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Post by ScrappyJac on Aug 25, 2014 14:30:39 GMT
For those of you that do both scrapbooks and photobooks, how do you decide which to use for a particular event/trip/topic? I have strictly gone the scrapbook route in the past....but that means thousands of pictures are waiting to be documented. I am thinking about transitioning to using photobooks to document our travels. It seems like it would be much less time consuming and it would get the photos in a place where we could actually enjoy them.
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Post by Linda on Aug 25, 2014 15:33:42 GMT
Usually I do photobooks for stuff I'm dreading scrapping - either because it's something that I've already scrapped before once or several times and now we've done again and taken more photos (DH has done two overnights on the USS Alabama - I scrapped the first but am considering a photo book for the second) or it's a camping trip that my husband went on with Boy SCouts and took photos but I'm not excited about scrapping them. I am strongly considering a photo book for Legoland also just because there are SO many photos
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 15:36:27 GMT
I agree it would be better to have your pictures where you can enjoy them. Not only are they less time consuming, they don't take up as much room on the bookshelf and you don't have to have a scrapbook room.
I do photobooks for a short or weekend trip. I always wait for a sale or coupon.
A longer trip would be pretty expensive or I could not print all the pictures I would want. I really have trouble spending so much on a photobook and at the same time, have all these supplies and a scrapbook room.
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Post by berta147 on Aug 25, 2014 17:34:07 GMT
I have not done a photo book, but have checked them out on Shutterfly.
If I have a big trip or event to scrap now, I have found combining trad. Scrapping with pocket pages works for me.
Usually make a single page with a larger print of my fav photo and fill in the rest with pocket pages. Plus easy room for journaling.
Best of both worlds to me and not have another photo book to fit in with my albums. I don't scrap in order, but do like my photos/pages in chrono order.
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Post by juliebean on Aug 25, 2014 20:32:36 GMT
I recently did my first photo book - a 22 page gift album for my niece of our Disney vacation. Once I got used to the software, it went pretty fast. I think I could see myself using them for a year end highlights, for small trips, or gift albums.
Maybe you could try one out for a small trip and see how you like it?
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 26, 2014 3:23:22 GMT
By photo book, do you mean a digital one from Shutterfly or just a regular photo album with the sleeves to slip printed photos into--no journaling or details, etc.? I have done several digital scrapbooks through Shutterfly of my DD's first six months. I thought it would be quicker but their software at the time was kind of buggy so it was frustrating and time consuming. I used a sleeve type photo album once for snapshots from our wedding reception and honeymoon, and I don't think anyone has ever looked at those photos. I ended up taking some of them out to scrap.
My MIL would put photos in albums without any journaling or anything. But I think albums of photos only without the story or any details just lacks something for me and they aren't nearly as interesting. I think that having the story from a particular person's point of view is what makes a scrapbook (traditional, digital or PL, the format really doesn't matter) so compelling to me. I could see doing traditional layouts and putting sleeves for extra photos you didn't use on layouts in between, that way people could see all the additional pictures while still getting the whole back story that the traditional layout provides.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 26, 2014 3:30:12 GMT
My favorite pages to scrap are the trips. I usually do a 25 page layout for each trip. Now the day to day stuff, that would be easier to give up.
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Post by ScrappyJac on Aug 26, 2014 17:06:58 GMT
crazy4scraps These would be digital photobooks through Shutterfly/Blurb/etc. I would add pics and journaling. I may be wrong, but I feel like it might be a quicker method than traditional, or even Project Life style, scrapping.
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Post by ScrappyJac on Aug 26, 2014 17:09:47 GMT
950nancy The trip pictures are my favorites to re-visit (which is why I would like to have them somewhere other than my hard drive). I have been doing Project Life for the last 5 years (yikes!) and I love the albums. Once upon a time ago, I wouldn't have been an "everyday" type of scrapper either, but I love this method. Trips do get documented briefly, but it only includes a few photos....and I take a ridiculous amount on trips.
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Post by kristi on Aug 26, 2014 17:56:20 GMT
I do photo books for our vacations, school years & sports.
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Post by christinebk on Aug 26, 2014 19:06:32 GMT
I only do scrapbooks or project life. I just like paper and embellishments way too much to just make a book with photos.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2014 19:31:15 GMT
These would be digital photobooks through Shutterfly/Blurb/etc. I would add pics and journaling. I may be wrong, but I feel like it might be a quicker method than traditional, or even Project Life style, scrapping.
I agree with you. Each one you do is easier and faster as you learn all the little details of the program.
