Everyone has an opinion and preference on what software or method is the best to design albums.  I use Adobe In Design and I love it!!!  I recently started using a set of In Design templates especially for designing albums and have to say, that is has helped speed up my work flow quite a bit…about 30-40%.  The templates were designed by Ben and Laura Harrison of Ben Harrison Photography…two killer photographers based in Grand Rapids, MI.  If you haven’t seen their work, check it out, it is fresh, fun, and elegant…THEY ROCK!

      The template set includes 65 different templates for 5 different size albums, including 8×8, 10×10, 12×12, 9×12, and 11×14.  Each set for each size, also comes with black designs with white keylines and white designs with black keylines.  The templates are what I call a timeless design, with a clean and sleek layout, that is not too trendy and won’t become dated in a few years.  I’ve been using In Design to design my albums for about six months and it has totally changed the way I design albums and how efficient I am with doing so.  These templates have made me that much more efficient as I no longer have to keep creating layouts from scratch and I can add my own templates to the sets as I create them making them more and more powerful.  As you know time is money and being more efficient, has saved me time and money AND I like the album designs I have made with the templates better too!

      The templates are great, but what is even better (especially for those of you out there new to In Design) Ben and Laura have included around 20 instructional videos to get your album design rocking with In Design.  These aren’t videos on how to use all the features of In Design, but are for simply churning out stunning albums in a short amount of time.  They teach you the basics that are needed to design an album quickly and efficiently using Adobe’s page layout software In Design.  The videos are done by Ben and are short and to the point and are seperated and titled in a way that you can only watch the ones you need to to get going.  I was pretty comfortable with In Design before I started using these templates, but watched all of them to make sure there weren’t things I was missing that would make my design process even quicker.  There were a few more things I learned that I did not know from the videos, so I am thankful I watched them all!

These templates have helped me so much, I just wanted to share the experience I have had in hopes it will help some of you!

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE TEMPLATES!!!!!