So this is long overdue but we’ve been asked many a times what we use for our album design as well as for our workflow. The secret (well, not much longer!
) is DQ Quikeys. With this valuable tool we are able to process our files in an efficient manner with just a keystroke or two. I’m especially in love with the album design capabilities. Since we love to design all our albums free hand (no templates), I can not express enough how amazingly easy, intuitive and FAST it is to design a page spread using DQ Quikeys. Be sure to check out all the details at www.dqquikeys.com!
A before and after of one of the actions using DQ Quikeys:
before OOC (out of camera)

after using DQ Hard Edge with opacity taken down a bit

Before (OOC) and After using a combination of Soft Color, DQ Cream and DQ Overlay. Finished off with Auto Vignette and some dodging and burning
Here are some sample album pages with some details from 2 weddings. With Quikeys, image placement, resizing and alignment is simple pimple! seriously….if you don’t have DQ Quikeyes already, you need to get it!!!

