desktop project part 2

gone are the days wherein we buy those thick albums with transparent plastic film on each page. alam nyo yun? yung bubuklatin yung parang plastic cover tapos insert pic or pics then balik yung plastic cover to protect & keep the photos in place. 😆 layouting is limited in such albums… and quite tedious if you make it like a scrapbook.

good thing we are now in the digital age… and take God for photoshop 🙂 because layouting has expanded in a totally different level.

which leads us to our 2nd project regarding the photos taken by our guests. we’re making our very own wedding album. 😀

most of you know that we were very particular in choosing a photographer with not only an eye for taking fresh photos but also extraordinary layouting skills. based on what we saw (and we did see A LOT), most photographers’ layouts kasi do not standout. parang pare-parehas lang cla. common. buti na lang we bumped into fol (and we’re so excited to see how he laid-out our artbook ;-)). kaya eto kami, feeling magaling mag-layout, gumagawa ng sarili naming album. 😆

here’s a sneak peak of a spread we have done so far:


this is the very first spread we were able to make. they say that a great layout should be able to tell a story. we were blessed enough to have an image sequence in our photo collection and the layout revolved around those pictures for easier image storytelling. 🙂


here are the unedited photos used for the layout. first 3 photos by our friend vena. he was the ONLY guest to able to capture the unorthodox bridal walk. maybe it was so unconventional that most were not ready to capture the moment. 😆
the last photo was taken by our churchmate/musician friend during their practice session just hours before the event.

we’re no professionals but here is how we arrived into the final layout:
a) so that it would not look too cluttered, try to choose a single photo/image and let everything else revolve around it. in this case, we chose one of the wedding photos-of-the-day finalist.
b) for easy storytelling, succeeding photos should somehow relate to the main photo. the other 2 pictures create the bridal walk image sequence. the violin suggests the mood at the time.
c) add accents like graphics and/or text on open spaces. don’t make it to catchy as it might distract the viewer from the main image. we chose to add a sun graphic to further emphasize that it is a sunrise wedding. also, added the time during that moment for that added detail.
d) arrange the photos in such a way that the viewer’s eyes will not go all over the place. use cropping, the use of black & white images, color management and other techniques to achieve this.

that is how we came up with out layout. happy naman kami. 🙂 we still have A LOT of photos to layout kaya this will take a while. we plan to do this also for our honeymoon pictures… and other pictures, as well. 😉