Last year, after a fair bit of looking around, I made a photo book of Ant's first year using Picaboo. It was the only photobook editing tool I found that would allow a reasonable amount of text in addition to pictures, and allow for a larg-ish number of photos on a page.
This year I figured I'd look around again and see if there was anything else that was a bit more flexible - the one drawback of the picaboo software was that although there were quite a lot of page templates to choose from, they didn't necessarily combine the elements I wanted, and there was nothing I could do. I was hoping they'd have more templates by this time, but no dice.
I didn't find any other editing software that I liked better, so I started Ant's two year book in Picaboo again. Somewhere, though, I saw an ad for My Canvas, and thought I'd check it out, as it wasn't one I'd come across in my search.
I have to say that I love, love, love it! It's less expensive than Picaboo, and has complete and total flexibility. It comes with backgrounds with placeholders for text and pictures, but you can add more, edit sizes, duplicate any elements on the page. It's perfect! If anyone else is looking to make a photobook that is a bit more complex than the standard ones lots of places do, I cannot recommend this enough!
Of course, this is with the caveat that I don't know how the printing is going to turn out - we'll have to see on that.
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Way back before we were even thinking about kids for real, we were making fun of people who give their kids wierd names, or misspelled names. We joked that we would call our first son Phred, our second Fwed, and our third Schweffel (after a hockey player whose name we found amusing). Phred has arrived and turned into Antony, and Fwed became Timothy. Only time will tell if Schweffel will come to pass.
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5 comments:
Thanks, this is so useful to know! I really want to start doing this, but it's so overwhelming to imagine going back through 1000's of photos and text to do it. I just made my first photo books ever for the kiddos for Hanukkah on shutterfly -- little alphabet books with a photo of someone they know for each letter. I'm anxious to see how those turn out. Please let us know what yours are like!
I used blurb.com last year and was really happy with them. I need to make some of all our pictures. I can't remember the last time I actually had prints made.
I am in the process of using blurb too. I'll let you know how it comes out.
(btw I'm here now: http://rock-paper-blog.blogspot.com/)
Nic,
Blurb has page templates and they are pretty static. There's not an option to move things around on the page, just choosing a different template. That's the only limitation I found to be a bit annoying.
I haven't finished our project yet, so I can't vouch for quality yet.
hi! lurker wondering how My Canvas turned out... did you do the print, does it look good? thank you for the tip!
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