I want to start on making a yearly photobook for DS. Would it be better to make yearly family photobooks or keep it strictly focused on yearly stuff for DS?
What's your favorite size for photobooks?
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I've only ordered the 8x8 size because I've found several free coupons from Shutterfly. I have also only done them in 2 month increments and focused on LO. He will be 1 in a few months though and I know that doing a book every 2 months would be ridiculous at that age so I think I will transition to more of a family album and I will probable look into a larger book as well as more pages since 20 pages wont cut it for a year long book for us. Maybe 11x8? I was really probably no help....
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@coastmama: haha! No you did. I like your idea of doing a 1st year book focused solely on him, than transitioning to a family yearbook after that! Which do you think you'll like better? A square or more rectangular book? If you choose rectangular, portrait or landscape? Man, I have a lot of questions! sorry!
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@Alivoo01: Well.... I guess its all personal preference. You can view all the sizes on Shutterfly compared to one another. I will honestly probably end up going with square or portrait to give it a more "yearbook" feel. Square might be a bit more "artsy." I display the books now on the coffee table and I like how the square shape looks. I am absolutely addicted to making photo books. I used to scrapbook, but to me they give you the feel of a scrapbook, without all of the stuff and glue and work. Haha.
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I used to like 8*11 but transitioned quickly to 8*8 because of the free shutterfly promotions. Each kid got a baby book for the first year and the photobooks are family books- right now I usually make 3/year (2 that are about half a year worth of pictures and a third one for our family vacation). I take way too many pictures and putting a whole year's worth of pictures together is overwhelming for me.
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I did a lot of 8x11, then did 8x8 also because of all the free books also. But now I prefer the 8x11 and wish I hadn't bothered with the 8x8s cause now I just want to redo them all!
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@coastmama: Didn't think about the yearbook feel! Good point.
@PurplePumps: Thanks for your input. Are your books portrait or landscape?
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@Alivoo01: Landscape. I haven't made any portrait books yet even though I want to just to see how it looks. I think I prefer landscape though cause I prefer my eyes to go left to right when looking at photobooks, instead of 'reading' it like a text book. I also really like 11x11 books, but so far I've only seen that at Photobook America. 10x10 might be nice too. I just think 8x8 is a bit too small for any interesting layouts cause anything more than 2 or 3 pictures makes them look too small.
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