ATG Album Design Blog

Thinking about our guest book templates?  Well, here’s a full sample guest book for you to check out our designs….Denise & Mark’s e-session was incredible.  We actually built a set in our studio for them….

So I finally did it, I’ve upgraded to CS4 and I’m looking forward to all the new fun stuff that’s available.  In upgrading to CS4, just also wanted to let you all know that I’ll be posting a new set of templates for albums that will be called, ID sophistocate.  Something a bit different, but very cool and I think everyone will appreciate this new direction.  Something very cool is coming this way….stay posted…

Other products coming very soon, keep visiting our blog for updates.  Now that wedding season is slowing down for us because of Vegas’ insane heat, I’ll be more regular about updating the blog twice a week.

Happy Designing! Trish

In creating album designs, one of the greatest tools we have are keyboard short cuts.  Although I don’t go over them in my instructional dvd because I do my best to keep things very simple so absolutely anyone of any level of computer knowledge can use InDesign, I use them and over use them every chance I get.  Here are some very simple ones to get you started and get you into a rhythm so that you can take the steps you’ve learned to build albums and now fine tune them to build speed.

Apple N = New Document

Apple O = Open Existing Document

Apple D = Place command

Apple S = Save Document

Shift Apple S = Save As

Apple E = Export Document

, = Apply Foreground Color to rectangle or frame

Esc V = Selection Tool

A = Direct Selection Tool

\ = Line Tool

F = Rectangular Frame Tool

M = Rectangle Tool

R = Rotate Tool

G = Gradient Tool

H = Hand Tool

W = Will let you toggle between normal view and preview mode

These are basically all of the standard commands in album building with our system, so change it up, try it out and see how it can really add efficiency to your workflow.