If you’ve hired a professional photographer for your wedding day you’ll have the opportunity to receive a beautiful album full of professional images. But what about all your friends and family that can’t afford an album or all the unprofessional, but still important, images your friends captured of your day?
This is when a company such as Photobox can be used to provide you with many more memories of your special day.
A printed present
I’ve used Photobox for years now for making photo albums of my holidays. In a digital age it’s very rare we print our pictures. In fact featuring special occasions in photo books is the only time I see my images in print!
I want to share with you a photo book I created for my friend Michelle and her husband Nick’s anniversary. When they hired a photographer for their wedding day their budget didn’t stretch to the photographer being there to capture the first dance or the drunken antics of their guests! So it was down to friends and family to capture these moments.
For their anniversary present I decided to gather these images up, as well as images of the hen and stag dos, and put them into a photo book.
Select a style
The process is pretty simple. Choose your style of book, they vary in cover styles and prices…
Upload all your images and you’re away!
A user interface allows you to select the layout of each page then you can drag and drop your images into the spaces provided and add text if you want to provide info on the image or if witty captions is your thing! You can also zoom in on an image if you want a closer crop (or out again if you change your mind) and a smiley green face will tell you if the image is good enough quality. If the face looks orange and unsure or red and sad then better to choose a different photo!
Extra pages can be added and pages swapped around if you want to change the order too and there are even multiple colours and designs of pages for you to choose from.
Making montages
For Michelle’s book I even created my own montages offline (making sure they were the same size as the page) and uploaded them as one big image, so if you’re handy with photo editing packages you can be even more creative.
Plus, I uploaded an image that wasn’t even a photo but instead some text and the graphic I had created for Michelle & Nick’s stationery suite.
I’m happy to say they loved their gift especially as the majority of images in it were taken after the photographer left and I also included the slightly sillier ones that wouldn’t have suited their fancy, traditional wedding album!
For family & friends
Those that buy a CD of images from their photographer could create a photo book full of professional images for friends and family. The photo books are saved too so if someone comes to you at a later date wanting one it is just a few clicks to purchase another.
Image ideas
Photo books aren’t just fantastic for wedding photos and holiday snaps you can use them for all sorts of things. I recently created a mini book in place of a birthday card for my brother’s 30th, with each page being a different year of his life. The A3 coffee table books would be amazing for budding photographers to put together an album of their images. You could even use photo books as portfolios! And Photobox don’t just do photo books! They make all sorts of gifts for you to add your images to. A few examples of which are here…
If you hurry you’ll have enough time to create personalised and precious photo creations for your loved ones this Christmas. In my opinion a gift of memories is one of the very best gifts you can give.
Debs
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Debs
