[Mark McCall]

Kelly,
I used to worry about the creative process being taken out of the design too...but with YSI, every template is editable.
Every opening can be expanded, contracted, moved or deleted once the PSD has been exported.

I travel quite extensively, talk to a lot of photographers on the road. I hear the same thing over and over.....
"Every client is different, so I want every album to be different, so I design each one in PS individually".

This makes absolutely no business sense...unless your paying a college student $10 an hour or less to design that book in PS for you.
Nothing wrong with wanting to create an artisan look in your books, but I know very few affluent artists, but I know a quite a few affluent photographers who happen to be good business people.

Album design software does one thing...speed up the process, which makes you more money in the long run....AND it does it without every album looking the same.

That being said, my designer (using YSI), will use the same template for the first dance series of shots. She'll use the same template for the cake cutting.
Client A does not know what client B's album looks like....only YOU know that.