Keep in mind that when changing the album size from one format to another, the new layouts on each spread will be different from the original album. For example, if you resize an 8x8 square album to a 9x12 vertical album, the spread layouts will be modified to fit the new album proportions. Even when resizing within the same format, such as a horizontal to horizontal change, the layouts will change if the proportions of the two albums are not the same. For example, an 8x10 to an 8x12 change will result in the layouts being different in the new album size.
When troubleshooting an issue that you are having with SmartAlbums, our Customer Support team may ask you to run a SmartAlbums clean-up script on your computer. This script resets certain settings, hints, recent album project lists, and cached files. Depending on whether you use Mac or Windows, please follow the steps below to run the script:
The All Apps Bundle is a single subscription to all four Pixellu products. You will get access to our album design software, SmartAlbums, our online album proofing service, Cloud Proofing (SmartAlbums add-on), and the Unlimited plan options for our slideshow design software, SmartSlides and our gallery software, Galleries. Everything you need to wow your clients in a single plan.
If the project file or images have been moved, the links between the two may break and Pixellu SmartAlbums will not display any of the images when you open the project. This can happen if an album project has not been opened for a while or after moving an album project from one computer to another. You may see something like this:
SmartAlbums 2 purchases currently come with a free year of their Album Proofer, which lets you upload layouts to a website, have your clients make notes on changes online, which you can then download straight to the app. After that first year the price is a whopping $199 a year, but if you make a lot of albums that cost will likely be recouped fast.
Of the two I definitely prefer the Pixellu SmartAlbums Cloud Proofing service, but personally I manage to get by just fine uploading album layouts to my Shootproof account and clients have no problem describing their changes by email or over the phone.
Fundy Album Builder is just one part of the Fundy Designer Suite. Alone it is $279, and for around $60 more you can add their Blog Collage tool to the suite, allowing me to create both an album and a blog collage within the same app from the same pool of images. Of course, that ramps the price to around $330 for both of those but they regularly offer 25% discounts throughout the year.
SmartAlbums 2 is laser-focussed on just creating albums, but the standard price is $299, although that does include a year of album proofing, which is $199 a year after that. To create a blog collage you need to switch to another app, for example BlogStomp, so you end up spending a little more than Fundy (actually a lot more if you get Fundy on sale) and not have that fluidity of workflow you get in Fundy.
Pixellu SmartAlbums is a simple but powerful album design software for photographers. With the release of the 2022 version, Pixellu somehow managed to find a way to make the whole process even more simplified with their AutoBuild feature.
Within seconds of firing up the tool for the very first time, I flowed effortlessly through the panels to create a new album and within seconds (yes, seconds) I had a draft of a full album already put together. Truly unbelievable. All I had to do was move a few things around on each spread, and boom. I had successfully designed an album I would be proud to deliver to clients in under five minutes.
All in all, I think that being able to customise an entire photo wrap is pretty cool, and something that wedding clients would no doubt appreciate to get their albums looking even more unique and personalised.
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Back in the fall of 2013, one company made album design a much more enjoyable task when they released SmartAlbums. Thousands of photographers are raving about how the program makes their design process much easier, and now those applauds are only going to get even louder. Yesterday, Pixellu, the company that developed SmartAlbums released version 2 and I am in love!
Pixellu SmartAlbums is very handy software which can help you create breathtaking albums with the photos. You can make different albums whether you have photos from a wedding reception or a vacation trip. This software provides you a lot of templates which you can use to make albums
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