Fast and Easy – Custom Layouts with Aperture

If you haven’t seen it yet, you gotta check out our new Aperture 3.0 plug-in: http://www.CoutureBook.com/Aperture

We love Apple’s Aperture for their book layout tool.  It’s just so easy to use, and once you create your first book, each book afterward just gets easier and easier.  Aperture can save custom templates as you create them, making that future books so much faster to design.  Even if you use another program for your image editing, the design piece of Aperture makes it worth your while to check it out.  Here’s the link to download the trial version: Aperture

Once you have installed Aperture and our plug-in, here’s how to get started with a book design for COUTURE BOOK, and how export it to us when done:

First, select the image you want to use (highlight the images at the bottom or hold “Command A” to select all of them).  Then click on the “New” link at the top, and select book.

Second, this should open a new window with all of the book options available.

Third, in the “Book Type” drop down window, you can choose COUTURE BOOK.

Fourth, once you have book picked, you can then pick the size of book you want to design, and name your project.

After that, you’ll go through and design your book layouts.  Keep in mind that the provided templates can all be adjusted and you can even make and save your own templates for future COUTURE BOOK project.

Lastly, when your book design is completed, just hit the “Send Book” link in the upper right to send the book to COUTURE BOOK.   This will then connect you to COUTURE BOOK, and will walk you through the ordering process.   You’ll be able to pick out your book style and all of the options associated with that style.

If you do choose a book with a designed cover layout or cover image, we’ll follow up after you place your order with instructions on how to upload the cover image(s) separately.

Hope you like the new plug-in, and please let us know if you have any questions comments on it.

Happy Designing!!

-Dave