I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before: you can choose single-sided printing, meaning your images will be on the right side and the left side will be blank.You can set global elements such as font and page numbering. There’s a Settings tab where you can choose global elements, including setting a font style and color for your whole book as well as assigning page numbers.Photo and text boxes snap to the grid so aligning is easy and you can drag guides from the ruler so you can align images on the left and right pages.You can use an image for your page background and adjust the transparency.With one click you can make your image spread across two pages. There’s a one-click button to make an image span two pages.While the software says that you can choose from 50+ fonts, I found that it enabled me to use fonts I already had on my computer as well, so it greatly expanded my options.You can add and remove photo frames, resize and rotate them, and use the eyedropper to create custom font or background colors. The Book Maker software is easy to use – you just drag and drop photos onto the layouts and you can customize everything.This gives you the advantage of creating your book offline, which will appeal to some people but perhaps not everyone. Unlike the majority of photo book companies, MyPublisher has free book maker software that you download to your computer, rather than online software. ![]() I chose the Classic Hardcover, 11.25” x 8.75”, priced from $29.99 for the first 20 pages additional pages are 99 cents each, maxing out at 100 pages. Next, you choose from one of four book sizes ranging from an ultra-compact mini book to a deluxe, oversized landscape book. I’m kind of a control freak, so I used the Custom Publisher so I could lay out everything the way I wanted right from the beginning. When you start your book you have the choice of using the Custom Publisher which gives you total control over the design and layout, or the Simple Publisher, which will automatically fill your book and then you can tweak the layout. My Publisher’s photo books have a clean, elegant design, focusing on the images, so for a classy look that showed off my landscapes, it was a good choice for me. In fact, I think my book looks rather spectacular. Coincidentally, MyPublisher asked me to review their books so this was the perfect opportunity to check out their lay-flat option, and I’m glad I did. Until then you can find us taking pictures.I’ve kind of gotten addicted to making lay-flat photo books, and after returning from a visit to Sedona and the Grand Canyon I couldn’t wait to make one to show off my photos of gorgeous red rock formations and amazing canyon views. And if you’ve got another system – or an alternate photo storage trick – we’d love to hear about it. You can read our original post from 2010 with a little more about why we became photobook converts in the first place along what we put in that album. And it usually costs around 15 cents per picture on sites like Target or Shutterfly (that’s their best “bulk” price), so for 700 prints it would be $105! But you’d still need to buy albums if you were doing it the old school way (at Target they’re around $15 for each album, and they typically hold 200 photos, so to store 700 you’d need four albums! So to get a nice custom made book for $45.99 versus spending $165 for traditional prints & albums – well, we’re down. Which is a TON of photos for each year, but we’re snap-happy like that. If you do the math, 100 pages of photos with an average of 7 photos per page = 700 photos. ![]() But we imagine that even after a decade of yearbook-making we’ll be able to easily store (or display) ten or more of them in a nice little stack, as opposed to a decade’s worth of photo albums, which could easily take up an entire shelf.Īnd when it comes to cost, hello money in my pocket. Three photo albums wouldn’t be nearly as thin and easily storable or displayable (their pages are thicker and their bindings are huge).
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