Getting Started
Most photographers go from creating an account to holding their first sample album in about two weeks. Here is exactly what that looks like, with the tools and the people behind every step so you never feel like you are figuring it out alone.
Built with you in mind, made by hand.
Four steps to your first order
The same path every RedTree studio takes, whether you are sending your first sample album or your hundredth client order.
Sign in to your account dashboard and open the pricing guide to see wholesale pricing on every product line. Albums, books, folios, and presentation boxes. Then run a few collection scenarios through the pricing calculator to land on retail numbers that actually pay you to deliver.
Send your favorites to our Album Design Service and we deliver a SmartAlbums Cloud proof within one business day. Prefer to design it yourself? Most studios finish a spread in thirty minutes or less using Pixellu SmartAlbums, Fundy Designer, or AlbumStomp. Blank Photoshop and InDesign templates live inside your dashboard.
Choose from Italian leathers, European linens, Japanese silks, vegan suede, fabric, and photo wrap. Add blind or foil debossing in one of our house fonts or your studio logo. On Flushmount Albums, you can drop a photo cameo into the cover itself.
Upload your design files on the shop page for the product you are ordering. Walk the proof one last time, confirm cover details, and check out. Initial production turnaround starts the next business day after approval.
Why sell albums
An album is the single product your clients will actually hand to their grandchildren. It is also the most reliable way to add real revenue to every booking.
The photographers who thrive are the ones who offer tangible products their clients can hold, display, and share. Albums create an emotional connection that digital files never will, and they add thousands in revenue to every booking.
RedTree gives you the products, the tools, and the support to make selling albums a natural part of your workflow. Whether you are just starting with print sales or scaling an existing IPS business, we meet you where you are.
In additional annual revenue reported by photographers who sell RedTree albums with every collection
Album design turnaround when you use our design service. Send your images and we handle the rest
Product types to offer your clients, from layflat albums and fine art prints to folios, books, and presentation boxes
Once a client holds a finished album, the conversation changes. Most studios design a single sample to show in consults and quietly book album upgrades on every wedding after that. We build yours to your studio brand so the moment they open it, the work is already half done.
Tools to help you sell
Everything that lives inside your dashboard the moment your account is created. Use the ones you need, skip the rest, come back when the next problem shows up.
Justin DeMutiis, Brittany Elise, and Brad and Jen walk you through how they price, present, and close album sales inside their own studios.
A practical guide on packaging albums into your collections so the upsell happens before the wedding rather than after it.
Drop in your wholesale cost, your markup, and your target studio profit. The calculator builds the retail number you should be charging.
Order a Standard Swatch Kit of every current material, or build a Custom Swatch Kit wrapped in fabric and debossed for your studio.
Create your free account, walk through the four steps, and we will be on the phone with you the moment you need a hand. The print side of your studio starts the day you decide it does.
From the very beginning, photographs were printed and memories were stored in boxes, books, and albums. Photographs were held by hand. Together, we carry on that tradition, one studio at a time.
Your studio, on the print side.