Wedding Album Spread Designer (12×36, 12×30, 14×40 sheets)
Album spreads from the client’s picks, exported with a pass as 300-DPI sheets and a proof.
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Add the client’s selected photos to lay out the album.
Click a photo to select it, drag it onto another to swap them. Keyboard: arrow keys choose a photo, Enter picks it up and Enter again swaps, Delete moves it back to the photos.
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Photos, sheets and album settings
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Ask your lab for its sheet size, bleed and safe area and enter them here: labs differ. The bleed is extra picture around the sheet that the lab trims off.
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Sheets are 8-bit sRGB JPEGs at the chosen resolution, made one at a time on this device. The proof is a small PDF with sheet numbers for the client to approve.
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About the Wedding Album Spread Designer (12×36, 12×30, 14×40 sheets)
Design the spreads of a wedding or event album from the photos your client selected. Choose the sheet size — 12 × 36, 12 × 30, 14 × 40, 12 × 24 inches or your own — and Auto-fill lays every photo out page by page, choosing from 1 to 8 photos per page so each photo fills a frame of a similar shape, with the large photo on the outer edge and a clear zone at the centre fold. Then drag photos to swap them, change any page’s layout, zoom and move a photo inside its frame, run one photo across both pages, set a plain or textured background and add text.
When the client is happy, export each sheet with a pass as a 300-DPI JPEG sized for your lab’s bleed and named in order, and send a small proof PDF with sheet numbers and an approval block. Photos are never uploaded or copied: the tool reads them from your device, keeps the layout in this browser and saves projects as small files.
How to use it
- Open Album settings: enter the album name, choose the sheet size, and enter your lab’s bleed and the margins you want. Labs differ, so ask yours for its sheet size, bleed and safe area.
- Select Add photos (or Add a folder on a computer) and choose the client’s selected photos. The first time, they are laid out automatically in name order; Auto-fill sheets lays them out again after you change the settings.
- Go through the sheets with ‹ and ›. Drag a photo onto another to swap them, or click it and use Zoom and Drag moves the photo in its frame to crop it. Change a page with the Left page / Right page layouts, or tick One photo across both pages.
- Photos that are not on any sheet are in the Photos panel: select a frame, then a photo to put it there. Add text to a sheet under Text on this sheet.
- With a pass, select Proof PDF for the client to send for approval, then Save all sheets to a folder (Chrome and Edge) or Download all sheets (ZIP) for the lab. Save project keeps a file you can open again later, with or without a pass: your own layout is never locked. Without a pass, the editor shows every sheet with a preview mark across it and Preview the proof shows the first pages of the proof.
Examples
Mixed portrait and landscape photos, “Mixed” photos per page, 3 mm bleed, 300 DPI
24 sheets of 1 to 4 photos per page, each exported as a 10,870 × 3,670 px JPEG (36 × 12 in plus 3 mm on every side) named sharma-wedding_12x36_sheet-01.jpg … sheet-24.jpg
Bleed 0 mm, file names: sheet number only
10,800 × 3,600 px JPEGs named 01.jpg, 02.jpg …
Proof PDF of 24 sheets
A 13-page A4 landscape PDF: 12 pages with two sheets each, “Sheet 1 of 24” and the file name above each sheet and the centre fold marked, then an approval block for the client’s name, signature and changes
Common uses
- Wedding, engagement and event photographers designing lay-flat and flush-mount albums for print labs.
- Studios that want the client to approve a proof before sending sheets to the lab.
- Anyone turning a set of favourite photos into a printed photo book with exact page sizes.
Sheet size, bleed and margins
- Sheet size is the whole spread, both pages side by side: a 12 × 36 sheet has two 12 × 18 in pages. Confirm with your lab, since some price and name sizes by the single page.
- Bleed is extra picture beyond the sheet on every side, which the lab trims off so no white edge shows. Enter the figure your lab gives (0 if it wants the exact size). Photos and backgrounds that reach the edge continue into the bleed.
- Outer margin keeps photos away from the trimmed edges, and Clear of the fold keeps them away from the centre of the spread, where the pages are bound. Space between photos sets the gaps.
