u/album3d

The Giant Mountains (Karkonosze) in Poland. January 2025.

January 2025, Poland.

Hi everyone — I recently released Album3D Demo, a desktop app available on Steam. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Steam is a widely used platform for downloading PC apps and games.

Album3D Demo is a demo version of a tool I’m developing for turning photo collections into interactive 3D album-style presentations.

I’m curious whether the full version could be useful in the wedding photography space, either for couples who want a more immersive way to revisit their wedding photos, or for photographers who may want to offer something different alongside digital galleries, slideshows, and printed albums.

The idea is to create an Album3D project from wedding photos, where the images are arranged inside a 3D environment rather than viewed only as a standard gallery or linear slideshow. Creating an Album3D project is designed to be as simple as importing your photos. You can optionally rearrange images later or edit descriptions if that adds value, but it isn’t required — the project can work right after import.

Over time, I also plan to release additional Album3D apps with wedding-themed 3D scenes, environments, and presentation styles.

It could potentially work as:

• a personal keepsake for couples
• an additional client deliverable
• a presentation for family and friends
• a more immersive alternative to a traditional slideshow
• a way to give wedding photo collections a different kind of emotional experience

I’d really appreciate feedback from people who work with wedding clients:

• Do you think couples would be interested in something like this?
• Could this fit naturally into a wedding photography package?
• Would you be interested in creating Album3D projects for personal use or for clients?
• What wedding-themed scenes, layouts, or presentation styles would make this feel valuable?
• What would make this genuinely useful rather than just a novelty?

Thanks — I’d love to hear your thoughts from a wedding photography perspective.

It's going to be called "PlanetMars3D: Spirit Mission". Its store is open on Steam now. It uses the same technology and UI as my Album3D app.

In 2004 I was very interested in Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Therefore, I decided to create an app that displays thousands of photos from this mission. During this mission two rovers landed on Mars: Spirit and Opportunity. The first app will be related to the Spirit rover.

In a regular way it would be hard to view that big amount of photos in an efficient way, but using this Album3D-like app, it is much easier.

In this video images are loaded from an SDXC card, so it's visibly slower than from e.g. SSD drive, but good enough.

Any feedback on the app or video appreciated.