Lately, the million dollar question among my readers has been, "What photo company should I use now that MyPublisher is closed?" You've been reaching out via e-mail, Facebook comments and Messenger on this subject ever since the announcement was made in February and I'm still getting these messages now - months after the closure came to pass in May. At the outset, I put … [Read more...]
PBG Reader Alert: TinyPrints Moving to Shutterfly June 27, 2017
Since 2011, TinyPrints has been a part of Shutterfly. The TinyPrints brand retained its own identity after the acquisition and has had its own products such as cards, stationery, home decor and other photo gifts, but as of June 27, 2017, TinyPrints will no longer have its own website. It will migrate over to Shutterfly. Saved photos, addresses and account credits will be … [Read more...]
Best Photo Book Tips for Beginners
This is my first new post of the year! Happy 2015! It's been nearly five years since I started this blog, and from the beginning, I've enjoyed hearing from my readers and fellow photo book enthusiasts. Very commonly I get e-mails from folks who are new to photo books and don't know where to start. I usually point them to my "newbie" section where I've posted my Top 20 popular … [Read more...]
Photo Book Girl’s Top 7 Tips on Journaling (Plus a Flash Giveaway ENDED!)
FLASH GIVEAWAY! ENDED - THANKS FOR ENTERING! 5 Prizes from Photobook Canada and Photobook America I have 4 vouchers for a FREE photo book from Photobook Canada and 1 from Photobook America. Each is for a 20-page, 11x8.5 Medium Landscape Imagewrap Lite (shipping not included) Voucher expires Feb 28, 2014. The Canadian ones are only for delivery within Canada and is valued at … [Read more...]
How Should I Backup My Photos? Part IV – Photo Book Girl’s Plan B
My head is swimming with all the options out there for backing up my photos! To recap, I wrote a multi-part series on "How to Back Up Your Photos". My first post covered external hard drive and DVD backups. Part II took a look at photo sharing sites such as Flickr and Shutterfly and Part III was all about file storage in the Cloud. It's been great to hear from Photo Book Girl … [Read more...]
How Should I Backup My Photos? Part III – The Cloud Online File Storage
Welcome to Part III of my multi-part series on "How to Back Up Your Photos". To recap, my first post covered external hard drive and DVD backups. Part II took a look at photo sharing sites such as Flickr and Shutterfly. This post is about backing up not only photos and videos in the cloud, but any and all files that may reside on your computer, such as text documents, PDFs, … [Read more...]
How Should I Backup My Photos? Photo Sharing Sites – Part II
In Part I of this series on backing up your photos, I talked about what I currently do for storage which involves saving duplicates of my photos to several hard drives and occasional DVD burning. In this part, we'll take a look at photo sharing and photo storage sites. As mentioned earlier, not every possible company is listed below, but the more popular ones I could find or … [Read more...]
How Should I Backup My Photos? Hard Drives and DVDs – Part I
A discussion we've had a few times on Photobookgirl.com's Facebook fan page is about what to do with all those photos you've amassed in your hard drive. Before digital, you were likely in one of two camps: 1) those who printed out their photos (and left them in the envelope they came in), or 2) those who slipped them into photo albums or scrapbooks. Now that memory cards allow … [Read more...]
