Album Moxie: The Savvy Photographer’s Guide to Album Design and more—with InDesign

7. Building a Full Layout

Yessss! Design is the super-fun part, right?

This chapter will walk you through the real process of building an album. Because album design is about using great images to tell a story—and not about showing off with outrageous and overly complicated layouts—we’ll be building a very clean and simple layout. We’ll be keeping the workflow real, too. That means we’ll create a few things, then change them to suit a different purpose—as is often the case in real life.

Although the chapter won’t cover every nuance of InDesign (that would be a really, really thick book), we will go over everything you need to build a great album, ...