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Post by ScrappyJac on Aug 26, 2014 20:27:54 GMT
I only do scrapbooks or project life. I just like paper and embellishments way too much to just make a book with photos. I think that is where I have been in the past, but my style is evolving to be more simplified. Now, this may just be a factor of not having enough time and wanting to get things done. I think the embellished/pretty paper side is why I have dismissed photobooks in the past. I also am not sure what I will do with the memorabilia....scan it, store it elsewhere, etc.... |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 26, 2014 22:04:18 GMT
Ok then, now I know what you mean. It has been several years since I've made one of those and I hope their software is easier to use now than it was then. At the time I thought it would take less time to do the books that way, and it would have--if something wouldn't have gone all wonky causing me to have to redo the whole entire 20 page book! Ugh, frustrating! I could have made a simple traditional scrapbook in the same amount of time it took me to fight through that, and I probably could have done it PL style even quicker but that wasn't what I was going for. Maybe the software they use is better now, but at that time it was slow and very clunky to do even the simplest things.
If you are fairly proficient with PSE (or another similar software) I could see where it might save you some time doing the pages that way and upload all the finished pages to Shutterfly or where ever, plop them in the book in the right order and get it printed. The advantage to doing it with PSE etc. is that then you can use whatever digi collections you want, predesigned "quick pages" would make it go even faster, and get exactly the look you're going for. I wasn't too impressed with Shutterfly's options for backgrounds and "stickers" (LOL!) back then either but I went with it to just get it done. If I had to do those books over now, I would definitely use PSE to design the pages and just upload the completed layouts instead of using Shutterfly's online book generator software.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 27, 2014 1:41:54 GMT
950nancy The trip pictures are my favorites to re-visit (which is why I would like to have them somewhere other than my hard drive). I have been doing Project Life for the last 5 years (yikes!) and I love the albums. Once upon a time ago, I wouldn't have been an "everyday" type of scrapper either, but I love this method. Trips do get documented briefly, but it only includes a few photos....and I take a ridiculous amount on trips. I still do both. I want my memories scrapped. I do some PL for books that might have a lot of pics from one event. I recently went to the 911 Memorial in NYC. I have been updating the progress every two years or so. Now that the memorial is finished, I took so many pictures. Those will all go PL style between the two regularly scrapped pages. We go somewhere tropical every spring break. I bet I get 1,000 pictures from each trip and scrap about 200 of them. Thank goodness for wallet sizes. By " everyday" do you mean PL? Or do you mean the day to day events? I'm not sure what that means to other people. |
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Post by kluski on Aug 27, 2014 2:02:47 GMT
I have photo books of vacations, Christmas, first communion, and a rare blizzard however I also print a hard copy of the pics used and put them in an envelope in the back of the book so there is a pic to copy when someone asks for it.
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Post by ScrappyJac on Aug 27, 2014 12:53:53 GMT
For me, the everyday means all the little things outside holidays/events/vacations. Before PL, I would have never done an entire page about a meal, a simple date night, etc. My albums only showed the "big things". I think it was a function of time. I am a slow scrapper when it comes to traditional pages, so there wasn't time for the "little things". So, my PL albums are a much better view of what real life looks like. |
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Post by aggiebonfire00 on Aug 27, 2014 16:26:22 GMT
I am thinking about doing Shutterfly books for the year, and then scrapbooking my favorite photos. I just don't have time to scrapbook all the pictures I take, and I hate that they are all "stuck" on my computer!
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Post by ametallichick on Nov 5, 2014 18:57:27 GMT
I want to create a photo book for a friend of mine for a Christmas present of a concert we went to in 2011.
I would like to know if you can totally create the pages like a digital scrapbook page?
I have a lot of files for digital scrapbooking I bought from the lilypad, sweet shoppe, etc. and I would like to make this book totally custom from cover to cover.
I am proficient in PS but do any of these sites have templates to use in Photoshop to do the covers, etc?
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Post by myboysnme on Nov 6, 2014 0:31:51 GMT
I do photobooks when I am doing a book for someone else - like when my mom and I went to Europe, I scrapped my pics but did hers in a photo book. I fit our entire trip in one photo book when my pictures took up 2 huge 12x12 albums.
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Post by scrapperdee on Nov 6, 2014 0:49:34 GMT
I do a photo book of what we did during the summer (one for each of the last 3 years). I also did one for a girl's trip to Phoenix....allowed me to give as a gift to the girls that attended the trip
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Post by redshoes on Nov 6, 2014 0:55:54 GMT
I switched to photo books for all vacations simply so I could include more pictures in a shorter timeframe (compared to paper-scrapping). Some of our trips took me 20 pages to complete so they would take up half of my family album. I'm much happier now that I've switched!!
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Post by cdnmom on Nov 12, 2014 12:06:07 GMT
I use photobooks for gifts for the grandparents each year and this year I will make one for each of my boys from a trip one went on with his grandparents that I really dont know alot about ( 3 weeks in Europe) and my other son wants all his zoo animal pictures in one place. But for me I love traditional scrapbooks:)
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