What is the difference between a traditional and digital album?
Traditional albums are essentially designed with a “pictures per page” concept, meaning that each page holds a certain number of pictures. Those pictures are mounted behind mats, and the mats are mounted into slip pages. The slip pages are then mounted into an album cover. The advantage to these types of albums is that they are well-built and available in a wide variety of colors, styles and finishes. A digital album, on the other hand, is designed on the computer. The images are laid out onto a single sheet of photographic paper, and then mounted onto a hard-backed page insert in the album. The album is then bound. The advantage of digital albums is the layout is freeform and there are no mat restrictions, giving the creativity of layouts an open door.
