Many of you have already made your life easier by sending albums directly to print with our partners KISS Books and Laguna Albums. Today we’re stoked to add Leather Craftsmen to this growing list. Once an album is approved in AE, we’ll verify your files to Leather Craftsmen’s specifications and send it right over…that’s it! If you haven’t checked them out yet, now is a great time to do so (http://leathercraftsmen.com).

Cheers!

We’ve been quiet for a little while, and that’s because we’ve been working on some big features, one of which we’re proud to announce today. We’ve taken our first step towards complete compatibility with devices that don’t support flash, specifically the iPad.

Client Presentations

First, when a client logs in to view an album, if they’re using an iPad, they’ll automatically be shown the iPad compatible version of the client presentation.

HTML5 Embed Codes

Second, there’s now a new embed code you’ll find when you click ‘share’ that’s html5 powered rather than flash.  If you use this code rather than the flash  one, visitors to your site or blog who don’t have flash will be able to view the embedded album.  If you already have albums embedded and you want this functionality, you’ll need to switch those to the html5 embed code.

Here’s the same album as our previous post on embedding albums, but with the new html5 code:

Public Pages

Last, if you’ve enabled sharing on your album, the public page for that album is now also iPad friendly.

Can’t wait to show you what we’re working on next!

At WPPI we announced our second send to print partner, Laguna Albums, and we’re excited to have them on board.  Just click the Laguna Albums logo after your album is approved and we’ll verify your uploaded spreads meet Laguna specifications and send them on over for you.

Just a reminder, in order to use the send to print feature, you’ll need to upload print resolution spreads,  specifically for Laguna, your spreads need to be at 200 dpi.

More coming soon!

Cheers!

One of the most exciting things that we announced at WPPI this year was integration with PhotoJunction.  We couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with Danny and the rest of the PhotoJunction team.  Check out the video below, it’s pretty slick.

Today we’re happy to announce another little feature we hope you’ll like: we’ve changed “embed” to “share” because now you can not only embed your albums on your blog or website, but when you make an album public you’ll also automatically get a public url to share your album.

The public album page shows the same viewer you get with the embed, but automatically created for you without having to paste the embed code anywhere.  We hope this will also be useful for those of you wanting to a url to use with PickPic to link to your albums.

For an example, here’s the same demo album from the embed post, but at its public url:

http://albumexposure.com/elevation/public/demo

Cheers!

This might be old news if you’ve already seen it, but not so long ago  we added a handy delete all button to the upload screen so that if you’re replacing a large number of spreads you won’t have to click each little x:

Cheers!

Per usual, along with a handful of small tweaks and fixes, we launched a new feature this week that should be helpful for those of you who are working with higher volumes of albums.

On the albums screen, there is now an “Archive” arrow:

This will do a few things:

• Archived albums don’t show on your login screen, or on your main working screen, so that those are not cluttered by old albums.
• Archived albums DO allow you to continue to embed the album in your blog or website.
• Archived albums CAN NOT be sent to print as the original hi-res files are removed when you archive your album.  Make sure you only archive albums that you no longer need to send through albumexposure to production.

We hope that this cleans up those screens for you while still leaving you with the embed functionality for as long as you like.

Cheers!

This week we pushed out a few little things to albumexposure you might appreciate.

We heard from a few of you that when designing albums in InDesign, spreads are numbered with a single digit, which causes them to be out of order when you upload them to your album.  Now AlbumExposure will automatically rename the file “spread_1.jpg” to “spread_01.jpg” for example, which will save those of you experiencing this some time and headache.

We also added a confirmation when deleting albums so you won’t accidentally click delete on any album and lose your work :)

You might also notice that emails coming from AlbumExposure regarding comments or approval for an album will also have the name of the album in the subject to help you identify which album emails are regarding more quickly.

Lastly, we recently created a page for AlbumExposure on facebook.  It’s got our blog articles, and our videos up there.  We’d love for you to become a fan, share it with your friends and even start discussions there.

More to come!

Today we’re very excited to announce a big new feature in AlbumExposure.

We were brainstorming ways to make your lives easier and one thing that kept coming up was connecting to the next step in your process – getting your album to print.  So we did it.

When you upload your full resolution spreads to AlbumExposure, you can send them straight to print with the click of a button. We’ll even make sure they’re the right size for you.

Our first partner is KISS Books, and we couldn’t be happier to be working alongside them.  KISS makes fantastic wedding books, simple and elegant; right up our alley.

Today we’re happy to announce a new feature we’ve added that many of you have requested:  the ability to embed an album on another web page (sans the comment box) to show off your album on your blog or website.

Like so:

Enjoy!