Gary is a professional event photographer.  He wrote a testimonial about Dg Foto Art

This shows the importance of making the investment into a specifically designed photo album software package.

Of course nobody can knock Adobe’s Photoshop CS3 for its functionality.  As a piece of widely used software to edit and manipulate photos it is second to none – and the commercial success of this system supports that.  But is it the best system for album production?

Functionality breeds complexity.  With complexity comes a reduction in usability.

You can layout pages anyway you like.  You can buy templates to help you give the album its artistic flavour.  An example of this is Album DS.  However this only serves to make an existing complex system even more complex.

So will a purpose designed package save time in your workflow?  

We have experience with Dg Foto Art from PXLsoft – marketed, amongst others by OPUSalbums.com in Europe.  It comes in two forms – a professional product – Gold (Windows and Mac) and Essentia – currently just Windows. 

Dg Foto Art Gold – the product for which the quote above was made is clearly designed to provide that functionally and artistic templates required by 99% of wedding and other celebratory album producers.  

That is in the following areas:

-         Photo organisation – selection of what picture to print

-         Layout of album pages – putting the pictures in position on a page

-         Backgrounds – putting a background picture modified to be a background

-         Photo editing – the functionality mostly needed

-         Photo printing and exporting

What editing functionality is required?   - Clearly not all the features in Photoshop CS2.  But you do need those that are most suited to wedding photography – advanced colour correction, glow, blur etc.

If there is some photo you really want to change you still have Photoshop – but keep its use to a minimum.

 What is Dg Foto Art Gold? 

Dg Foto Art Gold is the most comprehensive and advanced suite to create digital photo albums. This powerful engine has the capacity to create beautiful albums in minutes and so is known for its maximum output – for those professional users whose business depends on quality and efficiency.  Its powerful text editor comprises many Photoshop-type functions and advanced colour correction. To find out more about dg Foto Art Gold Click here.  To find out more about dg Foto Art Essentia Click here.