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!

Today Jason Aten talked about AlbumExposure and simplicity in his album workflow on his blog, a pleasant surprise for us.  Here’s an excerpt:

In every aspect of my business, I’m constantly evaluating and asking myself “what am I doing that’s unnecessary or unhelpful,” and “how can I eliminate it from the customer experience?” … Since I’ve eliminated the complexity – and made things simple for my clients and me – my album sales have increased about 300%

Check out Jason’s workshops and his blog at http://startworkshop.com, lots of good stuff in there!

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!

Happy new year everyone!  We’re really excited about the first quarter plans that we have for AlbumExposure and can’t wait to see what this new year is going to bring :)

Make sure you catch Mike Larson this month on his Pictage User Group tour speaking about client relationships, the industry, workflow (including AE :) ) and more!

We’re so happy to have Mike on board as an AlbumExposure user and supporter!

Find out more about Mike at http://mikelarson.com, follow him on twitter at @mikelarsoninc, and see all his speaking dates at http://mikelarson.com/seminars

Need a last minute gift idea for a photographer or album designer in your life?  Only for our existing paid subscribers, give a gift subscription for a year of AlbumExposure for $75, %50 off the regular price!  Plus, we’ll also set you up as the referrer, so you’ll collect residual commission in the future.  Just send an email to support [at] albumexposure.com and we’ll get you set up We’ll even prep a fancy email to your recipient if you would like :)

Not an AlbumExposure member yet?  There’s still something for you: enter the promo code “HOLIDAZE” when upgrading and you’ll save $10 :)

Happy Holidays from us at AlbumExposure!

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, along with a handful of small bug fixes, we also pushed out one of the most requested features on our feedback page, the option to turn off the center shadow in book view.  The shadow is designed to give a little depth to the book view, but many of you didn’t like the appearance of the shadow, especially on albums with a lighter background where it is more visible.

You’ll find the option on the bottom of the create/edit album screen:

Cheers!

Today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve partnered with Triple Scoop Music to bring you a special offer:

10% off all Triple Scoop Music for AlbumExposure users!

If you’ve upgraded, you’ll see the link on the songs page once you log in, and you should also receive it by email today.

We’re big fans of Triple Scoop Music and think that they’re dong great work making legal, affordable music available for so many people for all sorts of uses.

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.