Create Your Own Photo Book
It is so exciting to open up a beautiful book and see your memories come alive with photos and text!
You could create a book for:
-a vacation trip, event, or sports group
-a birthday, or other special occasion
-your own backyard flowers!
* Download Book Planning Sheet
Save Your Memories in a Book!
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Check out MyPublisher.com to make a professional looking photo book. You can download the software for FREE for either Windows or Mac (called BookMaker on the mac). The classic hard cover book is about $29.99. You create on your computer, then order it to be mailed to your house.
If you are a COSTCO customer, you can often get 20% off your My Publisher photo book - and $9 shipping!
Watch a demo of MyPublisher
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I love my Shutterfly 8x8 book---it is such nice quality, and a delight to thumb through! Check out the video tutorial tab on how to make your book at Shutterfly. -
Creating your book at the online sites at Shutterfly and Snapfish is such fun---as you get to choose the type of layout, background, borders, how many photos per page, etc!
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Costco Photo Book online has fewer options for layout and design.
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I found a cute little Hardbound, Spiral Book at Bartell’s. It is made in the store with 10 pages of collage pictures on colorful backgrounds that you can choose. $13 for 10 pages (you can add pages), hard cover with spiral inside.
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Tips and Techniques for Creating a Photo Book:
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1. Things to consider: size of book, how many photos on a page, background themes, hardback or paperback, how much text on each page. -
2. Download a copy of my Book Planning Sheet to help you plan your book---20 pages, and a choice of number of photos and text for each page.
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3. Shutterfly has specific instructions for making your book
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4. “My Publisher” - software to download to design your own book. Available PC and Mac. You create the book on your computer, then order the book. There are not as many background theme options in the My Publisher software, but still good! Be sure to back up your computer if you are working on the book for several days, etc!!
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5. Mac users can also design a book with iPhoto. Tour of Apple’s Photo Books, Calendars, and Cards - using iPhoto.
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6. Shutterfly has a whole section devoted to Scrapbook type pages---put “scrapbook” in the “search box”. Shutterfly also has many different themes for book background pages.
Scan Your Old Photos or 35 mm Slides:
- Shutterfly has partnered with Scan Cafe to scan old photos or 35mm slides for $.29 each! After they scan your images they will post them online, and you can then delete up to 50% of them before final payment.
Links to help with Organizing Your Photos:
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-Windows XP: Organize Your Digital Pictures
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-Windows: Top Tips for Organizing Your Digital Photo Collection
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-Windows Vista: Pictures and Video
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-Windows Vista: Help and How To
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-Picasa: Picasa Video Tutorials at Learning Electric
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-Picasa: Tutorials by Geeks on Tour
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-Mac folks using iPhoto - try these Videos
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-Mac folks: iPhoto 6 Video Tutorials