MAGAZINE STYLE WEDDING ALBUM & COFFEE TABLE DIGITAL WEDDING ALBUMS

 

So far the terms mentioned have referred specifically to flush mount photo albums. Confusion often arises when digital photo books are similarly referred to as magazine style wedding photo books, digital coffee table book or wedding photo books, montage style coffee table book, art book, book style wedding album, wedding storybook album and so on . All of these terms usually refer to the flush mount photo album, but they can also refer to a type of digital photo book

Digital Wedding Photo Albums

These wedding photo albums all fall under the general category of 'digital albums' and they can and sometimes do differ in style and quality and layout. The magazine style wedding album is what is known as the 'flush mount photo album' and is constructed of a hard bound cover and rigid pages consisting of photo prints dry mounted on card. The flush mount album doesn't have matted pages such as those found in a traditional wedding album and can almost be described as a cross between an photo album and a coffee table book. A true coffee table book may consist of pages designed in the 'magazine style' However the coffee table wedding album differs from flush mount albums as it's pages are thinner and resemble those found in conventional coffee table book, rather than a photo album. Sometimes when applied to wedding albums, the terms album and book are mistakenly interchanged. Often completely different terms such as digital montage wedding album or storybook wedding albums are applied as wedding professionals (particularly between the U.S.A., the UK and Australia) may apply different marketing terms to photo albums.

Front covers of digital photo albums may differ, In the case of the (flush mount) photo album the covers are mostly hard bound in leather, leatherette or vinyl. In the case of the coffee table photo books pages may have a wrap around photo and may be hard cover or soft cover. Flush mounted magazine style wedding albums often feature metallic inserts. Sometimes acrylic or metallic printed or wrap around photo front panels may be used. Some of these metal panels are laser etched others are embossed. These panels can be inset or inlayed into leather or leatherette hard covers. The covers of flush mount digital albums always consist of hard bound book covers whilst the pages containing the layouts are flush mounted photographic prints (preferably) or in some cases inkjet prints. The pages in flush mount magazine style wedding albums are mounted edge to edge . True coffee table wedding albums on the other hand, are a type of digital photo book and printed using 'digital offset' to produce a true book like appearance.

Magazine style refers to the style of layout that is characteristic of these photo albums and photo books. This is the similarity between the photo albums and photo books whilst the manufacturing process is the difference. The layout that is designed for these albums and photo books is usually a known as a digital montage, hence the term montage style wedding album is also another term used. The term style needs to be applied loosely as custom magazine style albums and photobooks may differ immensely in layout style from each other depending on their designer. All of these digital photo albums comprise of layouts designed using custom or template computer generated image composites. Also referred to as storybook albums because they narrate a story, particularly when used as wedding albums, the page designs of magazine style digital albums are said to have been inspired by fashion magazines. Whilst to some extent this is true, fashion magazines are quite different to most magazine style wedding albums and coffee table wedding albums on display in most photo studios. When designed competently however, these photo albums and photo books can look stylish and can take on a fashionable appearance, if their designer intends them to be as such.The function of magazine style digital wedding albums is to narrate the story of the wedding day using pictures and images, hence the term storybook wedding album. Often the wedding photographer will use detail images captured on the wedding day as well as text, graphics and colors for use in designing the album layout.

There are many uses for magazine style digital albums outside of wedding portraiture. These digital albums can be designed as flush mount photo albums or coffee table books and have uses as special occasions photo books, special events photo books, family portrait albums, corporate launches etc. the product sold on this website is unique in the sense that we have also added decorative illustrations and graphic art into our pages. This is a very time consuming exercise, however well worthwhile as it adds value to our photo albums.

Economic Benefits of Hard Bound, Flush Mount Digital Wedding Albums Coffee Table Wedding Books

Besides the potential for creativity and customization, the most obvious benefit for this type of photo album is the ability to reproduce subsequent copies of these photo books in various sizes economically. Once the design process has taken place and the finished layouts are stored as a digital image, they can be reproduced very easily. If required, the images that are placed in the album before the layout design has taken place, can be enhanced or manipulated .

Design Benefits of Hard Bound, Flush Mount Digital Wedding Albums.

The digital wedding album unlike the traditional photo album, the digital wedding album utilizes a little more fully the effort invested in a wedding photo shoot by the wedding photographer. Most photographers today produce an enormous amount of proofs many of which are not utilised, as most of the images in traditional wedding albums are never used to their fullest potential when photographs are simply stuck behind traditional album. Wedding photographers started designing wedding pages for digital wedding books in order to set a mood, theme or convey a story line of events.

About Our Digital Photo Album Service

Our page layout designs are montaged together with images that consist of photographs, montages and graphic artwork designs. Our service offers the option of a custom page layout design, template page design, the option for the photographer to combine our layouts in an fully digital wedding album, or a mixed traditional and digital album comprising of both traditional photography and digital layouts.

 

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