Last month I finished laying out photo books from our travels over the past 4 years or so, and today the printed books arrived. I had Blurb print them, and they look great. I reused the layout from my first photo book so they’d look like a set on my shelf, and I included my journaling from each trip in the back of the books. It gives me a thrill to see them all together! Maybe by the time I’m an old lady I’ll have a whole bookcase full of memories. I hope so. Do you print your photos, or do you only store them digitally?
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Eeek! I love these! I love that the cover looks like a real photo sitting there, too… :) I’m hoping to get some of these done for myself this year with all of my & the mister’s trips so far – I have for a while, now, I have to finally do it!
Love your books! I used blurb for our honeymoon book last year. I loved how it turned out. I started another book for our wedding photos but I have yet to finish that one yet. I normally scrapbook all my photos but I saw so many bloggers using blurb I thought I would give it a try for our honeymoon photos. I wanted to do something more with those than just a scrapbook. Having a book made makes every photo look better.
I love these! I made a book with blurb a couple years ago for my husbands trip to India, and it turned out really well. I’ve been meaning to make more, but just haven’t. You’ve inspired me to finally make them!
Hi, just found your blog when I was searching for ideas n painting terracotta pots and am so glad I did, it’s lovely! Your photobooks are beautiful, I really love the way the cover ‘pops’. I haven’t printed many photos out for some time now, but I hope to do something similar to what you’ve done once I get all my photos organised. It’s so nice to be able to flick through an actual hand held book of memories I think x
Awesome! I’m glad you found me! :)
Wow these photobooks looks so
professional made! Love the
quality of it c:
xx
This is *such* a good idea. I wish I was better at taking photos (saving up for a nicer camera)! Always enjoy your vacation photos, I know these books are beautiful!
I love how you made a ”set’ of these! Ive done a few travel books, but I’ve played around with sizes and styles. Feeling a little
** inspired to start making something more in unison now :D
Ugh! I have about 6 years of photos I want to Blurb! I love your matching set idea. Blurb makes pretty books. :)
These are so beautiful!
Wow your books look beautiful! How did you come up with the designs, is there a template that you modified or did you do it from scratch? Would you mind sharing a tutorial for the pages that look like photos with frames and shadows (like the title page)?
I’d love to print some holiday pictures with blurb!
Thanks
I designed my books from scratch in Adobe InDesign. To do the title pages that look like photos with shadows, I cut white card stock into rectangles and taped them to the wall in different arrangements. I photographed the arrangements and dropped the photographs in digitally with InDesign. I’ve always found that photographing real shadows ends up looking a lot better than faking them with Photoshop. :)
Thanks for your answer Amanda! So just to understand you right, you also chose the background already and taped the frames on that (that is now the background color)? Or did you magically cut the shadows that you photographed?
Like anna I would love to see more shoots from the photo books and/or tips to make our own!
Thanks
Yes! The background color of the collage photo pages is the paint color of my dining room wall. I taped the white frames to the wall and took a photo of the whole thing. I basically made the layout on my wall instead of on the computer (with the exception of overlaying the photographs in InDesign). I prefer not to go into technical/software tutorials on my blog, but I’m happy to answer questions when I can! :)
wow! they’re so beautiful! things like that take me forever to make, I always feel like it’s not going to be good enough or I won’t like it later on. So, I only have one photo book I made from my daughter’s first year, otherwise I just have photo albums. Would love to know more about your process! :)
Hey, photo albums are great too! :)
That’s really cool that you took pics for the layouts, very creative! and much more natural looking!
Wow, they’re wonderful! So great that you printed your pictures, I always get really annoyed at myself for not doing that because really, what’s the point in shlepping your camera everywhere on holiday and then forget about your photos as soon as you’ve returned home. I need to get onto that. Thanks for the reminder:)!
Absolutely, 100% inspiring! Thank you so much!
Very Beautiful! I do a little bit of both online documenting through my blog and then this year I started a Project Life album and have been documenting the year week by week. It really is fun to go back and see your pictures printed out!
simply stunning!
very beautiful. what a wonderful collection
They look beautiful! My boyfriend once made a photobook of his photos of one of our travels. It’s quite special to hold the book in your hands, and view it like you would the old photobooks of your parents. I’m thinking I should make these books of our travels more often.
I store all of mine on flickr. I’ve had a pro account for years, and I have albums all the way back to 2001 on there. The original intent was to have a back up in case we ever had a hard drive crash. But now it’s become my main way to share all our journeys and events with our friends and family. It’s also nice bc friends and family can download any they want too!
Hi Amanda
Beautiful books! Do you mind telling me the name of the font you used?
Thanks, Jen
Thanks! The font is Mrs Eaves.