- The preview shades the bleed, outlines the trimmed sheet in red, the area for photos in blue, and marks the fold with a dashed line.
Print resolution
Every sheet is drawn at the resolution you choose (300 DPI by default) from the original photo files, so a 12 × 36 sheet is 10,800 × 3,600 pixels before bleed. Each frame is checked: a photo that has fewer than 200 of its own pixels per printed inch — because it is small, cropped hard or zoomed in — is marked with its pixels per inch on the sheet in the editor (never in the exported file), since such prints may look soft. Use a larger original, a smaller frame or less zoom for those.
Colours and files
Sheets are JPEG files at high quality with the resolution (DPI) written into the file. They are drawn in sRGB, the colour space browsers work in, and carry no embedded colour profile; image software and labs normally treat such files as sRGB, but ask your lab if it needs a particular profile. Photos in other colour spaces (such as Adobe RGB) are normally converted to sRGB by the browser when they are drawn.
Keeping your work
The layout, settings and the list of photos are saved in this browser as you work, and come back the next time you open the page — add the same photos (or their folder) again and they are matched by file name. For safety, or to move to another computer, use Save project: it saves a small file with the layout (not the photos), which Open project reads back. Background textures are matched by name too.
Limitations
- Large sheets need memory: a 14 × 40 sheet at 300 DPI is about 50 megapixels. A computer is recommended for exporting; phones may run out of memory on the largest sizes — choose 240 DPI there or export one sheet at a time.
- Saving straight into a folder needs Chrome or Edge on a computer; other browsers download a ZIP or single sheets.
- HEIC photos open only in browsers that read HEIC (Safari); convert them to JPEG first in other browsers. RAW files are not read.
- One line of text per sheet. There are no photo adjustments (colour, retouching), shapes or masks.
- Up to 2,000 photos per album. The layout is saved in this browser, but the photos themselves are not: keep the folder of selected photos with the project file.
Privacy
Everything happens in your browser. What you enter or open here is not uploaded or stored by MySmartCoPilot.
Frequently asked questions
What do I get without a pass?
Without a pass, Wedding Album Spread Designer (12×36, 12×30, 14×40 sheets) shows every sheet in the editor and the first pages of the client proof, with a MySmartCoPilot watermark across them. Until you unlock it, the result can’t be downloaded or saved to your device. A Pro or Premium pass, a one-time payment that never renews, unlocks the full result. The pricing page lists the passes and their prices.
Which size is a “12 × 36” album?
In album printing these names usually describe the spread, both pages side by side: a 12 × 36 sheet is 12 inches high and 36 inches wide, two 12 × 18 inch pages. 12 × 30 is then two 12 × 15 pages, 14 × 40 two 14 × 20 pages and 12 × 24 two 12 × 12 pages. Labs and template sellers differ, so check what your lab means by its sizes and use Custom size when they differ.
What bleed should I use?
The one your lab asks for — labs differ, and some want the files at exactly the sheet size (bleed 0). Check the export size shown above the export buttons against your lab’s instructions before exporting.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The photos are read from your device by your browser; the sheets, the proof and the project file are made on your device. Nothing is uploaded and no copies of the photos are kept in the browser.
Can I come back to an album later?
Yes. The layout is kept in this browser and restored when you return; add the same photos again to see them. Save project gives you a file to keep with the photos or to open on another computer.
What does the red “ppi” badge on a photo mean?
That photo has fewer than 200 of its own pixels for each printed inch in its frame — the original is small, cropped hard or zoomed in — so it may print soft. Use a larger original, a smaller frame or less zoom. The badge is shown only in the editor; it is never drawn on the exported sheets or the proof.
How does auto-fill choose layouts?
Page by page it takes the next photos in order (by file name) and picks, among the layouts with that many photos, the one whose frames match the photos’ shapes best, so portrait photos go into tall frames and landscape photos into wide ones. It varies the layout from page to page and puts large photos on the outer edges. It is a starting point: swap, crop and change layouts as you like.