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How To Make Your Own Album Templates in 10 Seconds (Or Less)

Yep. It’s seriously that easy to make your own album templates in InDesign. Just a few seconds, a couple clicks, and you’re laughing!

You’ll save yourself hundreds of dollars (yikes!) over buying pre-made ones, and get to let your own creativity guide your designs. Plus, using templates speeds up your workflow like mad. 

So check out this video for all the details on how to make your own album templates in seconds:

A few tips and such for ya!

Shortcuts:

  • Select the photo inside the frame: A (Direct Selection Tool)
  • Select the frame: V (Selection Tool)
  • Select all frames on spread: Command - A (Mac) or Control - A (PC)
  • Duplicate frame: Option (Mac) or Alt (PC) + Click and drag

Free Templates:

We created a library of 20 awesome templates for you to get started with! Totally absolutely free. Go grab them here!

Note: They only work with InDesign CS5.

And then get going on making your own album templates! It’s that whole “teach a photographer to fish” idea! When you learn to make your own templates, you’ll be able to grow and adapt to new styles and sizes, without having to shell out the big bucks each and every time! Plus, it’s fun!!

Tutorial:

If you want to learn more about using InDesign to become an album ninja, check out our tutorial — Awesome Album Design Skills. It teaches you everything you need to know to design, price and sell albums, in only 5 hours!! Yay!

By Lauren Lim

About the Author:  Hey friend, I’m Lauren! I’m a professional photographer and head ninja here at Photography Concentrate. I’m downright obsessed with photography, and love sharing it with super cool folks like yourself. When I’m not shooting, or writing, you can find me cooking (and eating!), traveling, and hanging out with wonderful people. 

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Discussion
9 comments so far

Heather Espana September 12, 2011 (2:11 p.m.)

Woohoo! Thank you so much for this. I’m new to ID this season, and while I’ve been creating my own templates, I haven’t known where to store them ;). That “New Library” tip alone is priceless.

Deb Beaulieu September 13, 2011 (8:45 a.m.)

Wow! Thank you for this awesome nugget of information! I have used InDesign for at least 6 years now and this is something totally new to me but will save SOOOOOO much time!:) It really make InDesign that much more powerful to photographers!

John September 15, 2011 (1:38 a.m.)

Wow! I had NO idea InDesign was so easy to make albums with! I’ve kind of been intimidated by the program, and hear that it’s THE standard for album design, but seeing it done like this is really enlightening! Thank You!! Easy Templates!

Rob
Rob September 15, 2011 (11:06 a.m.)

Thanks for commenting guys! Glad to hear the tip was helpful :) InDesign really is an incredible program for photographers.

Tina September 29, 2011 (11:10 a.m.)

This video is awesome, thank you so much for making it!! Would you mind sharing the keystrokes you use to get the photos into InDesign like that? Your site is so helpful!

Jill October 10, 2011 (5:04 p.m.)

Love it! Thank you for sharing! I hadn’t yet discovered that function in InDesign, and I’m totally going to use it. :)

Daniel November 28, 2011 (1:43 a.m.)

THANKS ¡ I was looking for this kind of tutorial ¡ Really easy to speed up our workflow

Kim March 2, 2012 (8:59 a.m.)

Thanks Lauren!!

Nicolas Metallo March 23, 2012 (9:53 a.m.)

We are releasing a plugin for indesign that will make this even easier. It’s going to be really amazing.

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