Wedding Albums, Flush Mount Or Matted?
If you are currently looking for a wedding album you may be getting a bit confused about what’s available. You’ll hear albums called by many names but there are really just two main choices, flush mount or matted.You may have heard flush mount wedding albums referred to as ‘storybook’, ‘magazine type’, ‘digital’ or ‘coffee table’ albums. These are all basically the same thing, an image, or a layout of several images, printed on to a page and bound into an album; the image goes right to the edge of the page with no border. Flush mounts are very versatile, imagine some of the ways that a glossy magazine page can be laid out and you’ll get the idea. Have a look at the websites for Graphi in Italy, Finao in the US or SIM200 in the UK to see some of the options, all of these manufacturers deliver worldwide.Albums are designed by your wedding photographer, designer or directly by the album manufacturer. Pages are laid out using design software and may use one or more images per page. There are endless possibilities for different designs: Panoramic photos can be laid out over two pages with no break at the spine, one image can be used as a background and another laid over the top, borders and effects can be applied to each image individually. If you are using a good designer and research studies press you should end up with a completely unique record of your day.
One of the big advantages of flush mounts is the ability to produce copies at reduced cost. Once your album is designed and stored as a digital file it can easily be reproduced at different sizes with different covers. This makes them ideal for parents’ copies and even miniature versions for friends and family.While the design process for all types of flush mounts is the same, there are variations in the way that albums are printed and bound. High quality albums are printed on photographic paper and mounted on board before binding them into an album. This makes the albums very robust and the photographic paper gives a fantastic range of colours and tones.Other albums (often called ‘books’ rather than ‘albums’) may be printed using a digital press system. This gives a quality similar to litho printing in a good quality photography book. The pages are thinner than photographic paper and are not mounted on board, so more prone to damage in the long term.Both types can give excellent results, though I would always recommend photographic paper for a main album.
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