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Version 3.6 On the way

We are working on a new v3.6 release of Album Builder. It is a super cool upgrade which will increase the speed of your album workflow significantly.

 

We've created an Automated Album File System.

Here is the start screen. You simply click "Start Album" and you make your choices and hit Start. As you can see, simply choose your cover size (in pixels, inches or mm), First/Last page and spread size. And that is it. Hit go and off you go.

Navigate your album

We've made it extremely easy to navigate the album you are currently designing or albums that you've already designed. There are 6 buttons dedicated to this.

  1. Save and Previous - this button will save the current spread (as a PSD) and go to the previous spread.
  2. Save and Next - this button will save the current spread and go to the next spread. If there isn't a file already, it will auto-create a new one for you.
  3. Save and Final - Will save the current spread and open the last page of the album, or create it if need be.
  4. Save and Reset - This will save out your current spread and reset all navigation buttons so you can start a new album or open up an old one.
  5. Go To Spread - simply type in the numbers and it will open that spread.
  6. Add a New Spread - If you need to insert a spread between two currently designed spreads, just add one with a couple clicks.
We've tested it and there are significant savings.
We've tested the system with our own album design and we've found significant time savings. They've been huge. We are looking forward to this next release and should have it to you in a couple of weeks at the latest.
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v3.6 Preview

New in version 3.6, automated file handling! On of the things that I've noticed myself is that I was spending a lot of time saving and opening up my spreads. And time lost is money lost and time away from my family. So, we went to work and designed a whole new way to handle album spread files. We've made it super easy, so easy that I couldn't even mess it up.

 

  1. Use Start Album to define the cover size, spread sizes and first/last page sizes. You can do this manually, or use any of your album presets.
  2. Hit start and the cover opens up automatically.
  3. When you are done, hit save and next and the first page opens.
  4. When you are done, hit save and next and the next page opens.
  5. Just continue with saving, and you breeze through your album.
  6. There are also save and previous buttons which takes you to the previous page, and a Go To button that let's you go to the next page.
  7. We've even added the option to open up an old album design and use the navigation.
I think it's cut another 20-25% off the design time, just by working smarter. Between this and Super Ninja, I've never, ever designed faster. Check out this 40 page album (+cover) that I designed in under 35 min. This is a real wedding, by AJ Studio, here in the Portland area. The images are real, the video is totally uncut, uncensored (you can see me make a few mistakes) and I still kept it under 35 min. Check it out.
v3.6 will be released in mid-October

 

Big News

We have some big news coming up next week.

We are working on a new Start Album module, that will auto save your cover and go to the first page, auto save the next and open the spread, etc. It automates the entire blank canvas operation.

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Easily create blog collages

Many users like to use Album Builder to make blog collages.

Here is a quick video that shows you how to make your own blog collages and save them as Design Presets so you can replicate it. If you would rather learn how to do it on the manual, just click here.

 

Super Ninja Released

Fundy SOS is proud to release Super Ninja. It promises to be the fastest way to free design Albums, once again raising the bar for Album Design Software.

Check out how it works.

 

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