I am currently taking the fantastic new Albumstomp software for a spin. If you read my review it might get you a 5% discount code!

After falling hard in love with Blogstomp (you can read my gushy, in-love post here and get a discount if you don’t have it already) it just seemed natural that I should snatch up anything that the stomp team put out there.

The new Stomp software has been created to help professional photographers build awesome looking photo albums quicky, efficiently and easily.

Lets get rocking…

Now, we all know that I am so far away from the professional that the programme is aimed at but, goodness knows we have a few pictures, and call us old fashioned, but there is nothing like flicking through a PHYSICAL album…so we decided to give it a go as a regular, non-professional person. A regular person who is not ready to accept that digital images can replace the soft spot we all have in our hearts for a physical picture that you can touch and enjoy looking at without giving yourself square eyes or RSI.

Of course if you are a professional photographer and spend hours grueling over layouts of album pages, if you are constantly re-setting margins, borders and strokes and dreaming of form free design then you need to be ALL OVER THIS!

1) Start an album!

Stop moving images around into folders to arrange them into albums, just drag their pretty little asses into AlbumStomp from Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, PhotoMechanic, Finder, iPhoto, or wherever you prefer to store and sort your images…it is that simple, even I can do that bit.

2) 10 seconds of becoming familiar and your can navigate.. its that good.

3) Drag and drop some images! Yep drag and drop.

Albumstomp does NOT disappoint, as with blogstomp, it is slick, clean and stupid person friendly (me being the stupid person).

Watching the 1 minute, 28 second help video on the website I couldn’t help but think that it just seemed too short, too good to be true, but the programme simply is that easy to use. Everything is self explanatory, drag and drop features are abound and simple, yet crazy effective tools are the rule.

I had one small hurdle to get over before I could start building my album of images, the programme was not responding immediately after I had installed it, however, it was a ridiculously easy problem to fix. I  simply clicked the ‘help’ button and then the ‘send settings to albumstomp’ option and suddenly it was magically working.

Once it was up and running I managed to create 6 double page spreads, using over 25 images from different sources and even including text, all within 20 minutes.

4) Throw them in Shuffle them about.

All of this is being said before I even mention the down right genius of the ‘Mix it up’ button, which you will be familiar with from blogstomp. Rack up the images, throw them at the page and click that mix it up button til you are singing with happiness at the gorgeousness of your layout and how easy it was to create it!

The stomp team have done it again. Awesome customer service from such a small team of 3 and a half men and fantastic responsive programming.

5) Activate Stomp a tron… bottom right!

The next hurdle I had was due to me being a regular person, not the professional photographer that Albumstomp is aimed at. I had no idea what to do with my gorgeous album once it was exported and sitting pretty on my desktop…did I need to pick me up a 3D printer and physically build that sucker?

I emailed the ever helpful team playing the blonde card and they kindly replied with the following

“AlbumStomp is firmly aimed at the professional which is why that mightn’t be so obvious for you!  No blonde moment at all.

Pros will have an album company they use and be fairly familiar with their offering – and as a bonus really we’ve added a handful of more popular (pro) suppliers.

So in short, it depends on your printer/lab/album company.”

Ever polite and ever helpful… As you where kind enough to read my review you will get an extra 5% off using this discount code 2PEOPLE1LIFELOVESBLOGSTOMP (ALL CAPS!) enter it when prompted on the purchase page.

So go treat yourself and save hundreds of hours of work! – Albumstomp! 

6) The Album will save to your desktop… ready to be sent off to the printers!