Photobooks that show file name as caption

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Photobooks that show file name as caption Feb 25, 2022 23:03:39 GMT

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Post by FuzzyMutt on Feb 25, 2022 23:03:39 GMT

Hi there! I have a daunting project that I am quite a ways through. I know I'm not the first one that has done this project! LOL

I'm scanning a bunch of old photos, and of course going through the agony of naming them. I have settled on a couple key structures Yearish_date if known_whose album it came from_people in photo_and event _ or where if known.

That's it, generally speaking.

I'd like to make photo books for a few people (the same for all.)

1. If I could have EXACTLY what I want, I'd be able to dump all the photos digitally, have it put together a rough outline based on my file names (hence starting with Year) and/or I upload a ton of photos and drop them on pages.

Important: My file names would be printed under the photos or beside them or something. Even better if I still have a little space to write notes for some of them. I'm providing a digital copy of all the images to each person and I'd like them to be able to find the images, plus it is quite descriptive.

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2. I go through the effort to put a bunch of photos on an image in photoshop and add my file names and notes. This seems super labor intensive. I'd prefer NOT to do this, as I'm already working on a couple special pages for each person (to be included in all books) and a QR code section for videos.

3. If a designer or a Pea designer has PS template or something that may be useful (I'm willing to purchase something that will cut down my labor!!) please share!

Ideas? Been there done that advice? I want these books to look nice, clean, polished and the photos to be great. Quality is first concern. If this takes me forever, so be it lol

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Photobooks that show file name as caption Feb 26, 2022 1:57:36 GMT

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Post by joblackford on Feb 26, 2022 1:57:36 GMT

I'm pretty sure Blurb Bookwright software allows you to auto-fill a book based on date taken (or created) but I don't think you can auto-fill by filename. You can skip the auto-fill though, just import the photos and sort them by filename, then drag them onto pages one by one pretty quickly. I believe you'd have to add the filename and text page by page but you can set up the book with the basic page layout you want and add the text pretty easily. It's faster than doing it in Photoshop. Bookwright is an offline free app you use on your computer so you can take all the time you like fine-tuning the book before you upload and order.

www.blurb.com/blog/new-bookwright-features/

Blurb is not necessarily the best photo quality though. It's good enough for most purposes and pretty cost effective but other more professional companies might be better for your needs.

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Photobooks that show file name as caption Feb 26, 2022 5:39:47 GMT

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Post by FuzzyMutt on Feb 26, 2022 5:39:47 GMT

Feb 26, 2022 1:57:36 GMT joblackford said:

I'm pretty sure Blurb Bookwright software allows you to auto-fill a book based on date taken (or created) but I don't think you can auto-fill by filename. You can skip the auto-fill though, just import the photos and sort them by filename, then drag them onto pages one by one pretty quickly. I believe you'd have to add the filename and text page by page but you can set up the book with the basic page layout you want and add the text pretty easily. It's faster than doing it in Photoshop. Bookwright is an offline free app you use on your computer so you can take all the time you like fine-tuning the book before you upload and order.

www.blurb.com/blog/new-bookwright-features/

Blurb is not necessarily the best photo quality though. It's good enough for most purposes and pretty cost effective but other more professional companies might be better for your needs.

Thank you so much for all your information!! It sounds like a nice software, but, the photo quality is super important to me. There may just be more to this than I wanted to put into it. That said... I've spent decades documenting the last couple decades. I am thinking with the copy paste feature and such I should be able to make this happen pretty quickly (relative term lol)

I'm about half way through the photo scanning and naming them has become pretty quick and easy. I feel like if I jump in the deep end while the photos are fresh, I'll save alot of time and what if's later.

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Photobooks that show file name as caption Feb 26, 2022 7:13:46 GMT via mobile

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Post by malo on Feb 26, 2022 7:13:46 GMT

Feb 26, 2022 1:57:36 GMT joblackford said:

I'm pretty sure Blurb Bookwright software allows you to auto-fill a book based on date taken (or created) but I don't think you can auto-fill by filename. You can skip the auto-fill though, just import the photos and sort them by filename, then drag them onto pages one by one pretty quickly. I believe you'd have to add the filename and text page by page but you can set up the book with the basic page layout you want and add the text pretty easily. It's faster than doing it in Photoshop. Bookwright is an offline free app you use on your computer so you can take all the time you like fine-tuning the book before you upload and order.

www.blurb.com/blog/new-bookwright-features/

Blurb is not necessarily the best photo quality though. It's good enough for most purposes and pretty cost effective but other more professional companies might be better for your needs.

I use blurb software 👍

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Photobooks that show file name as caption Feb 26, 2022 16:10:01 GMT

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Post by joblackford on Feb 26, 2022 16:10:01 GMT

This might give you some more ideas but it may be written for the average consumer who is excited to see their photos printed and may not need the highest quality.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-photo-book-service/

I think www.mpix.com/ might be another option that I think I've heard people praise here.

This company came up in a search but I don't know anything about them:
photobooks.pro/

It's hard to say if blurb's quality is "good enough" or not. I usually don't spring for the premium papers and I'm not always using the best images to start with, just snaps from family members, some of which need a lot of editing because I can't seem to teach my SIL about backlighting. The printing may be very good but if the original photo is not well lit or sharp it's not going to look great, know what I mean? Old photos can be much sharper than new phone photos, it depends how old they are and on scan settings and so on.

I would probably try to find out what services wedding photographers use to create photo books for clients if photo quality is your biggest concern.

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