The Professional Photographer's Digital Wedding Album Design Guide [Paperback]

Kathy Woodford (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 9, 2005

Kathy Woodford breaks new ground by showing you every step necessary to create digital magazine-style albums that will amaze your clients. If you want practical advice about the entire process of creating digital albums, this is the book for you. And if you're creating composite images of any kind in Adobe Photoshop, from marketing materials to scrapbooking, you'll find this guide to be an essential reference, both as a basic introduction to the Photoshop features you need to know, and as a resource for design ideas and techniques.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book guides you through the entire album design process in steps that are clear and complete. --Chris Sollart, Wedding Photographer

About the Author

Kathy Woodford began her career as a contract technical writer in Seattle, working at Aldus before it became Adobe. She wrote manuals and online help for such products as Aldus FreeHand and Pagemaker, and then worked for years as a technical writer at Microsoft. Several years ago she started Calypsis, now a successful wedding photography studio. She has used Adobe Photoshop for more than eight years, and conducts training seminars for professional photographers about digital album design.

Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Carillon Creek Press (September 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976664607
• ISBN-13: 978-0976664604
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #710,752 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A no-nonsense guidebook to Adobe Photoshop techniques for creating beautiful digital albums, November 12, 2005

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Professional Photographer's Digital Wedding Album Design Guide (Paperback)

The Professional Photographer's Digital Wedding Album Design Guide is a no-nonsense guidebook to Adobe Photoshop techniques for creating beautiful digital albums. Chapters cover why template and design programs are unnecessary, how to set up a secure digital workflow with back-up solutions, how to use proof selection software with clients in one's studio, solid design principles, factors that influence a fair price for albums, and more. Avoiding excessively long tutorials, The Professional Photographer's Digital Wedding Album Design Guide is very much a "quick start" reference for producing quality work with proven methods. Highly recommended for professional and amateur digital album designers alike.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even more than you're paying for!, October 11, 2005

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Jeff Caplan (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Professional Photographer's Digital Wedding Album Design Guide (Paperback)

I thought by the title, the book would cover how to Photoshop your way to a beautiful flush-mount album.

To my surprise, it also takes you through the entire process of producing an album-- including the forgotten parts: Dealing with clients, selecting images, production, and more.

A comprehensive book worth purchasing for a photographer getting into the wedding business, or looking to improve their skills at album production.

Jeff Caplan

Digital Wedding Forum

http://www.digitalweddingforum.com

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book is NOT for the experienced Photoshop user, April 8, 2006

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C. L. Willis "carlowdelete" (DETROIT, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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I was looking at purchasing this book for several months. In the mean time (and a little prior to) I studied and learned Photoshop from reading other books, the internet, and simply using the program. Well, when I finally decided to go ahead and purchase this book I was/am well versed with PS.

This book is WAY to simple in terms of "album design". It doesn't show anything I would call fancy, clever, or even good in designing in PS. It's the very basics when you use PS in the first place. If you already know PS dealing with layer, styles, etc, don't waste your money on this book. On the other hand if you don't know PS I would suggest a book geared strickly towards learning PS because you will get more out of a dedicated book. This book tries to cover digital album design within PS but you really don't gain a whole lot of knowledge. I think out of the entire book the only thing I got from it was a a place to download a film strip template from the author's website. Nuttin' else!

On a more personal note, the designs themselves are rather simple and boring (and I'm not an "out there" kind of guy). I don't want to be to harsh but I think the the designs are ugly. The auther is said to have won a design contest, but I really don't see how....unless of course the designed album was not displayed in this particular book.

In the end, get yourself a dedicated Photoshop book. This "design" book aint that good.

I gave it two stars because it goes step-by-step.