Pixellu SmartAlbums Features
The easiest way to design your albums.
Pixellu® SmartAlbums® puts thousands of professionally-designed templates at your fingertips, while giving you full creative freedom. Select your images, drag and drop, and immediately see a design. It’s that simple. With beautiful layouts to choose from, easy customization, and time-saving technologies, there is no better way to design your album.
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The Pixellu SmartAlbums software is just that, seriously smart!
Astounding speed.
Drop your images onto the Timeline and see your spreads come to life with each click. It feels magical, and yet makes perfect sense.
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Peace of mind.
Forget bleeds, safe zones, and all other print jargon; SmartAlbums has got you covered! Select from dozens of available lab company presets and rest easy knowing your album files are accurate and print-ready.
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SmartAlbums does to album design what digital did to photography. A total revolution, there is nothing like it. I have tried many solutions in the last 10 years and SmartAlbums blows everything out of the water.
An entirely new way to communicate with your clients.
The all-new Cloud Proofing doesn’t just work seamlessly with SmartAlbums, it makes the entire album design process effortless and fun. Easily share a beautiful presentation of the album draft with your clients and review their comments and feedback without ever leaving the application. SmartAlbums gets you from design to done in no time.
Now I actually take pride in designing albums. Because of SmartAlbums, I broke records in album sales this past year.
Other Features
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7-Day Customer Support
Customers are a top priority at Pixellu. Enjoy friendly, world-class support every day of the week, easy-to-understand video tutorials, and helpful articles during off hours.
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Helpful Warnings
SmartAlbums analyzes your album and warns you of any potential issues, helping you catch problems early. Have peace of mind knowing every album will be prepared to perfection.
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Export to Photoshop & InDesign
Export to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign in fully layered PSD & IDML formats to seamlessly connect SmartAlbums to your current workflow.
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Template Popularity
Choose to show your top templates more often by “favoriting” them, and hide others by opting to “reject”.
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Resize Album
Change the album size of your design at any time, allowing for fast and easy album upgrades and changes.
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Import Formats
Import a wide range of file formats, including JPG, TIFF, PNG, and PSD.
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Lightroom and Bridge Ratings
Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Bridge star ratings and color labels are imported along with your images, allowing you to sort the images based on those ratings.
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Gap Control
SmartAlbums enables you to be very precise with the spacing between images, ensuring gap consistency throughout the album.
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Face Detection
When an image must be cropped, such as with square frames, SmartAlbums automatically repositions the image inside the frame to avoid cropping faces.
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Handcrafted Templates
Human beings perceive beauty; computers don’t. This is why every single layout in SmartAlbums is hand crafted by a professional graphic artist, not a mathematical algorithm.
What is Cloud Proofing?
Cloud Proofing is a feature within Pixellu SmartAlbums which allows you to send an album draft directly to your client in the form of a web link. Once your client opens the link on their computer or tablet, they’ll see a beautiful album presentation and have the ability to leave feedback via the commenting feature. The comments conveniently appear in SmartAlbums allowing the photographer to easily review client feedback and complete requested changes.
Examples of proofing site (Click on a thumbnail to view an album draft)
Cloud Proofing pricing
One year of free Cloud Proofing is included with your purchase of Pixellu SmartAlbums 2. After the first year, Cloud Proofing is an optional subscription at $199/year or $19/month.