Fundy Album Builder

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

Fundy Album Builder and Workflow install the same way. Please follow these instructions regardless of program.

How to open Fundy Album Builder for the first time in Photoshop CS4 and CS5

Opening Fundy Album Builder for the first time in Photoshop CS3.

People want to easily select images on a page and move them around. Photoshop has this ability, but it's turned off by default. Let's turn them on.

How to easily align boxes and how Photoshop works.

Smart guides are awesome. They tell you when you actually have stuff lined up!

Photoshop auto aligns to the images, not the boxes (or masks they are in)

Canvas Creator is one of the most versatile modules of Album Builder. You can set your page sizes and margins to the exact standards that the album printing companies require. Make your own, or use one of our Album Company Presets. Any size album, and printing company. Additionally you can save marketing piece sizes, like post cards and business cards.

The "Sticky" is used to set your default canvas settings so you dont have to repeat your design preference.

Everything you need to know about setting up your guides.

A complete overview of how to add and manage your own personal presets.

Adding company presets will save you time when designing albums for print.

First time users will immediately see the power and benifits of using ninjla layout. Ninja layout is the most powerful tool in the Album Builder arsenal. It does away for the need to tirelessly search through templates.

Basics of super ninja

The "Quick One Up" button is used to create a single box for your image to be placed. Its the simplist of all the buttons. Here is how to use it.

The Grid Maker is the simplest of the multi box buttons. Its a really powerful tool that will help save you time in creating your albums

The column maker is extreamly powerful. It will save you so much time when creating spreads. Lets see how it works.

The row maker is extreamly powerful. It will save you so much time when creating spreads. It works like the column maker, expect the results are stacked vertically, instead of horizontally

Puzzle Maker will create a random group of images within your selection. You pick how many verticals and horizontals you want, and puzzle maker will do the rest. NOTE - Puzzle maker will only work with square selections. Regardless of how your selection is, puzzle maker creates the ouside boundaries to be a square. More on that at the end of this lesson

Now that you have created your boxes, you need to fill them with images. Here is how you do it.

Numbering your masks will help keep track of what images you want, and where you want to put them. This is essential with filling from Bridge.

Fill Advanced gives you a lot of options when filling your grids. From applying presets and actions, to merging the selected masks. Explore the features of Fill Advanced.

Filling from Bridge is a very easy way to organize your layouts while you design. Adobe built a fantastic image viewer, we might as well use it.

You can batch apply actions to your layout. Wether it be one image, or all your images.

How to Batch Apply Filters in Album Builder

Need to retouch an image in your spread? We've got you covered. Pop/Return images will allow you to pop out an image, edit it, and return it to the spread without adjusting the original image. Here is how.

Working with Original images is a little different then working with the temporary images. Here is how you do it.

Sometimes, your masks just are not spaced well enough. Maybe you want to add some space, or take it away. Here is how.
(NOTE respacing masks only works in Grid Maker)

You can adjust the mask (cropping) of your opening very easily.

Sometimes, the images just dont fit like you want them to. Here is how you can select the image, without the mask, and move/resize the image.

A really cool feature inside of album builder is the ability to merge masks together to create mutliple masks, with only one image.

Just like "place" option in photoshop, Album Builder gives you the ability to add elements on to your spread. Background images, logos, other images, anything can be added to you spreads.

Sometimes, you need an easy way to change the color of the background inside of a spread.

An easy way to add sloppy borders.

NOTE: No longer supported in CS3

shortcut to your layers panel

Using the save button

Many album companies require you to submit single pages, but I like to design in spreads. Half-it lets you automate the process.

This button is especially made for Album Approved clients.

How to use your buttons.

If you forget

Album Builder gives the ability to save out designs, so you can use them again and again. Album Builder also comes with 3 premium designs by Gene Higa

It's easy to install design presets.

It's easy to create a one off design, or design an entire album with DesignMatic.

Designing a whole album in a few minutes with Design Matic. You can go through an entire ablum one page at a time super fast.

It's easy to add one design to a template set. For example, if you have a "Portrait Favorites" set, you can easily add a design to it when you make one you really like. Or a "getting ready", "details", etc.

Have an album design you love and want to save it as a template? Got two minutes? This is what you need to do.

Don't see a supported album company you use? Or are you an album company that wants Fundy SOS to support you? Just follow these steps.

One the keys to a successful workflow is breaking it down into manageable chunks. With Album Design, staring at a group of images makes it harder to design. The more images you stare at the more confusing it gets.

A technique that works really well for me is breaking down.

In this modern age, let's face it, we need to protect our images. One great way to do this, is to create blog collages, where are images are smaller and post them to our blogs and social media sites. This solves two problems. One is that it makes the images too small to steal. Additionally, it looks awesome.