Their print quality is crisp and colors come closest to duplicating what I see on my screen. Even after trying many other photo companies, I’d have to say, that MyPublisher remains one of my favorites. I often save ticket stubs, airline tickets, menus, maps, brochures, and receipts to scan for a personalized touch.Īs some of you may know, MyPublisher was the first company I used to make a photo book about 5 years back. Here are two other types of custom pages, more scrapbook in style. You can take a single photo and use the photo boxes to break up the photos for a different effect. You’ll also see that I used them more than once, interspersed throughout the book. What’s great is that I can reuse them as is or change them up a bit for future books.īelow are a few custom templates I did for the interior pages. ![]() Just create a few chapter pages like mine for a custom look without a major time investment. You don’t have to create 100 different page layouts to make a custom looking 100-page book. You want to have variety, but you want your book to have a cohesiveness too. Notice that the different chapter pages are variations on the main theme I created. The other side of the thank you card featured photos from our wedding and a space to write a personal message to the recipient – when I get a chance I’ll post more photos of the card if you’re interested. Same idea.) MyPublisher’s books feature a vellum overlay at the front and back. (You may also recall me scanning our wedding invitation to include in our wedding photo books. It made a perfect start to the book as it gave an overview of our entire trip. This is actually the inside of our thank you card – a map of our honeymoon with photos highlighting each place we visited. For the first page of the book, I used a design I made of our custom wedding thank you cards. I’m a big fan of repurposing things I’ve already used for another project. However, it would be pretty time consuming for me to create 100 pages in an outside program and then convert them to jpegs wouldn’t it? The key is to create some custom layouts to enhance your photo book – therefore I made two main types of custom pages in my outside design program:ġ) Chapter Pages – these are custom two-page layouts I created to start off each city or major place we visited Ģ) Custom Photo Book Layouts – these pages that I could sprinkle in between the standard templates already provided by MyPublisher Both programs can be pretty pricey though, but if you want to be able to print your books with any company out there, having external design software gives you the most flexibility. Adobe InDesign is also a popular option for custom layouts. I created these layouts with QuarkXPress – a design program which allows you to create custom layouts. I have done several books with MyPublisher, and over time, I wanted to be able to get more creative with the page layouts. Hopefully they won’t forget about the Mac users and get their software up to date soon! (UPDATE: Mac users now have the ability to customize layouts too!) Check out this post for my review of MyPublisher’s software.Īlthough I think MyPublisher has some of the best print quality out there, the company’s fixed templates became too inflexible for me over time. Currently the options are available for PC users but not for Mac users, so I don’t know when I’ll get around to trying out those new features. ![]() Many folks told us that it wasn’t possible to cover such a vast place in such a short period of time, and we did have to make some compromises, but we picked the top cities of interest to us and it was definitely a we had a great time (even though I got sick with a bad cold by city #3!)Īt the time I made this book, MyPublisher did not offer customizable layouts or lay flat pages. My husband and I enjoyed a whirlwind two-week vacation in Australia and New Zealand. It’s such an amazing place, the gorgeous underwater landscapes deserved their own book! I also did a beautiful honeymoon highlight book with Picaboo (check out my Picaboo Madison review). Check out this post, if you’re interested in seeing my earlier photo book on the Great Barrier Reef (an Aperture 3/iPhoto Review). (I couldn’t squeeze all my photos into one book!) But, I guess you’d expect nothing less from PhotoBookGirl right? Although this is a two-volume series, I’ve already done two other books on my honeymoon. It was one way to get around the 100-page limit. You may laugh when I tell you that this photo book is only the first book in a two volume series on my honeymoon. There’s so many things I intend to accomplish with this post, but before I get too far ahead of myself, let’s get the stats: Book size:
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