Choosing Album Photos

How to choose photos for an album

Great, we have put your photos onto a memory stick for you and it is time to choose the wedding photographs for your album.

Here are the steps to take to choose the photos for your album.

Refer to your wedding package to see how many photos are already included in your album package. It is usually 100 in the 30"x30" Gold package.

'Drag' the photos you would like to have in your album from the memory stick into that new folder and they will copy over. Please us the High Resolution files if you have them.

Do you want more photos in your album than the number you have in your package? No problem. Extra photos are £2.50 each in 30"x30" album. All photos in your album including cover photos, large and supersize photos count as photos from your total.

Once you have chosen all the photos you like view them as thumbnails and double check your selection.

If you would like a 'Montage page' with a big splash of photos like this one below it counts as 10 photos. Simply add 10 to your total number. To order a montage; Create a folder inside the 'Album Photos' folder and call it 'Montage'. drag lots of photos into it, (about 100 looks good) preferably use close up photos and small details shots.

This montage was done using black and white photos from the black and white folder on your stick but most use colour photos.

'Cover Photos' can be chosen by you. Create a folder inside 'Album Photos' called 'Front Cover'. Place a photo in there and it will be the feature photo on your front cover. If you choose an image where you are both on the right hand side of the photo (as the photo below shows) then we may make a wrap around cover that goes round the front and back using the same picture. Why not take a look at some we have designed before to see what is possible.

'Supersize photos' can be chosen that will be VERY BIG in your album. Usually across both pages and they take up a lot of space. You can choose a maximum of 4 and one is usually the huge group photo. Please them in a folder called 'Super' inside your 'Album Photos' folder.

'Large photos' take up most of a single page and are identified by us because they are in a folder called 'Large'. These photos highlight any photos that really must be big because you love them.

(Remember both Large and Supersize photos take up a lot of space in your album and our designer will have to compensate by making other photos smaller so don't choose too many. If you do we may contact you with a price adjustment to pay for a thicker album with more pages)

Background images are normally chosen by our designer but again you could offer a few suggestions by creating a 'Backgrounds' folder. These must be landscape images.

Colour or Black and White? If you would like Black and White please use those photos from your disc when making photo choices. We always default to colour if you do not supply any in Black and White. We will often convert additional photos to Black and White to compliment the ones you have chosen to make the design work (the same rules apply for sepia). If using Vintage photos for your album please avoid using the main colour photos.

Which photos go on which pages? Leave that to the designer. She knows best and will always place your photos in the time order they were taken throughout your day (with some exceptions).

Changing Your Mind! This may prove a real problem. Many hours go into designing an album and if you think you might like to change a number of the photos then we may have to charge for the extra time involved. It would be in the region of £25/hour and you would be required to sit with the designer and work through the changes via a special video conferencing screen share (eg Skype/Zoom screen share)

Changing the layout! This is acceptable and is usually not chargeable. We allow one redesign session free of charge and you may be required to sit with the designer and work through the changes via a special video conferencing screen share (eg Skype/Zoom screen share). As you will see the changes being made live as you instruct the designer you will sign each page off as you go along with a final check at the end. There are no further free edits available and later changes are chargeable.

Once you have chosen all your photos and put them into folders please drop them onto a new memory stick or onto a cloud storage like OneDrive or Dropbox and get them to us. If you are having problems please give us a call.

If your package has 10 free images please supply the choice of these photos at this time. You can have any 10 photo any size but the largest size that is free is 16"x12". Why not order any extra prints from us as well. They will be cheaper than they are on our web site. Please rename any files in some way to notify of the required size. I suggest you purchase frames in advance of prints.