Digital Photo Books - Create Your Own!

Ideas for Making Your Own

Digital photo books are a wonderful way to present your photos. There is no substitute for the pleasure to be derived from holding concretized memories in your hands. A photo book is also a wonderful way to give permanence to your memories and to present them in such a way that you can easily share them with your family and friends and perhaps give them their own copy as a personalized gift from you.

Another reason for creating a photo book may be to act as a portfolio to present your own work as a creative individual when applying for entry to a college or if you are going to visit editors or other professionals who may help move your career along!

And a third category of photo book is of course the wedding photo book which professional photographers produce for their customers.

If you are looking for more ideas then here are a few to help you get inspired:

Family History: Choose your best photographs from different family events such as weddings, christenings and so on, and put them together in a photo book. Get the kids involved in the project and give every child his or her own copy. You could also create a book just about family members with a separate page for each person. You can ask relatives what they remember about each photo and add comments.

Group Gifts: Make a book for your employees or scout group... books like this can be used to raise funds.

Children's Projects: Children love creating photo books. They can include their own artwork or be books about the family or books that help your children to learn.

Child's 'Center Stage' Book: Make your child the star in their favourite story book by using their picture - Shutterfly has a choice of different story books.

Weddings - Digital photo books make make very special wedding gifts and they are easy to make. If you are a wedding photographer, you will certainly want to make a wedding book part of the photo package.

Team Books: Create a book for your sports team.

Year Books: Create a book that reviews the year just passed, perhaps for your school or for your family or friends.

Baby You can make a beautiful book of your baby using the baby themes that photo book publishers provide - there is usually a great range of templates available. Grandparents will be over the moon with a book like this and it's a wonderful way to preserve fleeting memories of your baby.

Travel: Everyone has had great vacations that deserve to be remembered with a photo book. Or you can create a book with your best photographs from a series of trips. A travel book is a great way to share your holiday memories with your friends.

Gifts: Digital photo books make very special Christmas presents especially for family members such as grandparents.

And yet more...

4th July (14th July if you live in France as I do!)
Pets
Birthdays, engagements and other anniversaries
Graduation Day
Biography Book
Disney Land
Family Reunion Book
Gardens
Halloween
Honeymoon
Pregnancy
Professional Portfolio
My Home Town
Thanksgiving
Year Book

Find a Print Company

There are a lot of good printers around and they all offer different services. Choosing a print company to make your photo book for you will be a very personal choice depending on whether price is the most important thing or quality or choice of templates or....

So make sure that the print company you choose is going to produce a book that fits your needs. Take your time to look around because when you do find one you really like, the next time you want to make a digital photo book you will already have a relationship with a good company which can make all the difference.

Here is my choice of some of the best print companies around: