For me and a lot of my photographer friends, there are few things worse than the thought of designing a wedding album. But I’d have to say that moving (which I’ve avoided for the past 12 years) and sorting through a couple’s spreadsheet to locate images for their wedding album are right up there. It’s one…
Over the past year, speaking with photographers around the country, we’ve learned that one of the most difficult parts of album design has nothing to do with designing – it’s the ordering. With that problem before us, we embarked on one of the largest projects album design has ever seen – to create streamlined design…
All of the updates you see below will be free for all current v6 Album Builder owners. Fundy Direct We’ve never been more proud than we are of this one item. It’s never been accomplished in our industry. Having one point of sale for albums from multiple labs and album companies. There are so many variables that go into…
When creating Fundy Direct, our main focus was to take as many pain points away from album design as possible. One of the key issues when designing an album, is collecting all of the collateral. In Fundy Designer, we have over 60 album companies and labs and thousands of sizes, but that is only part of…
One of my personal favorite things in Album Builder v6 is diving into the advanced features of the Drop Zones™. The key to a good layout is always trying to create one with the least amount of individual Drop Zones. It’s kind of a zen thing. Advanced Single Drop Zone Here is an example of a…
We are pretty excited to announce a new mini feature that will be coming in November along with Fundy Direct – the Loupe. What Is It? The Loupe will give you a full resolution print preview (actual print size) of anywhere you hover on the page. The small square is the area of the preview…
In this Feature of the Week, we’ll be discussing how to manage a portfolio project in Fundy Designer. Keeping a portfolio project active and up to date has many business benefits. The No. 1 business benefit is that you always have access to your images for a quick post to Facebook, social media or your…
THIS FEATURE HAS BEEN UPGRADED, PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE POST ON ON DROP ZONES 2.0 Album Builder and Fundy Designer, for all of their automated simplicity, are quite powerful programs under the hood. Today we’ll take a look at the complex layouts you can make with just one Drop Zone™, but also the complex designs…
While most users know that Album Builder has guides, many users do not know that you can also toggle on the file names of the images. I’ve even seen someone complaining on social media that this feature isn’t in Fundy Designer, eventhough it has been there since our launch in February. Guides We have a…
Whether you have multiple people in your studio working on a design or you work with a designer, we have a recommended workflow for you. Some people were duplicating projects, which is just what you don’t want to do. Duplicating projects bloats your projects folder and is asking for problems. It’s all about the sub-project….