Your First Album
Create your first photo album and design your first spread in under five minutes
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From Zero to "Wow" in Five Minutes
You've got your account. Now let's make something gorgeous.
Start the album wizard
From your dashboard, click New Album. The wizard walks you through three quick steps:
- Basic Info. Name your album and set the event date.
- Specifications. Choose your album size. Pick from a lab's product catalog, or enter custom dimensions if your lab isn't listed yet.
- Review. Double-check everything and hit Create.
Upload your photos
After creating the album, you land on the upload page. Drag and drop files or click Upload to browse. Throw in hundreds at once. Spreadu handles large batches with parallel uploads and duplicate detection.
Supported formats: JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC.
For best print quality, use photos at 300 DPI or higher.
Organize into scenes
Group your photos into scenes. Ceremony, portraits, reception, details. Whatever makes sense for the shoot. Scenes make it easy to find the right photos when you're building spreads.
Design your first spread
Open the editor and drag photos from the sidebar onto a spread. The smart layout engine arranges them automatically based on their aspect ratios and visual weight.
Want a different arrangement? Drag photos to reposition them, resize zones, or zoom and pan within individual photos.
Keep going
Navigate between spreads using the strip at the bottom. Drop more photos, try different layouts, and build out your album spread by spread.
The layout engine respects your photos. No cropping unless you choose to. Your frame, your composition.
Tips for Your First Album
- Start with your hero shots. Drop 2-3 of your best photos on the first spread. The engine will give them the space they deserve.
- Use scenes. Grouping photos by moment (ceremony, reception, portraits) makes it much faster to find what you need when building spreads.
- Don't overthink it. The first draft from the layout engine is usually 80% there. Fine-tune the last 20% and move on.