brooke_marcellino

<p>Hello,<br>

I've never designed a wedding album before. I've been reading previous posts on this topic. I need to learn from scratch. I'm starting a business with my partner, and we want to offer albums, once we can learn how to produce them. I really want to design my own albums, once I have the knowledge. Thanks to this forum, we have learned all about the companies that can bind and print albums, but I need tutorials on how to design them myself, because right now I'm a bit clueless. <br>

From past posts, I gather that I can learn about this process from avhow.com and lumapix.com. AVHOW is about half the price of LUMAPIX, but lumapix has it's own software, and avhow teaches you how to create albums with PS. <br>

Any advice as to which I should go with? Which is more helpful and easier to work with if you are a beginner? Many of you have been designing albums for years, how did you start when you had no clue what you were doing?<br>

Cheers,<br>

Brooke</p>

<p>I've never shot in RAW, would like to try it out, but I just read the recent post about it and I'm a little confused. It was stated that you need conversion software to work with raw files. What is this software? Does Lightroom do it automatically, or do I need to buy additional software? I had the trial version of lightroom 2 and plan to actually buy it soon as my primary editing tool, so do I also need to buy additional raw conversion software for lightroom 2? I also have Elements 7 and a really old version of PhotoShop- 5.<br>

Thanks!</p>