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p.2 #8 · p.2 #8 · Which album design software would you chose??? | |
I've moved from templates to photoshop only.
I look at other's online albums for inspiration while I'm in the learning phase. I've now done 3 albums in PS and am getting faster and am enjoying much more than using templates.
A book that helped with some workflow stuff and concepts I like is digial weding album design guide by woodford. Frankly, I don't care for many of the designs but the book was very informative for me and where I'm at in the whole process. I gained ideas and workflow. While it's not mentioned in the book I use LR and put all album selects into a collection. Then I start selecting the appropiate # of images for the pano and then drop into a folder, IE, p2+3, 4+5, etc. then export...Now I have all pano's in their folders. I then start laying out the images on my blank pages. When I'm done I go back and apply strokes, gradiants, etc.
There is more but you get the drift. With a little effort you can do better than a template if you are willing to put in some learning time in the beginning...
While I'm not a "graphic artist" I'm not finding it that difficult to make some nice lay outs.
Look around for inspiration at others work. Learn how to "apply" the affects in PS.
You will have much more creativity once you get going and will most likely have more satisfaction in your work as opposed to using templates in my opinion.
If I were to spend money on software for album design other than CS3 then it would be Indesign, but that ain't cheap...
Edited on Feb 06, 2008 at 12:57 AM
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