Partial Transparency is now supported!

A new update to the PhotoAlbum online design tool was posted today to provide full support for partial transparency in files such as PNG format. Partial transparency is popular in artwork provided from various scrapbooking sites and is often used for things like frames or elements intended to "blend in" with any background elements.

We have updated the design tool along with the PDF creation system to now support these partially transparent files. If you have previously uploaded artwork with partial transparency then please contact us so we can reconvert your artwork, otherwise you can just upload these files again.

Transparency is recognized in artwork as it is uploaded to the design tool and the resulting images in the Your Photos tab will maintain the original transparency.

How to build a flipbook

Online digital flipbooks are becoming more popular as a way to to both share your digital designs with others and a method for publishing content online. There are a number of sources for publishing digital flipbooks but most either have a cost factor involved - or they require your original content to already be in PDF format.

Using your free account with photoalbum.com and the browser based design tool, you can both create your content and share it as a beautiful online flipbook. These books can be embeded to your blog or website or even included into your ebay auctions.

To read more see this:
http://www.photoalbum.com/how_to_make_flip_book.html

Update to PhotoAlbum Design tool

Sorry for the lack of postings. Some are better at blogging than others 8-)

We have updated the online design tool so that placed artwrok appears on the page at full size. So now if you upload 300 DPI images and drag and drop them to your design - they will place at the full size of the image. This will save time in not having to scale up images as has been the case in the past.

Check out this great scrapbook

Here is a really nice book by one of our users:

http://tinyurl.com/6mt9c9

Site Updates in the coming days

The PhotoAlbum.com website will be going through a number of changes in the coming days. We are glad to have feedback from users and are trying our best to improve the ease of use. Our plans are to include product descriptions and pricing right on the home page. We also will be providing direct links to the online design tool from each product category. This will allow you to select the kind of scrapbook or photo book that you are interested in building and to the directly open the design tool to either the templates page or to a blank page for that book size.

Also in the coming months we will be introducing a new version of the online design tool. We are planning lots of improvements to make it easier to use and give it more powerful features. I would love to get your comments about features that you would like to see.


Some people have asked for features like Drop Shadows while others have asked for integrated design of book covers with the page design. Please write your requests and either send them to me or post them as comments here.

Thanks
David

Online sharing of your photo books

We are really excited about the cool new feature for building digital flipbooks of your online photo book layouts. This is a new feature that we will be developing more and more in the coming days. Right now it is a great way to see a proof of what your printed photo book will look like. They are easy to build and free.

Create your account and design your pages and then use the Publish option in the MY Designs section to create your online digital page flip book.

You have full creative control to build the design you like and then to convert that design into a electronic paper format that you can share with others.

Use your PhotoAlbum.com digital flip book for many purposes. Send them to friends and family. Got something nice you would like to sell on Ebay? Make a digital flip book of your ebay auction item and embed the flip book into the ebay auction layout.

More new Artwork

We have created a section in the Image Gallery called "New Artwork" as we place new artwork we will start by putting it in this section first and then move to one of the permanent categories.

I also would love to invite users to submit their own artwork for inclusion in our image gallery. Please send me an email with the label of your artwork and you user name and indicate your permission for us to post your artwork.

Please also send us your comments about the site.

David Lewis