Monday, September 1, 2008

Great Album Design Tool

After many years and designing over 100 wedding albums, I've finally found a software tool and company that is truly worthy. Photojunction software, (www.photojunction.com) has an outstanding software product titled PJ Remix. This is the first product in my professional opinion that is designed by photographers, for photographers and artists, that works! (after all you don't have to be a photographer to design an album). This software is simply outstanding and totally flexible to fit your needs! You are not STUCK with a certain Album Company as this program will allow you to create and design in any size and paramaters you need. Most design software charge you an arm and a leg (or they will get you into their program using bait and switch methods, for example they sell you the software at what seems to be a reasonable price only to discover you have to use their approved album and or lab companies, which they in turn charge the lab and album companies an additional fee to be able to accept your order as well further increasing your fees, what a rip!) Back to Photojunction, again outstanding! I downloaded their software for their 30 day free trial and had questions right away as I was designing a custom album for a company that they did not have listed in their specs. I called the toll free number and within an hour received a call back from their tech support people in New Zealand! Try getting that type of support from a local company. (Due to the time difference I'm sure they can't always call that quickly, however my 4 phone calls with questions were all answered very fast) Ian was the man I had talked to and it wasn't like getting a level 1 technician who would wast 20 minutes of your time asking all of the canned questions that you may have experienced with other technical support companies. Ian was very knowledgable and most of all honest with the fact on what the program could do for me. As I mentioned when I called the album company I was designing an album for was not on their list and Ian quickly explained how I could set up custom sizes and also gave me several design tips to boot. Note! I hadn't even purchased the software yet! At any rate I was very pleased on the power of the software, their powerful online video tutorials but more so the quality of their customer service. I was also suprised that when I went to purchase the software the price was at least half of other software that paled in comparison. So if your a professional photographer, album designer, artist and have a need to design Albums, custom size prints, posters almost anything I'd say check these guys out! Far more bang for the buck and to top it off If you even need the technical support, you will not be disapointed. One last note, the price also includes 2 seats/license so my part timer can also work on a different project while I'm working on another.

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