While I LOVE shooting, the one thing I’ve never been very good at is layout.  It’s amazing what a difference there is between a good layout and an amateur layout. A good layout can highlights how powerful and dramatic your …

Check out this beautiful new book by Anna Jones Photography! The wedding is of Erin and JJ Bailey which took place at the Jasper Winery in Des Moines. Anna did a custom version of our Berlin style.  I already loved …

I always love an excuse to get down to San Diego, and I now have the perfect excuse: the Photo Video West show next month! The show runs on April 27-28,2013, and you can visit us at Booth 314. The …

I’m so excited about everything coming together for the WPPI show this year (March 11-13 in Las Vegas)! I can’t wait to show off all of the new great stuff we have planned for WPPI including: Our 50% off show …

  I always love this time of year! It’s the season for trade-shows and workshops and all sorts of conferences. I get to see lots of old friends that I haven’t seen for a while (at least not since the …

Hey everyone! If you are going to be in the NYC area this week (25th, 26th, and 27th), make sure you swing by the PhotoPlus Expo and say hello. We’re going to be at booth 269, we’ll have a ton …

Wonderful book video from LUMI Photography:  Natalie and Austin’s Wedding Album We LOVE the simple and clean layout!  It truly showcases the beautiful photography and tells the story of their wedding day. To view the original blog post click HERE. …

While the original Roma style is very popular, we’ve had a lot of requests for this new design, so we’re making it a permanent part of our collection! I think this new single strap gives the Roma a very elegant, …

Here at COUTURE BOOK we are constantly inspired by the beautiful and creative books that come through our bindery.  These two from Laura Negri Photography in Atalanta, GA excited us so much we wanted to share them with you! The …

We are happy to announce the release of our super simple Photoshop Script that makes generating the perfect cover template a snap! DOWNLOAD the file here Installation Instructions: Copy the .jsx file to the following place: Mac: ~/Applications/Adobe Photoshop/Presets/Scripts PC: c:\Program …

We’re getting ready for a bunch of conferences this year, and I wanted to keep everyone updated.  We can’t wait to get out there to catch up with everyone again and meet up with new friends! Here’s a list of …

Oh boy, I cannot say enough good things about this book design! This is a family history book created by an amazing designer out of NYC, Maria Mayer Feng.   She has designed a lot of really interesting and cool books …

While each book does have a default paper stock that it’s printed on, we do have five different stocks available to choose from for no additional cost.   To see those stocks, we have a paper sample set that you …

While I LOVE the book design tool in Aperture, there is one big issue: there is no easy one-click way to generate a preview for your customers. The good news is there is a way to do it! In a …

Check out this cool promo video from Mango Studios: Liona and Michael Wedding Album from Mango Studios on Vimeo. I LOVE how they go through every single page!   I think this is such a great way to show off …

We were so excited to see this Cannes book come together from Paula Romein and Barend Hountsmuller.   The images were great, and the design and layout was beautiful, and the cover layout really took advantage of the wrap around cover …

Stamping and embossing text on a cover or spine of a book is a great way to customize and add an extra touch to a book.  The text is hot stamped into the material, so you get a nice debossed …

We try to make it very easy to create your own custom layouts.  Not only do we have a design plug-in for Aperture, but if you want to use any other design program for your layouts, we try to make …

One of the most popular options for our books is the printed vellum page.  This is a semi-transparent page that can be inserted anywhere in the book, and can have anything you like printed on them, from and image, to …

When we started COUTURE BOOK, we did it because we weren’t satisfied with the boring, stale board style albums that were available.  We wanted our images to be presented in fine-art style books just like the coffee-table books that we …