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If this saves 20 minutes per album, you just got back your blogging time (I assume we are ALL behind on blogging, lol).

The overwhelmingly majority of us are small business owners who often take on most, if not all, tasks associated with running a business by ourselves.

Between the marketing, taxes, sales meeting, IT support, education, editing, janitorial duties and actually shooting, there is precious little time left over for creating one of a kind albums for our clients.

Fundy Designer Mega Software Dropped An

This year at WPPI, Fundy software dropped an absolute bombshell of an announcement which will change not only the workflow of many portrait and wedding photographers, but gives even the newest photographer the ability to design a beautiful album for their clients with ease.

They have truly adopted the storyteller concept of what we do as photographers and this tool will give us an amazing ability to offer custom albums to our clients.

Full disclosure, I have an association with Fundy Software as one of their storytellers.

This isnt a paid position but its worth mentioning as I dont want to imply this article is skewed because of that relationship.

Fundy Designer has been on the leading edge of making the album design process easier ever since I first tried their product (version 2) in 2010.

There are several differences but the one that is the most impressive to me is the, wait for it, the auto-design button.

Fundy Designer Mega Full Album Designed

Yes, you heard that right, push a button and you have a full album designed in less then 10 seconds (yes, really).

Theres a few ways you can achieve this and you can spend as much or as little time as you want to make it happen.

You can either use ONLY the photos you import or via image tagging that can be done in Bridge, Lightroom, Photo Mechanic, etc or in Fundy Designer (FD) 7 itself via the image browser.

With the introduction of tagging, you can mentally lay out your album as you are editing.

In the image browser, a very, very powerful feature is the ability to group the photos you want to appear on the same page.

For example, if you want a details page, just select those photos in FD7, hit the group button and the auto-designer will put all of those photos on the same page when auto-designing.

Same with choosing if an image should be a panoramic or a main image.

All of the current features of version 6 are, of course, still there like the ability to drag and drop photos into an automatically adapting (template free) layout, which is still as intuitive as ever.

Heres a great tutorial which goes more in depth into the auto-design process: From a photographers viewpoint (mine specifically), the ability to tag your photos while editing them (or in the image browser) then using those tags to auto-design an album will save an amazing amount of time.

Add in the ridiculous ease of use and flexibility Fundy is already known for with their current designer software and it will enable photographers of all skill levels to create beautiful albums for their clients.

If you want to live dangerously and throw caution to the wind, try adding the photos you want to use into FD7 and click auto-design.

Either way you approach it, dont blinkif you do youll miss it (honestly) because before you know it, you have a full album design completed.

FD7 allows you to have as much or as little control as you wish in the process.

This really removes the complication of ordering an album by simply sending it to the printer directly from the software and not have to navigate FTP programs, separate ordering forms or sorting out or re-numberingnaming the files.

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