Tweet tweet... Queensberry and Photojunction are officially on Twitter. Queensberry: @queensberrynz Photojunction: @photojunction If you're a social media maven we're there to learn, join the conversation and connect with you. We'll be tweeting and re-tweeting all sorts of things – not just our own posts and observations but anything we come across you could be interested in - like this re-tweet from a few days ago: @queensberrynz Hard-hitting article from Gary Fong - what's wrong with wedding photography today - Ian. http://ow.ly/1Hyue Plus, if you're looking for a few more (interesting) people To View More >>

You’ve heard the saying about fitting square pegs in round holes? It can be very apt when it comes to choosing images for our Photo Front covers, especially the 1/4 Photo Front, as this screen shot from PJ Remix indicates – only a slice from the image will fit on the cover. Although I’ve used Photojunction to illustrate the problem, it solves the problem as well. In Photojunction simply drag the image you want to use on to the cover layout, as in the screen shot. If it won’t fit the space you’ll soon know: you'll need to choose a different cover style or find an image with a suitable To View More >>

                  How do you know what size and shape to make an album cover image? How do you account for the aspect ratio and cover wrap-around (the part of the image you can't see)? If it sounds hard, it's not. Just design the cover in PJ Remix. It's exactly like designing pages only easier. You can see the aspect ratio and the wrap-around. And problems rarely occur because it's so obvious when images don't fit. We've already blogged about album covers, especially here and here, so we won't repeat ourselves. If you're not sure how to send us the image there's a link about that too. To View More >>

Why not design your albums in Photoshop or InDesign? A lot of people do, and they're great applications – we depend on them both ourselves. A few thoughts … Adobe don't think designing your albums in Photoshop is a good idea. That's not what it's for. Adobe's page layout software is InDesign. So how much does InDesign know about wedding and portrait photographers, their workflow, their albums and their suppliers? InDesign doesn't know what DPI your lab needs, or what file type, or what size the printed layouts should be, or about bleed and trim requirements, or what colour management processes To View More >>

The purpose of our recent survey was to get a better picture of how you're using the software, and the features most important to you. It turns out you use Photojunction to design albums for almost a hundred album suppliers that we don't even offer resources for - no wonder a third of you "always" use Remix DIY! It's also clear that unless you're one of Queensberry's clients you're most likely using PJ primarily to design and export page layouts. That's not so surprising. Getting past "page design" requires a lot of input from vendors, and unfortunately they're much less engaged with PJ than their To View More >>

Hi All, we need a favour. Our newest recruit, Angelique, is taking some time off to have a baby. (Congrats again to Angelique and Pete.) But while Angelique is off on leave we'll need a temporary replacement to help with Photojunction support - answering emails, phone calls, tweets, and Facebook posts (with a dash of blogging). You can work from home (as New Zealand can be a killer commute) and use your own computer. Other than that we'll sort you out with software and a phone to get the job done. Here are a few details: - Monday - Friday, 9am - 3pm EST (If you can't figure out how those hours To View More >>

We know the feeling – you know there must be a way to do something, but you just can't figure it out.    Here's an example: there's no standard "title" aperture in PJ Remix, so how do you add a title? There are actually two ways to do it. The easier way (but maybe also easier to get wrong) is simply this: Add a blank aperture to the layout using the Add button (left image, above) Change the aperture to Customise (right image, above) Uncheck the Constrain Proportions box and enter the values directly. Easy as long as you remember the values: 112 wide by 200 high , as above. Whether you use To View More >>

Just in case you need us during the holiday period, we have staff working through the break to ensure Photojunction support is available. We are however going to take a couple of annual public holidays off (NZDT): - 25 December (Christmas day) - 26 December (Boxing day) - 1 January (New Years day) - 2 January Here's a recap of our support hours.... New Zealand: 8am – 4.30pm (Mon-Fri) and 1am – 7am (Tues-Sat) Australia: 6am – 2.30pm (Mon-Fri) and 11pm – 5am (Tues-Sat) UK: 2pm – 8pm and 9pm (Mon-Fri) - 5.30am (Sun-Thurs) US (East Coast): 9am – 3pm (Mon-Fri) and 4pm – 12.30am (Sun-Thurs) To View More >>

With the recent launch of the Queensberry Press and a new final version of Photojunction (1.45), we've got lots to talk about. To start, this Thursday @ 9am (NZDT) we're running a "how-to" Intro to Photojunction webinar to introduce the new final version 1.45 - we'll demo using a new Queensberry Press Book. Here are Thursday's times: AUSTRALIA (East coast) -  Thurs 7:00 AM NEW ZEALAND - Thurs 9:00 AM UK - Wed 8:00 PM USA (West Coast) -  Wed 1:00 PM USA (East Coast) - Wed 4:00 PM Or click here to see what time it'll be in your part of the world: http://ow.ly/32Vdj Please click the link to register To View More >>

It's been a little while since we last updated our popular Intro to Photojunction webinar recording on our Vimeo channel. It's had thousands of views, but with so many new changes to the software since it went up earlier this year, a newer version was due. So we recorded last week's session and it's now available to view online, anytime... Watch it full screen (and in HD) here. Remember, if you'd like to join one of our live weekly webinars, check out our webinar schedule for details. We'd love you to join us. Cheers, Nigel To View More >>