Millers Blog : Albums

New Album Templates in Design Market

Julie Brown — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:02:00 GMT

Check out our newest addition to the Miller’s Design Market – new Album templates for Weddings, Babies and Seniors. Each layout was designed exclusively for Miller’s square-sized Albums and LayFlats. After you’ve selected and purchased your templates, a link will be provided. Use the link to download the layouts, then add in your own images and text, creating fully-customized Albums for your clients. Album templates are now available for just $85! Shop here now.

Miller’s Album Quick Order - Coming Soon!

Julie Brown — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:48:00 GMT

We’re nearing the release of the new PC-and-Mac-compatible Album Quick Order. We're currently testing it internally and based on feedback, are confident that you’ll find it to be one of the easiest ordering applications available. Designed for users that do all their creative work ahead of time in Photoshop, it has been set up to place orders for Miller’s Albums and LayFlats quickly. Check out what the new application looks like and how simple it is to place an order:

Step 1: After naming your order, the first step is selecting your product. As you can see, AQO gives you the ability to order all Album and LayFlat offerings currently available through Miller’s.

Step 2: Once you’ve selected your product, your next step is choosing from our wide variety of cover selections.

Step 3: Add all desired options for your Album or Book by quickly scrolling down the list.

Step 4: Now you’re ready to upload your images. Once designs are uploaded, simply drag and drop each of them in to build the Album. If placing a pano image in your Album, click “pano” and it’ll automatically reconfigure to a panoramic layout. After all images are inserted, click the “Next” button. This’ll take you to the last step within the ordering process, where you’ll transmit the order.

Check back with us next week to hear how we're progressing with our testing, as well as to learn more about what other new products features will be included with the AQO roll-out!

Album & Book Options

Jason Becking — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:47:00 GMT

I was giving a tour of the Columbia lab this afternoon and ran into two Flush Mount album orders in process. Both happened to have the Etched Aluminum cover. It's simply cool! I'm also a big fan of the Brushed Copper cover. I realize it's not the cheapest item in the world to try on a whim, but they are cool.

Similarly, an order came through the lab a few days ago that caught our attention. At first glance, it appeared to be a case of duplicate orders. Each were 8x8 LayFlat Books with identical cover choices (Baby Blue leather with Silver Foil Stamping, including identical wording). Upon inspection, though, the books were each slightly different for the different family members -- one for dad, one for Grandpa #1, and one for Grandpa#2. At least that's what we guessed. Without many changes, they were able to use basically the same layout and order three different fantastic finished products.

We knew the idea of 'companions' had merit, especially for parent wedding albums. It was great to see someone using a slightly different twist, which was presumably made easier by ordering with our Remote Studio software.

The hardest thing at the moment when ordering an Album or Book is figuring out which of the many, many options we now offer I want to try. (And I hope you're having similar problems, but are ordering one of each to sort it out!).

Just Announced at WPPI

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:14:00 GMT

It's an exciting first day in Las Vegas at WPPI in the Miller's booth with the announcement of our latest additions to the Miller's line. All will be available with the next release of Miller's Remote Studio in April. They include:

Eighteen new cover options for our Flush Mount Albums. Choose from a variety of colors, as well as Etched Aluminum, Brushed Copper, and Brushed Aluminum.
LayFlat Albums and LayFlat Press Books. Order at a discounted price when added to your Assembled Album order, or order them separately at full price. Select from fourteen cover choices and four different square sizes (5 x 5, 8 x 8, 10 x 10, and 12 x 12).
Twenty new cover options for our existing Hard Cover Press Book line. We're offering a number of new colors in both leather and cloth, as well as Printed Canvas, Printed Glossy, and Printed Metallic.
Boutique Packaging. Select this option and we'll wrap your order in our special upscale packaging.
Accordion Wallet Books. Available through Miller's Press, our Accordion Wallet Books will come in two sizes -- 3" square and wallet sized.

These are just a few of the many new products we'll be adding in April. If attending WPPI, be sure to stop by the booth to see samples. Stay tuned as we roll out more details in the very near future.

Julie Brown

Custom Wedding Album Design

Jason Becking — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:45:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce the addition of a Custom Album Design Service here at Miller's. This is a request we've heard frequently at conventions and the like, so we're excited about this new offering.

The design service will be available for all page sizes of the Assembled Albums we offer. All you have to do is send us your files on a CD/DVD (to Pittsburg) and tell us what Album, what size and what number of pages you need. It is that simple!

The service includes creating custom background pages, changing opacity, changing selected images to black & white or sepia, and album layout. Upon completion, we will send you a proof via e-mail or CD for your approval. You may request changes at no additional charge for the first two proofs sent. The service will be available for only $6 per page and should be available within the next few days. Of course, our normal retouching and digital art service are also available at their normal rates.