Pixerbook Album Studio
Forty spreads before lunch.
Album design is the least creative creative work in a studio: the same layouts, the same crops, the same export settings, once per event, forever. Album Studio does the repetitive nine tenths and leaves you the tenth that matters.
What it does
Design albums in minutes.
The layout tool your designer actually wants. Auto-fill spreads from the client selection, adjust what you disagree with, and export press-ready in one pass.
01
It starts from the selection, not from an empty page
Pull the approved list straight out of Photo Picks in the Pixerbook Platform and the first draft lays itself out — chronological, grouped, with the portraits and the wide frames in sensible places. You begin by disagreeing with a finished album rather than by dragging the first photograph onto a blank spread.
- Auto-layout from an approved Photo Picks selection
- Or from a folder, if you select outside Pixerbook
- Chronological and event-group ordering
- Frame-aware placement for portrait and panoramic shots
02
Templates, because you already have a house style
Every studio has twenty layouts it actually uses. Save them once, with your margins and your gutter, and apply them by keystroke. The album stops being designed from scratch and starts being assembled.
- Save any spread as a reusable template
- Keyboard-driven apply and cycle
- Per-album margin, gutter and bleed defaults
- Template sets per product — 12×18, square, mini
03
Native, because RAW files are heavy
This is the reason it is a desktop app and not a browser tab. It reads directly from your disk with no upload step, uses the whole machine for rendering, and a 40-spread album with 300 full-resolution images stays responsive. Nothing to lose when a tab closes.
- Direct disk access — no upload, no sync wait
- Multi-core rendering and GPU-accelerated preview
- Works offline, on location, with no connection
- Your files stay on your machine unless you send them
04
Export once, correctly
Press-ready means the thing your printer asks for: correct bleed, correct margins, embedded profile, the right colour space, in one pass. The export preset is saved per printer, so the second album goes out without the phone call.
- Press-ready PDF and per-spread TIFF or JPEG
- Bleed and safe-margin guides matched to the printer
- ICC profile embedded, CMYK or RGB as required
- Saved presets per printer and per album product
Desktop app
Native on Mac and Windows.
One licence, both platforms, and project files that open on either — so a designer on a Mac and one on Windows can hand work back and forth with nothing to convert. It is a desktop application because it moves gigabytes of full-resolution files around, and a browser tab is the wrong place to do that.
Downloads are sent with your trial — we would rather hand you the right build than have you guess at an installer.
Requirements
- macOS 12 Monterey or later — Apple Silicon and Intel
- Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11
- 8 GB RAM minimum, 16 GB recommended for 40-spread albums
- 2 GB free disk space, plus room for your working files
Pricing
Album Studio, on its own.
One subscription for this product only. Nothing here is a bundle, and you are never charged for a product you have not asked for.
One installed seat. The normal choice for a studio.
1 machine, transferable
- Mac and Windows, both included
- Unlimited albums and spreads
- Auto-layout, templates and press export
- Pulls selections from the Pixerbook Platform
- Move the seat to a new machine any time
For studios with more than one person laying out albums.
3 seats minimum
- Everything in Designer, at a lower per-seat rate
- Shared template library across the team
- Central licence management
- Priority support with a named contact
Prices exclude GST/VAT, applied per your billing address. Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time. Ask about multi-branch studios.
Questions
Before you ask.
Is it one app for both Mac and Windows?
It is two native builds and one licence. Your seat works on either, and the project files are identical across both — a designer on a Mac and one on a Windows machine can pass an album back and forth with nothing to convert.
Why a subscription for a desktop app?
A fair question. The subscription covers both platform builds, the printer presets we maintain, and the connection to the Pixerbook Platform. If you would rather own a version outright, say so when you get in touch — it is not offered today, but it is a reasonable thing to want and we would like to know how many people want it.
Does it need an internet connection?
Only to check the licence periodically and to pull selections from the Pixerbook Platform. Layout and export work fully offline, which matters if you design on location or on a plane.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes — 14 days, the full application, no card. Export is watermarked during the trial so you can test the whole workflow including the printer handoff without us having to trust anybody.
Works with
Separate subscriptions.
One client record.
Album Studio is complete on its own. If you do add another product, they share the same client and event — so nothing is ever typed twice. You still buy them separately, and you can stop one without touching the other.
Request a demo
See it on your
own work.
Thirty minutes over Zoom, Meet or Teams — your choice. Send us one past event beforehand and we will set the demo up with your own photographs instead of a sample dataset.