We're heading out to New York next week to attend the PhotoPlus Expo (www.photoplusexpo.com).  We've also been invited to show and talk about our books on the evening of the 24th at the Apple store on Fifth Avenue!

Check out this amazing store:

If you're going to be in New York next week, make sure you come by and say hello.   We're going to be at the store from 7:00 to 9:00PM, and will then be at the PhotoPlus trade show the rest of the week. 

If you can't make it to the Apple store, but still want to check out the books in person, please give us a buzz at support@couturebook.com and we'll be happy to setup a meeting time.

Can't wait to see everyone in New York!!

Several of our book styles have printed covers, covers that either have an image on the front, or wrap around the entire cover of the book.  With these different styles, especially the ones that wrap around the spine of the book, you'll need a template to properly layout your cover designs.  

We've created the cover templates for all of our printed cover books, in all of the sizes and page counts.  Just download the appropriate zip file for the book style you are working on, and the cover you need should be there.

New York SoHo: SoHo Covers
New York East Hamptons: East Hamptons Covers

German Munich: Munich Covers
German Berlin: Berlin Covers

When you are designing the cover, please keep in mind that the spine widths can change slightly with different paper types and page counts.   Also, on the templates, the edge area that is marked off is the edge wrap.  This is the area that is wrapped around the side/edges of the cover, so you'll want your image to go all the way to the edge of the template. 

After you design the layout in Photoshop, flatten it and save it as a Jpeg.   Then just upload the finished Jpeg as your cover image for that project. 

Please let us know if you have any questions.

-Team Couture

I'm not sure if you made it to the Photokina (http://www.photokina-cologne.com/) this year in Germany, but if you had, you would been able to see our European kick-off.

Since my Spanish is very rusty and I don't speak German, nor French, nor the myriad of other languages spoken in Europe, we've teamed up with Keepsakes in Germany (www.keepsakes.de) to be able to bring better support and faster service to our European customers.

Check out the cool booth Keepsakes put together to show off the books:

Speaking of photography shows, we're also planning on being at the PhotoPlus Expo in New York in a couple weeks (23rd - 25th of October).  We won't have a booth at the tradeshow, but if you're going to be in town and want to check out the books, give me a buzz to setup a meeting time: support@couturebook.com or 877.472.1710

Hope to see you there!!

I can't believe how fast this year has gone by, and already the holiday deadlines are nearing!

Here's our deadlines for holiday ordering:
-November 14th for the Spanish Madrid, all of the Italian books, and all of the Swiss books
-November 21 for everything else

If you have your order in by that day, we will guarantee that your book will arrive in time for Christmas.  If not, we'll still try our best, but we won't be able to guarantee it'll arrive in time.  

Let us know if you have any questions, and Happy Holidays!!

Over the last month and a half, we have been on the Free to Succeed Tour with David Jay and Adobe:  htttp://www.freetosucceedtour.com.   It was a fun tour, and was so nice to get to visit with so many great folks from all over.  

We kicked off the tour with the introduction of several new book collections, including the new Earth collection, the worlds first 100% recycled fine art book.  We were also happy to announce our new Adobe LightRoom plug-in.  Check out the posts below for more info on the Plug-in and to see more info on all of our collections, feel free to download our new catalog: http://www.couturebook.com/pdfs/CoutureBookCollections.pdf

I just wanted to thank everyone that came out and saw us on tour!  Everyone was so friendly and made all of us feel at home in every city.   If you did miss the tour, you can bring DJ into your home via DVD: http://freetosucceedtour.com/#/dvd/

We'll also be popping up at several local photographer meetings and PhotoPlus expo later this month.  Hope to see you soon, and keep you eyes on the blog for more info!!