What is TDA Software? 

TDA is your 'Camera to Cover'  studio software that combines extensive workflow & production capabilities with the most dynamic album designing  facilities of any program available on the market. It is provided free of charge to active Albums Australia customers!

TDA can streamline your studio's...

  • Workflow Systems

  • Image Management

  • Album Designing

  • Sales presentations

  • Image Preparations

  • Album Ordering

  • Album Assembly

  • Lab Ordering

  • Album Pricing

These facilities have been proven to help our clients...

  • Dramatically increase sales

  • Book more weddings

  • Save time and labour managing your digital image files

  • Save time and labour when producing lab orders

  • Save time and labour when assembling albums

  • Save money on album purchases

  • Order our albums "error free".

 

Design With Thousands of Images at the Same Time
TDA works in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop™ to provide extensive image editing and high resolution facilities.

It is a cross platform program that works by automatically creating low resolution ‘thumbnail’ images from your hi res original image files.

It then records all of the editing and designing changes you make to the thumbnails during your design of a wedding album. These changes are then automatically applied to a copy of the original high resolution images, providing you digital files that are ready to go to the lab for printing. You do not need to know how to use Photoshop, you only need to have a registered version on your computer.

Dynamic Designing Facilities

The term ‘dynamic’ within TDA4 is used to describe the concept of unrestricted design-ability. The freedom from previous restraints on your creativity. Because our industry has gone almost entirely digital, prints and images are no longer restrained to specific sizes. i.e. – mat apertures (and the photographs behind them) can be made to any size and format that best suits your image’s composition. You are no longer restricted to standard 5x7”, 8x10” sizes like in the old negative days. Many of the designing tools within TDA allow you to quickly create image presentations that are not restricted.

Dynamic Album Sizes

In our Magazine Album range, you can even design an album to any size and format you desire. TDA will create a canvas to the exact proportions and output the page files to the exact size you specified. Albums Australia will then build the book for you. Some cover materials are not available for this service.

  

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Cover  Designer
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Streamline Your Studio

  • Minimise your time spent with Album Planning by pre-designing albums in TDA. No more long album planning sessions.

  • Created to be used with or without digital images, TDA produces accurate assembly reports of each album design that makes it easy when ordering your prints.

  • These same reports work as "sign off" sheets where clients can view each page design and sign to confirm their order.

  • TDA automatically confirms receipt of orders received at Albums Australia.

  • TDA can produce high resolution output files from all images designed in the album plan.

 

 

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High Resolution Production Facilities

TDA has the added features of "post production" high resolution output. In simple terms, TDA will automatically create and import low resolution proxy images from your high resolution digital originals allowing you to design albums with hundreds of images. You then use these proxy images to design and customise every part of our albums.

Once an image has been used anywhere within an album design, all changes made to them are recorded an then applied to a copy of the original high resolution files and exported as finished high resolution images that are ready for lab preparation and printing.

Part of the designing options include creating professional digital composites from 100+ (fully editable) digital templates. You can also "freestyle" digital composites and create them from scratch within TDA.


 

Saves You Money

  • Design custom mats using our 'Add On' aperture designs from within TDA and save on cutting fees!

  • Eliminate the need and the expense of proofing.

  • Recover lost sales due to proof copying by eliminating the need for proofs

 


Order Your Albums "Error Free"

  • Create "mistake-proof" blueprints for both the album assembly and the lab print orders that any staff member can easily follow.

    • Simplifies ordering

    • Minimises errors in ordering

    • Internet ordering direct from software

    • Never have to size or re-size an image that is used anywhere within the album plan

  • No more filling out forms, looking up codes and drawing mat designs.

       

Photoshop™‘Action’ Applicator
Apply Photoshop™ actions to your images - TDA creates copies of your originals before applying changes to high and low res image versions. 

300+ Free Composite Templates
Dynamically changeable to suit your images. 

Comprehensive Library Facility
Create, save and organize all of your mat designs, mat aperture sizes and digital composite templates

Component File Output Facility
Stream line your digital workflow by editing the individual image components before assembling collages. Tiling images in page designs makes for quick album assembly. 

Album Cost and Sell Price Generator
Assign a cost and sell value to every part of an album design, including your images for an instant report of how much the album will cost you and how much to sell it for. 

Professional Audio Visual Presentations
Create and output ‘secure’ A / V’s of your images and album designs, customized with your studio logos and graphics