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A quiet workshop on the Portuguese coast Along the northern coast of Portugal, where the Atlantic ocean meets the vibrant culture of Matosinhos near Porto, craftsmanship has always been a way of life. That is where Floricolor began its journey back in 1979. What started as a dedicated regional photo laboratory over four decades ago […]

There is a certain reputation that comes with things made in Yorkshire: honest, hardworking, and built to last. That is exactly the foundation Stewart Randall built Folio Albums upon over 14 years ago. What started as a personal search for a truly exceptional, UK-crafted digital album has quietly grown into an industry benchmark. Folio isn’t […]

If you aren’t already tuning in to Magic Wedding Photographer, you are missing out on some of the funniest, most honest advice in the photography world. In a recent YouTube feature, Magic takes Spreadu for a test drive, showing what happens when a real working pro puts our album designer through its paces. Let’s be […]

Spreadu now speaks more languages. Our online album designer is now available in English, Spanish, Italian and German, making it easier for photographers around the world to design albums in the language they actually use every day. It is the same fast, flexible Spreadu experience: drag and drop layouts, no surprise auto-cropping, live proofing, and […]

We’ve created a new YouTube series to help photographers get more from Spreadu without having to sit through one long tutorial. Each video focuses on one feature and shows exactly how it works, from swapping images and changing image ratios to adjusting layouts, using scenes, designing per page and exporting the finished album. The idea […]

There is a big difference between an album that simply holds photographs and an album that feels like part of the whole client experience, and Dekora Album Co. seems to understand that difference very well. Based in Canada, Dekora has been making handmade albums for professional photographers for over 20 years, with a strong focus […]

Hey, we just made the proofing experience in Spreadu better than ever before. This is one of those updates that makes album revisions feel completely different. Until now, if a client wanted to swap a photo in the album, it usually meant an email. Or a screenshot. Or a message saying something like, “Can we […]

One of the best things about Spreadu is that you are not locked into one way of designing a spread. The same set of images can feel clean, editorial, emotional, bold, minimal, playful, or completely different, depending on how you arrange them. That is the whole point of flexible album design: the layout should follow […]

Selling albums does not need to become a huge sales process. Most photographers do not need a complicated script, a beautifully over-designed pricing guide, or a new personality where they suddenly enjoy “closing.” They just need a simple way to make albums part of the client experience. The reason many clients do not buy albums […]

Photographers spend so much time thinking about the next thing that it is easy to forget what all of this work is supposed to become. There is always another shoot, another gallery, another client, another deadline. The job becomes a constant movement from one project to the next. But at some point, it is worth […]

Sometimes album design is not about starting again. It is about one tiny change that makes the whole spread feel better. That is exactly why we added a new page swap button in Spreadu. If you have a spread where the left and right sides would simply work better the other way around, you no […]

Album pricing gets messy when photographers start with the lab cost and simply add “a bit extra”. If an album costs you $250 to produce, selling it for $350 might look like a profit, but it usually isn’t. You still have to design it, proof it, handle changes, prepare the files, answer client emails, and […]