What Are the Steps to Create a Personalized Photo Album?

Creating a photo album can be a relatively quick task or, conversely, a real challenge. To avoid many hassles, the trick consists of two points: imagining before starting your album what you want it to look like as a whole, and sorting your photos in advance, even before starting the album.

Our site offers you to use a composition software of the latest generation accessible to everyone. It is ergonomic, simple, and quick to use. You can place orders for your photo books in a few clicks.

The features for creating a photo album are, however, numerous. A new creative freedom is now offered to you. Create professional-quality albums yourself, printed on carefully selected paper (200g/m²), in your chosen online format.

More than a service, we provide you on our site with the tools of a true creative hobby. That's why it seemed necessary for us to accompany you with some pro tips.

Our team is pleased to share with you their expertise. You can now produce a printed product with that extra touch of soul, the result of a well-known creative process for artists. This personalized touch makes all the richness of the memory or gift that you are about to produce on glossy paper.

We believe that a creative person lies dormant in everyone, and creating your personalized album with photos allows you to combine usefulness with pleasure. We hope our tips will help you reveal yourself! You can also design your calendar, or return to the general presentation pages of photo books.

On What Occasion to Create a Photo Album?

Before gathering your photos, target your need, ask yourself why create a personalized photo album.

We have had the surprise of noticing that our clients are sometimes very innovative. We invite you to examine the subjects of traditional and essential books, as well as the new possibilities that are available to you thanks to the technological boom. It has evolved our way of communicating, commemorating events, preserving a memory of the past. A little clarification: in the digital age, publishing professionals notice that most people remain attached to the book-object. It even holds an increased symbolic value among the new generations, as digital utility supports are simple to use.

The book becomes a real jewel case. The aim is now to highlight the best photos among all those often excessively and disorderly stored in computers and phones. The paper book is the real and lasting support of a moment of shared happiness, and albums are often ordered in several paper copies for a group of people.

We've thought of you! The following themes are offered to you with a default graphic style:

• Classic (white theme).
• Birthday.
• Baby, birth.
• Wedding.
• Travel, vacation.
• Cooking recipes.
• Love, romantic.
• Family.
• Party.
• Professional.
• Class, school.

Nothing obliges you to follow our theme and layout suggestions, you can combine them according to your desires. For example, you can create a travel booklet with the layout of a wedding book.

Starting from the white and neutral theme of the classic photo album, you will more easily give free rein to your imagination. Feel free to preserve the most beautiful pages of your life, and other themes may come to mind:

• Children's story.
• Autobiography, memoirs.
• Logbook, chronicles.
• Graphic novel, photo novel.
• Real estate, decor.
• Manual, instructions, guidelines.

The collective design of the album pages can be an opportunity for a shared hobby with children, friends, and grandparents.

What Formats Are Available to You?

Here are in ascending order the six formats available to you:

• A5 portrait orientation (21X15 cm).
• A5 landscape orientation (15X21 cm).
• A4 portrait orientation (29.7X21 cm).
• A4 landscape orientation (21X29.7 cm).
• Small square size (21X21 cm).
• Large square size (30X30 cm).

Feel free to delve deeper into the subject with our layout tips here.

What's the Secret to a Successful Print?

Use our creation tool for a moment of pure pleasure for yourself! Your enthusiasm will be felt in your books.

Starting from our online photo album, embark on a journey through your memories by transforming them to your taste. For this, let your imagination work. What colors and styles do you like? You can unify your production or choose several colors. What images and photos do you enjoy? Get inspired by albums, magazines, films, artworks, and landscapes that you like.

Let your personality shine. You can thus create a truly unique little gem. It is preferable to do your work over several sessions. Each step can be saved and resumed later without any time limit.

How to Create a Shared Moment of Happiness?

It's time to think about the recipients. Their reading comfort first depends on the quality of the photos. You will share with them your best shots that you can edit before uploading them to the photo album software. Consider optimizing the framing; for this, you will probably need to crop them. Is the brightness not ideal? Use filters.

Also, keep in mind that recipients might want to participate in the design of the personalized album.

How to Compose a Cover?

Here are a few elements to succeed with the cover of your personalized photo book. Think of the reader who will take out the album from their bookshelf years later: they should be able to identify the content at a glance, either through images or the title.

• Who are the people in the photos? (who?)
• What is the period or specific date? (when?)
• Where were the photos in the album taken? (where?)
• What is the theme of the album? (what?)
• On what occasion was the album given? (why?)

Tip for the cover: If you choose a single cover photo, make sure to check every detail of the composition, which will be more visible in real size (especially avoid unflattering elements). Prefer a cover with several small photos if they are of lesser quality.

What Written Message Do You Want to Convey?

You have the possibility to insert text. Here are a few ideas for which you can ask for the participation of your friends and family, not forgetting the cover:

• A simple and informative, humorous, sentimental title...
• An anecdote, a memory.
• A question, a riddle.
• A short travel story.
• A chronicle with the date of each event.
• A brief biography.
• An inspired poem.
• Song lyrics.
• Quotes from writers (you can find them on the internet on a theme of your choice).

Don't forget to proofread the texts, as mistakes will be more apparent on a printed medium. Ideally, have them proofread by someone else.

How to Add an Even More Original Touch to Your Publications?

Besides your personal photos, you can of course scan and import your own drawings, watercolors, paintings, without forgetting artwork produced by children and teenagers. You can also download other images: illustration pages, art pieces, games, and puzzles... but be careful to respect copyright when reproducing on a printed medium. Ideally, choose only royalty-free images.

You can of course scan and import your own creations. In this case, the personalized photo scrapbook is for you, go for it! How about trying your hand at creating a photo novel? (You can find a thorough definition on Wikipedia). And why not a few pages of an original comic strip?

All you need is a camera or a smartphone, a bit of patience, and new perspectives will open up to you.