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Tips for Creating Photo Books (before you start!)
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Cindy Maestas
November 30, 2007
I just created two online Photo Books to be used for Christmas gifts this year, and having done it, I feel like I’m an expert. Ok, not really, but I do have some tips that will make the process easier!
I did my Photo Books on Snapfish. Here’s how it works: First you upload your photos to the Snapfish web site and into online photo albums. Once you have done this, you can create all kinds of gifts like calendars, cards, books and more. You can choose layouts, book sizes, colors and arrange your photos using the easy Snapfish tools. Once you are done, you order your book and it comes professionally printed, bound and delivered to your door.
Here are my tips:
Does anyone else have any tips for Photo Books? If so, please share them!
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Cindy Maestas
November 30, 2007
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I did my Photo Books on Snapfish. Here’s how it works: First you upload your photos to the Snapfish web site and into online photo albums. Once you have done this, you can create all kinds of gifts like calendars, cards, books and more. You can choose layouts, book sizes, colors and arrange your photos using the easy Snapfish tools. Once you are done, you order your book and it comes professionally printed, bound and delivered to your door.
Here are my tips:
- If at all possible, have your photos organized ahead of time. My photos were in a bit of disarray. I keep them on an HP Personal Media drive, which I absolutely love, but my organization is a little bit lacking. So, I’d recommend taking a few hours one day to organize everything into useful folders and file names before you ever get started with creating photo gifts. Here is an article with some tips on organization.
- When you upload your photos to Snapfish, its best to upload them into an online album in the order that you want them to go in your book. I’d recommend creating one online album with all the photos that you want to use in your book. Once you are in the Photo Book tool, Snapfish presents them to you in the order that you uploaded so its just easier to add them to your book this way too. Also, if you choose the option of “easy fill”, which means Snapfish places all your photos in your book for you, then they are in the general order that you want them. This saves a lot of reordering time later.
- If you plan to create a book with large pages, such as 8.5x11 or 12x12, and you want some of your photos to take up the whole page, then you MUST use the option to upload high res images when you are uploading those photos to Snapfish.If you don’t do this then the image might not be a high enough resolution to be blown up to such a large page size. Snapfish tells you when you are about to use a photo that is too low res, but thinking about this ahead of time will save you time so you don’t have to re-upload the high res image again later.
- If you are doing more than one Photo Book, do the one that you think will contain the least amount of pages first. You learn a lot the first time you do a book and you will be more proficient at using the tools on the second go round. I finished my second book in a quarter of the time as my first book! So its best to start smaller and work your way up.
Does anyone else have any tips for Photo Books? If so, please share them!
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I created photo books for family for Christmas this year as well. We took a family vacation to FL with my family of 4, mother, father and brother-in-law and neice. I took over 1,000 pictures, no way I wanted to print everything that many times. I loved the ease of Snapfish. I selected about 125 pics and let Snapfish put the book together. That did not work it put 1 or 2 pics on each page and was over 45 pages. Way too expensive. I decided to select the layouts and put in the pictures the right way. You do have to be careful if Snapfish creates your book it does not distinguish vertical from Horizontal very well and will cut off some pics you want to see more of. I gave 3 books away and showed them off for the past 2 weeks before Christmas. Everyone enjoyed reliving SeaWorld, Disney World and the ocean. It was a wonderful surprise.
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