Album design for Pic-Time users, in four steps.
You are staying on Pic-Time for galleries, automations and sales. This page is the literal handoff guide for the album-design step in Cuppafolio: how to get selects out of Pic-Time, into Cuppafolio, to your album lab, without touching your sales automations.
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Keep the sales engine, sharpen the album
Pic-Time's strength is the part that makes money: galleries that convert, automations that follow up, and a store that sells prints and products. None of that is something you want to disturb to improve one step.
Cuppafolio is that one step done properly. It is purely an album designer, so it sits beside Pic-Time without overlapping it. Sell and deliver through Pic-Time as you do today, design the album in a focused editor, and export a print-ready PDF you own and print with any lab.
The difference is in what we deliberately leave out.
A narrow tool, an honest deal, and a file that is genuinely yours.
It does one job well
No gallery, no CRM, no store bolted on. A focused album designer that respects, rather than replaces, the tools you already pay for.
You own the export
Every album leaves as a print-ready PDF with no watermark and no per-album unlock fee. It is a real deliverable you keep, not a file held hostage.
Any lab, no markup
We do not print or fulfil anything. Your PDF goes to the album supplier you already trust, with no print margin quietly skimmed along the way.
Two tools, zero overlap
Because Cuppafolio does not do galleries, automations or sales, there is nothing to reconcile between it and Pic-Time. The boundary is clean: Pic-Time runs the client and the sale, Cuppafolio produces the designed album.
The deliverable is a standard print-ready PDF you own, so however you sell or fulfil the album through Pic-Time stays entirely your decision.
The handoff Pic-Time users worry about
The album step should be the fun part. Too often the tooling gets in the way.
Whether adding a second tool will break their existing Pic-Time sales automations (it does not)
Whether Cuppafolio needs API access or a Pic-Time integration (it does not)
Which Pic-Time export size to use for clean album-quality output
A focused tool that does the album job brilliantly.
Everything you need for the album, nothing you don't, and the finished file is always yours.
No integration to manage
Pic-Time and Cuppafolio never share data.
Cuppafolio does not connect to your Pic-Time account, your automations, your store or your client list. The handoff is a folder of selects you export from Pic-Time and drag into a Cuppafolio project. That is it.
Four-step handoff
Pic-Time → folder → Cuppafolio → lab.
1) Export final selects from Pic-Time as JPGs at the largest size your plan allows. 2) Drag the folder into a new Cuppafolio project. 3) Lay out the album from templates with smart snapping. 4) Export the 300 DPI sRGB PDF and send to your album lab.
Print-ready PDF
300 DPI. 3 mm bleed. Yours.
One click and a press-ready PDF lands in your downloads: 300 DPI, sRGB, embedded fonts, optional crop marks. No watermark, no expiry, no per-album unlock fee.
Flat pricing
One monthly price. No per-album fees.
From £19/month. Design as many albums as your plan allows for the same price every month, with no surprise charge when a busy season hits.
Where Cuppafolio sits next to Pic-Time
Cuppafolio is deliberately narrow. It does not deliver galleries, take payments or manage clients, so it never competes with Pic-Time. It picks up exactly one job: turning your final selects into a designed, print-ready album.
Keep Pic-Time for galleries, automations and selling. When the album is what is on your plate, open Cuppafolio, design it from designer templates with smart snapping, and export a PDF you own and send to any lab. Nothing about your existing setup has to change.
- Keep Pic-Time exactly as it is today
- Bring final selects into Cuppafolio for the album step
- Export a print-ready PDF and send it to your album lab
- No migration, no integration to configure, no lock-in
The Pic-Time → Cuppafolio handoff in detail
- Step 1 — Export selects from Pic-Time using its existing download tools at the largest size
- Step 2 — Drag the downloaded folder into a new Cuppafolio project; no upload UI to navigate
- Step 3 — Choose a designer template, place selects with smart snapping handling alignment
- Step 4 — Export the print-ready PDF (300 DPI sRGB, 3 mm bleed) and send to your album lab
- Pic-Time galleries, automations, store and sales pipeline stay exactly as they are
- Flat £19/month Solo (£39 Studio, £79 Agency) on top of your existing Pic-Time subscription
“I designed a 40-page wedding album in an afternoon, exported a PDF, and sent it straight to my usual lab. The whole thing felt lighter than any tool I'd used before.”
Good questions, straight answers.
Will this break my Pic-Time sales automations?
No, because Cuppafolio never touches Pic-Time. Your automations, store, galleries and client emails run exactly as they do today. Cuppafolio only sees the folder of selects you download from Pic-Time and drag into it — the rest of Pic-Time is invisible to us.
Does Cuppafolio need API access to Pic-Time?
No. There is no Pic-Time API key to issue, no shared credentials, no integration to configure. The handoff is local: Pic-Time exports a folder to your computer, you drag that folder into Cuppafolio. The two services never communicate.
Which Pic-Time export size should I use?
Use the largest available — typically the original-resolution download. Album-print resolution needs more pixels than gallery proofing, so the bigger the source, the cleaner the print. Cuppafolio handles the resizing and 300 DPI output at the album-export step.
Can I still sell printed albums through Pic-Time?
If you currently use Pic-Time's print store and want to keep that flow for some products, you can. Most photographers using this handoff are intentionally moving custom-quoted premium albums to their own chosen lab (the higher-margin product), while the Pic-Time store continues handling other print sales.
How long does the four-step handoff actually take?
Step 1 is whatever your Pic-Time download takes (a few minutes per session). Step 2 is a drag-and-drop. Step 3 is the album design itself — typically one focused sitting per album. Step 4 is one click. Most photographers doing the handoff for the first time finish a real album within the 3-day free trial.
Can I still sell the album through Pic-Time?
Yes. Cuppafolio produces the designed, print-ready album as a PDF you own. Selling or fulfilling it through Pic-Time, or anywhere else, stays entirely your call.
Will the two tools conflict?
No. Cuppafolio does not do galleries, proofing or sales, only album design, so the two never overlap.
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