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This post is the first in a series of How to Make Your Own Digital Photo Book (the Photo Book Girl Way!) The series will give you a look at how I create the photo books that I use to write reviews for this site. You’ll get a look at my personal photo book workflow, my top photo book making tips and yes, learn from my mistakes. The goal is to help newbies get started and to share and exchange tips with more advanced photo book users.
Here’s a roadmap of the series. I’ll probably tweak it as we go along, but here’s the plan:
- Photo Book Tools: My Digital Camera Gear and My Computer Lineup
- How to Select and Edit Your Photos for your Photo Book
- How to Make Your Photos Look Better – Edit Your Photos with iPhoto
- Preparing to Make Your Photo Book – How To Edit Your Photos with Photoshop
- How to Find the Best Online Photo Book Printing Company
- What is the Right Resolution or DPI for Photos When Making a Photo Book?
- Top Tips for Making Great Photo Book Templates and Layouts (Photobook America Preview)
- Photo Book Layouts – A Design Tutorial – You Make the Call!
- How to Create a Two-Page Spread
- The Right Way to Add Text to Your Photo Book & How to Use Your Own Fonts
- Incorporating Non-Photo Elements Into Your Photo Book – A Bit of Digital Scrapbooking Fun
- Q&A: My Photos Aren’t Digital – How Do I Make a Photo Book? Scan Your Photos!
- Photo Book Paper Quality Compared – Which Photo Book Company Prints on the Best Paper?
As always, I welcome you to comment on my posts and feel free to share your tips as well!
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5 Comments
Have you ever tried Smilebooks out of German?
Hi Kathy, I attempted to but had a problem with the upload for some reason customer service and I were never able to resolve. Very odd. But I do plan to circle back to try them again. Please stay tuned!
I have you used Smilebooks, and have liked every booklet I received, I’m awaiting on two hardcovers and 3 booklets right now.
I had wondered why there wasn’t a photobookgirl review.
I like how you can change the size of photobox, move them around.
will try to tell more, after I receive my latest.
i need a photobook software that i can use to print my own book on my printer please help
Photoshop is a common choice for creating photo book layouts but it can be a pretty tedious process since it’s not like the drag and drop process you may have gotten used to when using the photo book company’s software. Professional design tools such as Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress which are meant for designing layouts, would make the process easier. In any event, creating a set of templates for yourself will help you save time, but it will require an initial investment of time to set up your library of layouts. Once you do that however you can reuse them for different projects and just tweak them when necessary. There are also companies like Creative Memories, Lumapix, and MyPhotoCreations that sell photo book making software that have a more user-friendly interface with drag and drop capability that makes designing go a bit faster. There may also be some digital scrapbooking software that you may like, but I haven’t done much research into that. iPhoto and Aperture are available for Mac users. I would suggest trying out the free trials where possible to see if you like the functionality. Currently I’m working on using InDesign.