If you’ve never used older versions of Fundy-heck, if you’ve never used any album building software before-it won’t take you very long at all to get up to speed with Designer v7. Outside of three Fundy-specific image tags, you can also add keywords and stars to images in Fundy and have that data travel back with the images into Lightroom or Photo Mechanic. Fundy Designer can now read star tags and keywords from programs like Lightroom or Photo Mechanic.
There’s now a full-blown image browser where you can organize images, add tags and stars and sort through your imported images. Image browsing and organizing within the program have also been upgraded.
Access to albums, wall gallery designs and blog collages are all available now in the main interface. Images and tools once arrayed along the left rail are now laid out on the bottom or top of the program, freeing up space to view your album pages more organically. The pale gray background has been replaced by a pale, clean white. The user interface (UI) has been redesigned. While it’s faithful to this mission, Version 7 represents a substantial update. There are plenty of changes in v7, so it makes sense to reaffirm what hasn’t change: Fundy Designer is still centered on template-free album building. Version 7 was announced at WPPI and we’ve had a chance to put the program through its paces since.įundy Designer is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems for $299 for new users and for $199 for anyone upgrading from an older version of the software. It’s an album building tool that enables you to quickly assemble your own print album rather than pay a third party to do it for you. Few photographers need to be reminded of the old truism that “time is money.” Fundy Designer was built with this ethos in mind.