Ready to print Files

For photographers who are completely autonomous in the creation of layouts and page composition using their own software (for example Photoshop®), both on Macintosh® and Windows®, Album Epoca is the highest quality solution for printing and binding directly from a file, supplied following technical indications.

Album Epoca is the highest quality solution for creating an excellent wedding album. For photographers who are completely autonomous in the creation of layouts and page composition using their own software (for example Photoshop®), both on Macintosh® and Windows®, printing and binding directly from a file services are available, supplied following technical indications.

1. Create your pages design using your favorite software;
2. Give an order to your files by renaming them according to a numeric sequence;
3. Send your files to our lab (requires login)

NOTE: If you are not using our size templates, please make sure to consider a crop tolerance area of 0,4 inches.

Below you can find and download some useful tools to improve the speed and the quality of your work. For a collection of the most useful free batch renames utilities, click here.

TEMPLATES: Page templates are the easiest way to start creating a new project, since they give you exact page size and crop tolerance zone guides (if you use Adobe Photoshop). Our templates have 254 DPI resolution, which is optimal for our photographic printers; the included crop tolerance areas, made by guides, represent the maximum crop.

COVER PHOTO REFERENCE: If you chose a cover with photo, you can download here the PDF reference to know the exact measures to use for composing your image. This document includes all the 2009 cover models. All you have to do is prepare an image sized as descripted and save it at 254 DPI, then upload it through the Web.

CROP AREA PLACEMENT TUTORIAL: A quickstart guide to learn the correct placement method of your photos close to the page margin, to avoid unwanted blank stripes and/or crop mistakes.

COLOR PROFILE: Info

BATCH FILE RENAME UTILITIES: To rename your files and make them chronologically ordered, you can use a program which helps you doing it in batch mode.
Shell Batch Rename is a free, easy and quick utility for Windows© which helps you to make the work. We heartily suggest to use it, but on the Web you can find many other similar free utilities. On Mac, you can use FileWrangler or NameMangler.