full cover template for the 12x12 book and the 10x10 book. Page spreads sized at 12x23.
12x12 Album for White House Custom Color
Designed specifically for White House's new Album.Includes a batch action that will resize your pages to the 10x10 album size - so it's like you get 2 album templates in one! Learn to batch process here. Download includes a full cover template for the 12x12 album and the 10x10 album. Page spreads sized at 12.25 x 24.25.
What type of software do I need to use the templates?
1. You will need Elements 7 or newer if you wish to use our photo resizing actions or our "blog it" automated actions because these are action "sets". To learn how to install and use action sets in Elements 7 or newer, visit our "Learn" page.
2. The clipping command will work in Elements, however any design elements that have been placed in a folder in the layers palette will not be accessible. We have found a great Elements plug-in that can be purchased for $12 that will unlock many hidden Photoshop features for 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/
What size are your album templates?
Are the templates royalty free?
Are the fonts included?
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.
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. 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.
*Photoshop® Elements
How do I use the photo resizing actions? I don't see
the same dimensions on my page that are in the actions palette.
You are to choose the action that will resize your picture to where it's a little bigger than the width/height of the photo "window" in the template – then you use the clipping command to "pop" your picture perfectly into the "window". There's a super short little video on our "Try It" page that shows this process in action, you can see it HERE.
Let us explain why it's done this way . . . it has to do with photo proportions. A photo straight out of most cameras is basically 8 x 12, so the only way to get an 8x12 photo to fit inside, for instance an 8.00 x 8.00 size "window", is to either "scrunch the 12 inch side down to 8.00 (which would distort the picture, and no one wants that!) or to crop off that extra 4 inches. I'm sure you don't want us deciding what 4 inches gets trimmed off your photo . . . so we use handy clipping mask shapes. This way you can resize your photo to fit the longest side, then "pop" it into the 8.00 x 8.00 clipping shape and slide the picture around in the "window" to decide what area shows. Also by using the clipping command, you are cropping your picture without actually cropping anything off.
