Gary Fong's Digital Album Designer - anyone use this?

zoeblue

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a photo album designer. I've used Blurb's software but I've found their software's newest version to be buggy; it crashes too many times!

Anyways, I'm looking for something else and came across Gary Fong's Digital Album Designer software. Has anyone used this? How is the program?

I've Googled for reviews, but haven't found any that were helpful.

Love is Art

I've used it, and find it useful. You'll need to have knowledge of Photoshop because his software is just an addition to it. Really it's just action buttons. For example...quick clicks to ad borders, b&w conversion, sepia, bring image to front. Although I don't really like his b&w conversion. I would say that it's helpful in a design process, but it's not the be all, end all.

If you need some help with design...I just happen to be in the biz. I'm started a new business where I will be doing the design layouts and album ordering for professional photographers. I currently use Vision Art Books, Laguna Albums, & Kiss Wedding Books.

I hope this was helpful,

Jessica

zoeblue wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a photo album designer. I've used Blurb's software but I've found their software's newest version to be buggy; it crashes too many times!

Anyways, I'm looking for something else and came across Gary Fong's Digital Album Designer software. Has anyone used this? How is the program?

I've Googled for reviews, but haven't found any that were helpful.

Cindy

zoeblue wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a photo album designer. I've used Blurb's software but I've found their software's newest version to be buggy; it crashes too many times!

Anyways, I'm looking for something else and came across Gary Fong's Digital Album Designer software. Has anyone used this? How is the program?

I've Googled for reviews, but haven't found any that were helpful.

I've never tried the one you mentioned but I LOVE my Fotofusion by lumapix. Check it out at: http://www.lumapix.com/
There's some other threads on here about it and you'll finds tons of info with google.

zoeblue

Thanks for the info I'm just researching out the different options for album design that will make this part easier.

mercphoto

Love is Art wrote:

I've used it, and find it useful. You'll need to have knowledge of Photoshop because his software is just an addition to it. Really it's just action buttons.

This looks pretty cool. It works on a Mac with CS3, correct? Will it work with any page size and layout?

Love is Art

Yep works on the PC & the Mac with either CS2 or CS3. He has action buttons to autodrop photo's into a square, vertical or 8x10 layout. You can alway tweek the size after that.

Jessica

mercphoto wrote:

This looks pretty cool. It works on a Mac with CS3, correct? Will it work with any page size and layout?

mercphoto

Love is Art wrote:

Yep works on the PC & the Mac with either CS2 or CS3. He has action buttons to autodrop photo's into a square, vertical or 8x10 layout. You can alway tweek the size after that.

Jessica

Cool. Unfortunately I think they have a problem with their site. I just entered a help-ticket with them. I ordered, got the download, but the only thing that downloaded was an "adredirect.html" file, which is not an Action file.

Cincojoe

mercphoto wrote:

This looks pretty cool. It works on a Mac with CS3, correct? Will it work with any page size and layout?

Does not work on a mac

mercphoto

Cincojoe wrote:

Does not work on a mac

Hope you're wrong! I bought it already. They do have tutorials specifically for the Mac platform.

mercphoto

Well, it does work on my Mac (Leopard with CS3). So that is good! So far I'm pretty happy with it. I'm sure that a Photoshop guru could have replicated all these actions, but a guru I'm not, so it was worth the money. Now I can resize individual images after I've plopped them down, rotate individual layers, and do all sorts of other things that I knew were possible but had no idea how to do.

Pamela

Recently I purchased a few set of templates from here www.lbvtemplates.blogspot.com/
they worked out great.

This is what I made with them www.exposed-images.smugmug.com/gallery/3231056
Im sry my capture shots will not work (can we get the png working on here)

Pamela

zoeblue wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking for a photo album designer. I've used Blurb's software but I've found their software's newest version to be buggy; it crashes too many times!

Anyways, I'm looking for something else and came across Gary Fong's Digital Album Designer software. Has anyone used this? How is the program?

I've Googled for reviews, but haven't found any that were helpful.

mercphoto

I was pleasantly surprised who quickly I was able to make this collage using the Gary Fong action set:

Pamela

mercphoto wrote:

I was pleasantly surprised who quickly I was able to make this collage using the Gary Fong action set:

Bill

That is awesome!

Im going to have to check out that action.