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our newest Send to Print partner: FOLIO Albums

Jared — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:31:54 +0000

Big announcement for our friends in Europe and the UK!

Our newest Send to Print partner is none other than FOLIO Albums! Folio offers some amazing wedding books, handmade right in the UK. These guys really do it right, we know you’ll be impressed. They’ve been able to overcome many of the challenges facing European photographers who want great albums, but can’t afford the issues with importing. Check them out today and tell Stewart we said hello!

Cheers!

Why we’re ditching Flash (and IE for now).

Jared — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:00:38 +0000

While in the process of planning the future of AlbumExposure, we’ve decided that in order to move forward we’ve got to leave some things behind which are holding us back. Mostly we think that’s flash. In the last 30 days, visitors to our site had 24 different versions of the flash player installed. It’s just not possible for us to keep up with all the different versions and quirks of each flash player release. The most common fix to a problem with an AlbumExposure presentation is having the user upgrade their flash player and our customers deserve better.

Unfortunately at this time the only browser that doesn’t support the html5 features we need to replace flash is Internet Explorer. IE 9 is going to have at least much better html5 support, but we don’t think we can sit around and wait until a release date is announced. The good news is that only a small percentage of our users are using IE.

We’re confident that going this direction is going to make for a better, more reliable experience for you and your clients, and is going to open up opportunities for cool new features in the future that wouldn’t otherwise be possible (drag and drop uploads anyone?)

So, here’s what we’re going to do an how it will affect you and your clients:

The first phase will be the launch of our new site design this week, which is going to some of the newer CSS3 features. If you visit our main site using IE or an older version of a browser that isn’t html5 compatible, you’re going to see a notification asking you to upgrade your browser. The client presentations will be unchanged.

The next step will be converting all album presentations to html5. Our plan is to leave a fallback to flash so that you won’t have to force your clients to upgrade their browsers, but the flash presentation will likely be limited to slideshow view.

The final phase of removing flash entirely probably won’t happen until IE 9 is released, but we think it’s important for us to take steps now to prepare.

We’d love to hear how you like the new design when it launches this week!

Cheers!

Shoot Dot Edit and Design Studio Features

Jared — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:54:34 +0000

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!

Send to Print with Leather Craftsmen

Jeff — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:37:40 +0000

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!

iPad/HTML5 Support

Jared — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:07:44 +0000

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!

Photojunction v1.4

Jared — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:13:30 +0000

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!

Send to Print with Laguna Albums

Jared — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:00:09 +0000

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!

AlbumExposure integration with PhotoJunction

Jared — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:00:30 +0000

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.

WPPI Missing Piece Raffle, Show Special Extended!

Jared — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:22:55 +0000

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!

WPPI Speaker Schedule

Jared — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:18:31 +0000

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!