Just a quick ‘heads-up’ that Photojunction (and Queensberry) will be closed on Friday 2 April through to Monday 5 April (New Zealand time), as we celebrate Easter over an extra long weekend.
Please feel free to email or leave us a message during that time and we’ll get back to you on Tuesday.
Cheers, Nigel
Our dear friend, Ian.
Most of you haven’t met him, but there’s a good chance he’s saved your bacon once or twice.
Ian Cameron has been a crucial member of the Photojunction team, and is leaving us to head back down-the-line to his home town.
The trend in the tech industry is to skip jobs every 18 months or so looking for the new best thing, but that hasn’t been the case for us and certainly not for Ian. Ian has been with us for 6 years, I hazard a guess he’s answered over 40,000 emails and 12,000 phone calls! This doesn’t include tireless work on resources, bug busting, and in the ol’ days, CD burning.
Ian, mate – thanks for the years and years of support, and we wish you the absolute best going forward.
Cheers
Danny (on behalf of everyone at Photojunction and Queensberry)
PS If Ian has helped you out once or twice and left an impression please let him know by leaving a comment.
PPS Looking forward to our Final Kebab!
March 22nd, 2010 in Album Design / Tips by Nigel
The absolute easiest way to get up and running with Photojunction is to jump on one of our free Intro to Photojunction webinars.
So if you’re a new PJ convert – there were plenty from WPPI and FOCUS – or just want a good PJ refresher, join us for our next Intro to Photojunction webinar scheduled for 10am this Wednesday (NZT).
Danny will show you how to fire up the software and start using it, walking you through everything from registering, to designing an album, to exporting and sending… And he’ll also talk about the recent integration with albumexposure.
We’d love you to join us for this free opportunity to see Photojunction in the flesh, see what’s new, and ask questions.
See you there!
Cheers, Nigel
If you haven’t heard, Photojunction and albumexposure have teamed up to bring you online album proofing direct from within Photojunction.
We’ve had some great feedback since we announced (on Twitter especially) and wanted to share some of it with you 
@bluesky_photo: Just seen this – what an incredible concept! Brilliant idea @jeffyoungren , thanks to v clever @photojunction + @albumexposure
@loripaladino: HOORAY!!!! Photojunction 1.38b and @albumexposure http://bit.ly/bdbnoJ
@muyiwa: Thanks to Photojunction, I am no longer terrified of clients wanting to make changes to their album! 
@EricOConnor: If you pre-design albums this is a big deal. http://bit.ly/bNrA6o via @albumexposure @photojunction
@JeffYoungren: So Stoked that @PhotoJunction and @AlbumExposure are now friends – the ULTIMATE Album workflow!! http://bit.ly/bNrA6o
@WeddingsByRyan: Another beautiful album designed and sent for preview. Thank you #Photojunction. Thank you #AlbumExposure
Cheers, Danny (and Jared and Gary the albumexposure guys)
PS check out our mentions blog to see what others are saying about us.
In our latest beta we’ve been doing all the normal things like fixing bugs and tweaking the Queensberry order process but you can read about that in our release notes – I’m excited and I want to jump to our headline!
Imagine being able to present your album online and get your clients’ feedback and approval from directly within Photojunction.
Photojunction has teamed up with albumexposure, the contagiously easy online album proofing tool. We’ve integrated things so you can register with albumexposure directly in Photojunction and upload your design from PJ to your albumexposure account in just a moment or two.
AND when your clients comment on the proofs you’ll see their comments in Photojunction! It’s amazing and we should’ve done this sooner (thanks to @jeffyoungren for suggesting it).
So download and fire up v1.38b. You’ll find a new pane in Preferences where you can register with albumexposure, or you can get going on the fly while you’re album planning.
You can also watch a short 6min demo video on our Youtube or Vimeo channels.
Please do check out albumexposure. It’s an awesome service. We met Jared and Gary at WPPI, they’re great guys and they’re offering free test drives!
Cheers, Danny
PS Yep, you can proof your Queensberry albums this way – or any other vendor you’re using if you like.
PPS: Think of this as the last in our tips-and-tricks series on PJ’s presentation tools!
March 14th, 2010 in Album Design / Tips by Danny
Check out the Reports feature in Photojunction. They’re good for the business end of the album process, like signing off designs and handling edits.
Album Menu > Generate Reports
Photojunction creates reports as PDFs so they’re ideal for sending to clients.
Here’s an example of a page from a Album Report (Small images) – click to enlarge:
There’s several other report options to choose from, so have a play and see which best suits your needs.
Cheers, Danny
March 12th, 2010 in Album Design / Tips by Danny
If our presentation tools aren’t your thing for whatever reason, we’ve made it easy (and flexible) for you to export proof layouts…
That way you can use your Photojunction designed layouts in your favourite web gallery, slideshow creator etc…
There are a few self explanatory options, so have a play.
Photojunction saves the layouts as JPEGs – here’s an example of a Proof Layout:
To get there:
Album menu > Export > Proof Layouts
Cheers, Danny
March 8th, 2010 in Album Design / Tips by Danny
All the options in Slide show can be set as defaults in preferences. Big time saver.
Cheers, Danny
March 3rd, 2010 in Album Design / Tips by Danny
Photojunction’s Slideshow creator might not be the most full featured app out there, but it’s certainly one of the quickest and it outputs the smallest file size around.
Same deal as Proof Sheets. Right click on the Group or Collection you want to create the slideshow from, and select ‘Create Slideshow’.
Or take the long way round…
Create a new product and select Slideshow from the Project Setup window.
Otherwise, you can also right-click on any layout in the Preview window and select ‘Create Slideshow’.
Here’s a couple of previous posts about Remix’s slideshow feature…
Cheers, Danny
March 2nd, 2010 in Album Design / Tips by Danny
All Proof Sheet options can be set as defaults in Photojunction’s Preferences to reflect your preferred and most commonly used settings…a big time saver for a big time saver.
To get there: Photojunction > Preferences > Proof Sheets
And if you didn’t even know we had proof sheets, click here.
Cheers, Danny
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