Danny and Nigel have now finished a movie about the latest release (see below).

To be honest, I didn’t feel that excited about v1.25 … until I saw the movie. The new features don’t sound that exciting in print, but I reckon the movie will wake you up to the possibilities. If you want to upgrade from Retro … store your files where you like … use Remix over a network … organise or use templates … there’s plenty here for you.

(make sure to click ‘full screen’ – bottom right hand corner – after the movie starts)

Of course if you’re not into movies you could read my notes I guess

1. First introduced in the beta release v1.22, the “portable projects” feature means you can now easily move projects around between different computers, or use Remix across a network. Each project folder includes all the data Remix needs to work on a particular job, including the low-res proxies. We made a separate movie about this feature at the time of the last beta release.

2. You can now position apertures by entering coordinates: select an aperture or apertures, right
click and position them by entering a distance to the left, top, bottom or right of the layout.

3. You can now import Retro .PJF files (under the File menu). Take care: we have tested this thoroughly, but please let us know if you discover any problems. TWO KNOWN ISSUES: Retro’s lines are not supported by Remix; apertures rotated in Retro will need to be adjusted after importing into Remix.

4. The Open in Editor and PS Actions buttons now allow you to open and edit a cropped, resized duplicate of the original image so you can (eg) add vignettes.

5. You can now move templates from one collection to another by dragging and dropping.

6. Shift-dragging templates (which adds a group of apertures rather than the layout) no longer deletes the existing apertures on the layout.

7. So that Remix can more accurately reflect album suppliers’ requirements, the total number of layouts allowed in album now includes the total permissible flips and wings. Remix will warn you if you add more layouts, wings and/or flips than allowed, but not allow you to

9. Images can now be deleted from a Collection when reviewing full screen.

10. Asuka book exported layouts are now named correctly.

11. Images can now be double clicked on the album design window to view full them screen.

12. Selecting any QBY resources in Check For Updates will now download all available
QBY resources.

13. Vendors using the Supplier version only: Mat Cutter registration is now required to cut mats, and you can now add a new Studio in the Supplier Version.

14. Between them, v1.22 (beta) and 1.25 also include 40 bug fixes, which you can read about in the release notes.

Cheers, Ian

Well, we made Photojunction free … now what?

After yesterday’s new final we’re finalising the development schedule for the next few months.

It’s always been our goal to make Photojunction the software of choice for wedding and portrait photographers, and we really appreciate the support we get from the thousands of photographers who use it.

But we do also recognise that there are four areas where people struggle, or where we can see strong opportunities for improvement.

1, While most people fly through the set up procedure, some people struggle. Maybe it doesn’t work as they expect, and therefore the task looks a little overwhelming. Our goal is to make getting started really easy and straight forward.

2, Some people think of Photojunction as a tool for matted albums, and although it does a brilliant job of laying out digital albums we recognise that there are some cool things we could do to make it both more obvious and even more powerful.

3, Once the album is complete, some people get overwhelmed with “what next?” – how to export, how to order, how to FTP their files. This area will get an overhaul in the next few months to make it very simple and straight forward.

4, We anxiously want to retire Photojunction Retro but realise there is still functionality that Remix doesn’t have, eg the portrait and proof sheet modules.

So our question is, what next?

If you use other portrait sales software such as Pro Select what do you love about it? We want to bring this functionality forward from Retro … but only if it’s world class.

Are there things not on the list above that you think are more urgent?

If you prefer other template software, what is it that you think we could do better?

Again, thanks so much for your support so far. Tell your friends we’ve started a discussion here on Facebook about how to make Photojunction even better. We hope you’ll contribute, we’d love your opinion.

Cheers, Stephen

We’ve launched a new version of Photojunction today, version 1.25. It’s a final and has plenty of new features and fixes which you can read about in the release notes. If you haven’t been installing our beta releases we recommend you check out this post about v1.22. It introduces “portable projects” and includes a brief tutorial movie.

We’ll publish a more thorough post and a movie about the release early next week. Meantime, enjoy the new software!

Cheers, Danny

Photojunction finally made it to Facebook.

We like to think we’re early adopters but we’ve been behind the eight ball with this. Time just hasn’t stood still for a while!

Since you’ve probably beaten us to it, it’ll be super easy to link up. If you’re already on Facebook just click here to become a Photojunction fan-boy (as Danny would say).

Team PJ will be hanging out on our page so please chat, leave comments, ask questions or give us feedback. We’ll also be updating it with the latest news, posts and newsletters so you’ll always be plugged into to what’s happening at PJ.

Hope to see you there.

Cheers, Nigel

PS remember Danny and Stephen are on Twitter too. To follow them add:

Danny: twitter.com/PJ_danny
Stephen: twitter.com/stephenbaugh