It’s already mid-October and time to be planning your Christmas holiday cards. We all know how time flies! I’ve found that every year I get more photo cards versus standard greeting cards, and I expect the trend to continue. It’s much more fun to receive a cards with a photo than a generic card, don’t […]
Photo Books – Understanding Color Tools
When making a photo book, color is a key part of your creation. There are several ways to find and select the right colors to make your photos and design pop. In most photo editing and design software programs, you have a choice of using the color picker, the eyedropper or the hex codes. We’ll […]
Photo Books: How to Change the Book Size After You Started
While it’s best to plan your photo book layout in advance, sometimes you can be in the middle of creating a book only to realize that the size just isn’t working for you. Maybe you got a lot of images from Facebook and they are lower resolution (meaning they will print better at a smaller […]
3 Great Ways to Rid Your House From Paper Clutter
Even though we live in a digital world today, we still have plenty of paper cluttering our lives, from boxes of old photos to ticket stubs from our favorite concerts, to our kid’s artwork that we can’t bear to part with. It’s time to say “I’m not going to take it anymore” and clean up […]
Photo Books: How to Use Facebook Images Without Losing Quality
If you’ve gotten the dreaded yellow warning sign on some of your photo book images, this means your photo has low resolution and may print blurry or pixilated. Quite often you will see this happen when you upload images from Facebook. Photo book sites such as Shutterfly and Mixbook and others allow their customers to […]
Proofing Your Photo Book: The Key to Printing a Picture Perfect Book
Printing a photo book to remember isn’t just about stunning photos or cool embellishments. The key to a great looking memento is to review, then proof it again…and again. Remember, your photo book is customized for you, by you. You chose the layout and colors, selected the photos, wrote the text, placed the images, etc. […]
Photo Books –Three Most Common Mistakes to Avoid
Making photo books online is a great way to show off your favorite photos. With more and more sites getting into the game, it is fast and fun to create a beautiful, quality book. I love making them and over time I have learned a few things about the process and found that there were […]
