Wedding album software: FundySOS Album Builder?Any good?

you can try templatebase album making software more user fraindly and really fast
http://www.dgphotoalbum.com

u can try picasso dg photo album software
http://www.dgphotoalbum.com

Whilst on this subject, does anyone use Adobe Indesign? I know its expensive but how does it compare with Fotofusion?
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Chris

To use an analogy, Indesign is like going to Home Depot, buying wood and building a cabinet of your own design while FotoFusion is like buying a pre-packaged kit. They both result in a cabinet, but one is easier and the other is your creation.

I have used both along with AlbumDS. I find I use FotoFusion for quick layouts, AlbumDS for more complex and unique layouts and InDesign when I'm feeling creative and neither FotoFusion or AlbumDS has the right template to fit my needs. To be fair to FotoFusion and AlbumDS I haven't spent the time to learn to create my own templates within their products as I already know how to in InDesign.

ukchris said:

Whilst on this subject, does anyone use Adobe Indesign? I know its expensive but how does it compare with Fotofusion?
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Chris

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Thanks Joe, very useful. A couple more questions if I may:

1. My workflow revolves around Lightroom 3 and CS3. I also mainly work with raw files. Which of fotofusion, albumds, and indesign works best within this environment. I'm thinking more in terms of the need to modify an image during album creation where any mods are kept in sync with LR.

2. I gather that fotofusion is a stand-alone program and is therefore similar to (but would assume more advanced) to the sort of software that album makers provide to design with their own albums? Therefore presumably I would need to export my developed raw files as jpegs with LR before using Fotofusion?

3. As albumds sits on top of PS CS, are there any potential memory issues with transferring 50-100 images from LR to PS? (CS3, Vista 32 bit, 4gb ram)

4. Why can you create album designs quicker in fotofusion? Why can you be more creative with albumds?

Sorry, more than a couple of questions but as a user of all 3, I would very much appreciate your thoughts.
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Chris

Steven - I think what you're missing is that all the album design software is going to do is layout each page as a jpg. If you send that to Smugmug and tell them to print it you're going to get just that, a print. If you want an album you're going to have to jump outside SM and go to your printer of choice, take the jpgs you've created and compile them as an album. That's where you'll select the type of cover (leather, linen, photo, etc), type of paper, finish, etc. and put the pages in the album in the order you want them. For example, SM Pro uses BayPhoto as their lab. If you go directly to Bayphoto.com they have an entire arsenal of album choices. You can also do press printed books, which is what SM does with their connection to Blurb. Unlike the old days where you printed the print and inserted it into a matted page, now the entire page is printed as one object, background and all.
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