Photo-rific book part 2

     For those following along you'll remember I was last working on a photo book to give our parents at the rehearsal dinner. I'm using Picaboo (only because I have a Groupon) and was having a bit of trouble getting used to it. I spent some more time on it yesterday and I think I'm getting in the swing of things. Lets go over it.

Things I like:
      There are thousands of back grounds. Really, it's amazing how many there are to choose from. I hope you aren't indecisive because you could spend at least an hour looking through those babies. I went with Vintage wall paper and also Vintage desk. Here's a screen shot of the first page with the Vintage desk back drop. (You're getting a sneak peek at the e pics!)

                                       Personal Screen Shot of Picaboo


       On the left you have a menu of options including album style, backgrounds, photo editing, corners and lay outs. At the bottom are all the pictures you have uploaded and you drag and drop from there.

      I noticed that if you do make a photo too big it will give you the "Back it up Lady!" exclamation point to tell you it's distorted. If you move a picture too far out of the printed area it will light up a yellow border warning you that content may get cut off during printing and to move it back in. Here's an example on the right hand page. You'll also notice in this screen shot is the red Vintage Wall paper back ground.

    Lay outs aren't always for me, I usually like to free style it and I noticed when you drag a picture up you do have a little option list that pops up and you can select "add as new photo". Very nice.  I find that a lot of lay outs leave a bunch of blank space on the page. Granted, you did just spend an hour and a half picking out the back ground but it's not a back ground book, it's a photo book, and I'm going to jam as many pics on that page as I can (with in good taste of course).
 
    I still have a little bit of tweeking to do. Things like making sure all photos have corners on them, making sure all the backgrounds match the page next to it and just over all editing. When I'm doing a project like this I like to not look at it for a few days and then come back with fresh eyes to see if there's anything I'd like to change.

     I was thinking about making an album for myself as well to use as the guest book. For this I would of course leave some room for writing and not have too many pictures on one page. I feel like you might run the small chance of someone drawing a mustache on your face though!


  How do you feel about using a photo album of your engagement pictures as your guest book? Any photo book tips?