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Album design guides
What's worth knowing so an album reads well and prints well. Written for wedding and portrait photographers, whether or not you use our software.
How to design a wedding album, step by step
How many photos to include, how to sequence the day into scenes, how to compose each spread and how to close the couple's review without endless rounds.
Read the guide →Wedding album sizes and resolution in pixels
Common sizes and what each is good for, a table with the pixels of each spread at 300 PPI and how far you can crop a photo.
Read the guide →Preparing an album for print
Bleed, safe area, spine, colour profile and the checklist before sending your files to the lab.
Read the guide →Missing something?
If there's a part of the craft you'd like explained —a specific lab, the cover, parents' albums—, write to hola@cajista.com.