How to choose the right size for your photo album?
Published on 18/06/2019 00:00 by Mathieu Clouté

Photo Album format
It is very important to keep your most beautiful memories in pictures within a beautiful medium, whether it be a photo album, a personalized book or a mini photo book. One of the steps in creating your online photo book inevitably involves choosing the format and therefore the layout of your album or personalized book.
There are several dimensions and two possible orientations to create your personalized photo album. The orientation and dimensions you choose depend on several elements:
- The type of photographs, for a wedding photo book, a travel photo album or a baby photo album, for example.
- The number of pages you wish to edit for your fully customizable album.
- The purpose of creating this personalized photo book (to give away or to keep for a long time).
- The place where you want to keep it. If you want to store it in your library, for example, the portrait orientation is the best. On the other hand, if you want to make your photo book a decorative item, the landscape orientation is the most advised.
The A4 format
In the creation of photo albums, this format is the most common and classic. It comes in two orientations: portrait and landscape.
- The portrait format is the most popular layout, as it is suitable for all customizable books, for both personal and professional use. Its dimensions are 21 cm in length by 29.7 cm in width.
- The landscape format has the same measurements as the portrait format, but is presented on its length. It is perfect for a prestige photo book, a wedding photo album, a landscape or travel photo book, among others.
The A5 format
The A5 format is narrower and suitable for all types of mini format personalized albums. It is suitable for the creation of different types of albums, to store different types of photos. It comes in portrait and landscape mode. Its dimensions are 15 cm in length by 21 cm in width for the landscape orientation, and 21 cm in length by 15 cm in width for the portrait.
- The A5 portrait format
- The A5 landscape format
The square format
The square format is a mini format that originally was used for the insertion of round-shaped photos. It is an original and design format, available in two dimensions, namely 21 cm by 21 cm for the small square and 30 cm by 30 cm for the large square.
- The small square allows for the creation of mini albums, easy to store and prestigious. This format can be chosen to preserve the photos of your finest dishes, your children’s drawings, or the newborn pictures of the youngest to create a retro-style album, for example.
- The large square is the widest square format. Its imposing dimensions make it the best support for your large genealogical photos, school promotion memory photos, beautiful landscapes of your last vacations, or your beautiful group pictures during your wedding, for example.
Once you have made the difficult choice of the format of your vacation, wedding, birthday or birth photo book, among others, the next and no less delicate step is the layout of your photo album. Our tool has been designed to allow you to create beautiful layouts easily. Feel free to use the "Layout" tab to view our library of layouts. Each layout is fully customizable.