Albums by Pear Tree Photography

I have been so excited to share my albums with you, but needed to wait until after Christmas.  This one was being given as a surprise present to the bride from my October wedding at Red Top Mountain state park.  I was told it was a big hit!  And there might have been tears.

I love that I'm not limited to just a leather binding and can use a photograph for the album cover.

Designing albums initially seemed like an overwhelmingly daunting task to me.   There are so many different companies to choose from for the printing.  There are so many different options to choose from after deciding on a printer like press printed, flush mount or lay flat albums.  And there was the matter of actually designing the album and choosing which software to use.

I love how photographs can extend right off the page, filling up every inch of the spread.

I ultimately decided on Adobe's InDesign software as Adobe's support is great (I primarily use Lightroom for editing my photographs, although I also use Photoshop).  I had the help of Lauren Lim from Photography Concentrate to make sense of all the bells, whistles, drop down menus and toolbars in Adobe InDesign.   I bought her tutorial and feel it was the best money I have ever spent.  I received hours upon hours of videos with the most thorough hands-on action and instruction and could not be more impressed.

I love that I can tell a story without words and details of the day will speak volumes in this heirloom album.

Once I designed the album, I uploaded it to my gallery site to share with the bride's family for feedback.  If you click here, then you can see a few of the spreads from the album.  Double-click on the image and you can see it even larger.  Clients can leave comments under each spread stating what they do like or what they would like changed.  This makes it super easy for me to understand requested changes and eliminates the need for back/forth emails or references to particular PDF files to tweak the album.

The thickness of the pages and quality of the paper and photos....wow.  Just wow!

This is a lay flat album, which means the pages will all open and then lay flat on their own.  The bonus to this is that the crease is barely noticeable.  Photographs can spread across the middle of the album without losing any impact.

This is still my favorite photograph from this special day.

I am so over-the-moon excited about being able to provide these albums.  The quality of them from cover to cover is absolutely phenomenal.  I wish you could reach through your monitor and hold it in your hands because it really is amazing! 

My album company is based out of Iowa and is filled with good people striving to provide excellent service and products AND in a faster turnaround time than is standard for most printing companies.  Do you see me doing the happy dance right now?  Amazing quality AND in my clients' hands in no time.  Double win!