Today we’re proud to announce that we’ve added Shoot Dot Edit to our growing list of partners.  Shoot Dot Edit is a professional digital media post production service company and offers a variety of services, including album design.  We think they’re great people and they offer great value in their services.  We highly recommend them if you’re looking to simplify your process by outsourcing post production or album design.

Shoot Dot Edit is also now the first album design studio integrated with AlbumExposure:  when you order album design with Shoot Dot Edit, you’ll proof your album design through AlbumExposure before you send it to your client.  Then when you’re satisfied, Shoot Dot Edit can push the album right into your AlbumExposure account to proof with your client.  When comments arrive, you can choose to pass them right on to Shoot Dot Edit for revisions.

Very soon, these studio features will be available to all of our design studio customers, stay tuned!

To learn more about what Shoot Dot Edit can do for your business, check them out at http://shootdotedit.com

Cheers!

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!

In case you didn’t see it, last week the PhotoJunction version 1.4 came out of beta last week, and features a number of enhancements including integration with AlbumExposure.  If you didn’t try out the beta, you’ll for sure want to check it out.  You can read more about PhotoJunction v1.4 on their blog.

Cheers!

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.

For those of you who came to WPPI and stopped by to see us, thanks so much, it was great to meet you!

We’re going to be announcing the winners of the Missing Piece Raffle next Tuesday, so stay tuned to find out if you’ve won great prizes from KISS Books, The [B] School, Fast Track Photographer, Shoot Dot Edit, Black Box Merch, Dedo Frame and more!

Until we draw the winners, we’ve also extended the WPPI Show Special for those of you who were scanned at our booth.  More details are in your email.

Cheers!

We’re so excited to have so many incredible people speaking at our booth at WPPI this year.  Catch these and more at our booth (#1140) Here’s what’s lined up:

Monday:

10 AM – Becker and the [b] School peeps coming by to kick off the show and pick up T-Shirts via Black Box Merch

NOON – Danny Bay of Photojunction (Demo of Photojunction Integration with AlbumExposure!)

2 PM – Jason Aten of Start Workshop at AE Booth

3 PM – Mike Larson at AE Booth

Tuesday:

11 AM Kevin Swan of KISS at AE booth

1 PM Danny of Ph0tojunction at AE booth (in case you miss it on Monday)

1:30 Gary Sikes of AE live on AskDane.com at the Fast Track/New Media Lounge

3 PM Michael Corsentino at AE booth

3:30 AE goes mobile at Dane Sanders‘ platform talk

6:00 AE at Fast Track after party at Centerfuge Lounge at the MGM

Wednesday

2 PM Dane Sanders’ at AE Booth to close out the show

Can’t wait to meet you! Keep up with us  on twitter (@albumexposure) for more during the show!

We can’t wait for WPPI this year, and we’re really excited to be exhibiting alongside so many other great companies.  We have some special surprises planned with some of our friends, and some great show only offers while we’re there as well.  It’s going to be a lot of fun, so stay tuned!

If you’re not already planning on attending (or even if you are), below is a FREE PASS to the tradeshow. Please feel free to share it with as many people as you like!

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!