![]() Our not-all-that powerful Mac (2.6GHz Core i7 with 16GB of RAM) had no trouble with albums spanning over 100 images. Under the hood, the new software has improved memory optimization so your PC won’t choke on large albums. This isn’t a one-click pony-some images tend to need realignment and you’ll likely find yourself moving a few around or resizing them on a page-but it gives you a great “first draft” album to build off of with the click of a button.Īside from improved organization, the main attraction is speed. You can further refine your pool of images using several Fundy-specific tags (Main Image, Cover Photo, Panoramic). ![]() By default, Fundy organizes images by date and time on the (sensible) theory that you’ll want to design your album to track with a wedding day’s chronology. With the ability to sort imported images by star ratings, keywords, date, etc., you can quickly canvas large collections of images to find the one you need for a given page. The image browsing experience has been vastly improved since v6. As you finish your album and export it, Fundy will check it against the design specs of the lab you’ve chosen to make sure you’ve met the required page counts and that images are sufficiently high-res to print. The tools that are there are usually accompanied by a brief explanation that will pop up on the screen about a second after you hover your mouse over an icon. Adding images to pages is as simple as dragging and dropping them into place Fundy’s “drop zone” technology automatically rearranges images to accommodate your additions, all within the parameters of your given album.įundy’s UI is fairly minimalistic and sleek-it’s not overflowing with toolbars and widgets. Every style you choose can be further customized and saved for future use. There are other software titles that can compile images into albums, but Fundy’s Quick Designer Picker delivers over 150 choices that themselves can be quickly refined, creating more possible design styles than we can count. Once you’ve made that choice, you import a batch of JPEG images and begin the design process. Every album starts by choosing whether you want to design an album for output at a specific lab (Fundy stores specs on thousands of album styles from over 110 U.S.-based labs) or create a custom album that doesn’t necessarily conform to any one lab’s requirements. If you’ve never used older versions of Fundy-heck, if you’ve never used any album-building software before-it won’t take you very long at all to get up to speed with Designer v7. Outside of three Fundy-specific image tags, you can also add keywords and stars to images in Fundy and have that data travel back with the images into Lightroom or Photo Mechanic. Fundy Designer can now read star tags and keywords from programs like Lightroom or Photo Mechanic. There’s now a full-blown image browser where you can organize images, add tags and stars, and sort through your imported images. Image browsing and organizing within the program have also been upgraded. Access to albums, wall gallery designs and blog collages are all available now in the main interface. Images and tools once arrayed along the left rail are now laid out on the bottom or top of the program, freeing up space to view your album pages more organically. The pale gray background has been replaced with clean white. The user interface (UI) has been redesigned. ![]() While it’s faithful to this mission, Version 7 represents a substantial update. There are plenty of changes in v7, so it makes sense to reaffirm what hasn’t changed: Fundy Designer is still centered on template-free album building. ![]() Fundy Designer is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems for $299 for new users and for $199 for anyone upgrading from an older version of the software. After version 7 was announced at WPPI, we were able to put the program through its paces. It’s an album-building tool that enables you to quickly assemble your own print album rather than pay a third party to do it for you. Few photographers need to be reminded of the old truism that “time is money.” Fundy Designer was built with this ethos in mind.
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