Show Off Your Dream - Christy Williams

Christy (of christy williams photography )  shared her beautiful 6x6 dream album with us. It was composed of precious baby images from various sessions and named "sweet confections"! How sweet.. She just uploaded 20 of 5x7 images to us with border option 2. We customized the border color to match the images and it came out to be so....elegantly finished album.

     

She says, "I could not wait for my dream book to arrive....and when it did, it was even more beautiful than I imagined!! Each and every creamy page is just exquisite and I cannot wait to share this beautiful bookwith my clients! Even the presentation box is a work of art and the perfect compliment to the album. Your customer service is just as wonderful as your albums, and you have certainly raised the bar for quality products in this industry. Thank you so much!!"

We so loved to hear that, Christy. Thank YOU!

-dream album team

Domestic shipping through UPS

We are so happy to let you know that we NOW ship all items through UPS to all US states.

This means the followings to you:

• more reliable - secure service
• accurate trackingh information
• expedite shipping to 2 day saver, 2 day, next day or saturday delivery available upon request
  (please inquire right after placing your orders)

and there is a slight change in shipping charge made effective starting 5/15/2009.

For international members, we are still discussing with Fedex and UPS to get the best pricing and service. Until we find what is best for you and us, we will keep using our long time friend USPS international priority. You can simply check the rate (which happens to be GREAT!) in our order page with your own zipcode.

If you find the quote from the system is incorrect (if it seems to be too high), please feel free to contact us. As the number of international members increased last couple of weeks, we may have found better way, but had not a chance to update ALL countries in our system YET.

And we will send more information as it gets available in our newsletter soon.

-dream album team

Update on May 20, 2009 at 12:57AM by Dream Album

We have started using UPS and learned so much lessons. Monday and Tuesday (of this week) were little off becuase the tracking information did not get out consistantly. So we had to manually go back and update all tracking information. If you had ordered earlier and did not receive the shipping notification, please let us know. There is a great chance that the notification did not get to you.

As of today (Wednesday 5/20) all orders will be sent out with shipping notification. We are very pleased with UPS service and we know you will like them so much more, too!

Update on May 29, 2009 at 12:30PM by Dream Album

We are hearing you all. Please stand by - we are lowering shipping cost dramatically by going ground. We learned that many of our members are in the range where ground can reach within 3-4 days which is almost the same as 3 day select service. This affects only domestic shipments. Thanks for the feed back!

Dear west cost members (including california, utah, washington... ), it may take up to 5 business days to get there.

But we DO offer upgrade shipping as needed basis. So if you have emergency, just email us when you place the order. There will be additional express shipping fee (depend on the location, the kind of service and the weight of the product).

International members - we stay with USPS. Thank you!

New Dream Box Design Template - Katy

Introducing our Katy. We are planning to add fresh / pretty templates to our collection.

All our templates and other fun design elements will be added to "design shop" at top navigation bar. http://thdreamalbum.squarespace.com/design-shop/ We are working on finalizingthem and super excited to share some of the images with you. All our templates are adjustable, easy to work with unflattened PSD files. We will talk more about it when they are released. (hoping to be this week!)

-dream album team

Design Tip: full bleed image cover, full impact

Everybody loves design dream album with full bleed IMAGE cover design. We are getting so much inquiries... and we love to share some of our trick how to design fabulous DREAM cover! something like below: is done by Dana Pugh (short and sweet photography). Her image was just so perfect for the cover and inside image.

However, more often we DO have our favorite images that are not quite perfect for PANORAMIC cover design. So here is what we did for Cindy Chen's awesome image. First, we layout cover template and the image to see what we want... 

and bring the image into the template file. make sure your guide lines are turned on. there is an excellent guideline instrucion at http://thedreamalbum.squarespace.com/blog-home/2008/10/28/cover-design-instruction.html  and arrange the image accordingly. we eneded up having the huge empty area on the back cover. we can add some cool pattern there, but we still like a full impact by full bleed image cover. so we just made a copy of current layer by Ctrl+J or Command+J and put both layers side by side. 

    

and flip over the back image to match the edge of the image to look like COUNTINUING~~~ and of course we want to clean up a little with clone tool... to polish~~~  

 

we can even change the concrete floor to look more real, but we will just stop here. it looks COOL enough.. right? 

so the cover will look just like that when it is made into album. you can add your logo in the back somewhere. Guess what? we will show you when this album is made.. 

Again, thanks so much for letting us using your image Cindy! We love it!!!

and here is the final product shot of when it is made. Amazing!!!!! We love it even more!!!

-dream album team

G.o.r.g.e.o.u.s. Baby Book - studio sample by Cheryl Muhr

Meet the GORGEOUS babaies by our friend Cheryl Muhr. We had made her studio samples (as well as displays at her recent Secret Workshop at Dallas) and fell in LOVE. It is 12x12 coffee table book, custom design layout by Eva at Luxecetera! Check this out!

   

  

no word needed.

-dream album team

Our friend - Luxecetera is NOW open!

Our friend Luxecetera's brand new website is NOW open. They do offer lots of great templates especially for Dream Album Products including albums, boxes and mats. Check them out!!!!!

Have we mentioned that Lisa Reichman (one of the fabulous three partners at Luxecetera) did our Dream Album Logo and the dreamy designs at the top left corner of our website? She had made some beautiful new borders for us as well. We will let you all know about that, soon!

We are so excited about their new site and we are sure you will find great stuff there, too!

Congratulations, Lisa + Ashley+ Eva!!!!

--Dream Album Team 

Show off your dream - Gillian Crane

We received this beautiful images from Gillian (GillianCrane.com), one of our happy clients and thought we wanted to share with you all. The top left image is of our fabulous Dream Box 8x10. Top right is from and back of the dream mat 8x10. Down right is Dream Box 5x7 with CD option with black inner box. They look prestine with her design. She also makes graphic designs for photographers. Aren't they gorgeous?

Please feel free to send us your dream product images (with no watermark please) to us. We would LOVE to see and hear what you've done with dream products and will show off seleted s.w.e.e.t dreams here with the link to your site. and when your image is selected, we also will reward you with our special thank you gift of $10.00 credit for the next order. 

-dream album team

Grand Opening Special

Dear dream photographers! We are so happy to offer you our GRAND OPENING SPECIAL. Take 15% off all dream products for five days. Yes! we did it and we don't want you to miss this great savings. * 15% discount applies to all dream products except our digital file items. Offer is valid through 11:59 PM ET Sun, April 26, 2009. Savings are reflected after promotional code GRAND15 is entered at checkout. *This offer cannot be combined with any other promotion (including sample discount). * All orders received during this promotion (4/22-4/26) will be processed together on 27-28th. Please count the turnaround time from 4/27. If you need to receive it by a certain date, please specify by email when you place order. We will do our best to deliver the items to you by then. --- Dream Album Team

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Thanks again and we look forward to working with you soon!

Dream Album Team

Introducing New Design Template - Amy

Meet with our Amy. We are planning to add fresh / pretty templates to our collection. Soon to add more!

All our templates and other fun design elements will be added to "design shop" at top navigation bar. http://thdreamalbum.squarespace.com/design-shop/  We are working on finalizing them and super excited to share some of the images with you. All our templates are adjustable, easy to work with unflattened PSD files. We will talk more about it when they are released.

dream album team