craftykitten
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Post by craftykitten on Sept 15, 2015 20:44:28 GMT
I've just got back from a week long trip to Cornwall (it was beautiful!). I took over 2000 photos, which I have narrowed down to 250-ish. And now, I am planning my album. I have a spreadsheet with the list of places/stories/photos, and I have a page template set up in Publisher where I am working out what's going to go where. I'm using a combination of 12x12 and Design A pocket pages.
It seems like a lot of work, but I just want to be able to order my prints and put my pages together without having loads left over, or ones that are the wrong size...and I would really, really like to finish this album and not have it sitting on the shelf until we go on our next holiday.
I don't know why I'm telling you this - accountability, maybe? Anyone done similar?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2015 21:02:09 GMT
Let me know how that works out. I couldn't even tell you how many orders I make or how many pics I have leftover! And I wouldn't know a spreadsheet if it bit me.
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Post by deekaye on Sept 15, 2015 21:06:23 GMT
Good luck; I think your plan sounds great! Whenever I have a big trip or event to scrap, I always try to be sooooo careful to decide exactly what photos to have printed.... but I always end up with lots of leftovers. 'Seems wasteful because I usually just end up tossing the extras but I have to admit that it makes the process so much more enjoyable to have options.  |
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Post by freeatlast on Sept 15, 2015 21:21:07 GMT
You seem well organized. I think that's half the battle!
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Post by abr79 on Sept 15, 2015 21:27:09 GMT
That sounds like a great idea! I have been very slowly plugging away on an album I"m trying to finish from 1996 when I went to Greece. All the photos are already printed (and since photos were taken on a 35mm, I only have negatives) and it is such. a. chore. to go through them figure out which ones I want to include (because I took a lot of photos...in the hundreds which is high for 35mm times) and go best with the story I'm wanting to tell at the time. I'm almost tempted to get the negatives transferred into jpeg so I can just do it all in the PL app.
Good luck!
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Post by bethquiroz on Sept 15, 2015 21:34:29 GMT
OK - so I have to admit that when I saw "holiday album" in your title, I immediately thought this thread would be about December Daily! LOL! Gotta love cultural differences in word use!  |
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Post by rune2484 on Sept 15, 2015 22:01:07 GMT
Best of luck! It sounds like you are quite well organized  I hope you will show off your layouts when completed The only holiday/vacation album I've managed to get to the point I can show off (not quiiite done - I still have some journaling and titles to finish) was with Shimelle's Perfect Collection. It was actually a fun process - now I am wondering why I haven't tackled any other trips... |
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craftykitten
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Post by craftykitten on Sept 15, 2015 22:45:58 GMT
OK - so I have to admit that when I saw "holiday album" in your title, I immediately thought this thread would be about December Daily! LOL! Gotta love cultural differences in word use! Oh yes! Sorry, I didn't think of that. I know it's only 100 days till Christmas but I am not quite that organised :lol: |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 15, 2015 23:41:38 GMT
yes, let us know how it goes for you! And I'm super impressed that you're already working on it!
I'm still planning the album from the Hawaiian vacation we took in the summer of 2014. (I think I probably have about 2000 photos, as well.) So far I have a written outline put together, to make sure I have all the events / places listed that I want to include in the album, but that's as far as I've gotten.
(oh, wait-- I've been flipping through the Scrapbook Generation Travel sketch book and just looking at sketches; does that count as preparation?? lol!)
I know I'm going to make a 12x12 trip album with bigger layouts / more picturesque photos, but I'm also going to make a mini-album for including some of the more 'random' type photos and memories. I haven't started working out the individual 12x12 layouts yet, but I might do something similar to what you said about planning them out ahead of time so the entire album 'flows' together without any blank pages, and also to make sure that everything I want gets included.
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Post by elsiej on Sept 16, 2015 0:55:15 GMT
It sounds like you have a great plan! I bet you will be so proud of it when it's done!!!
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Post by 950nancy on Sept 16, 2015 3:14:06 GMT
I am painfully organized when it comes to vacation albums. By the time I am ready to scrap a page, each layout has its own bag with specific paper, sketch, pictures and embellishments. The day to day stuff not so much.
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Post by caangel on Sept 16, 2015 3:59:02 GMT
I'm a planner so for all My scrapping I print a contact sheet of the photos (on regular paper) make notes about cropping, journaling, papers, the LO, memorabilia, etc. I do this for several LO at one time. It works very nicely for vacations. I usually break up my digital photos into folders by day/event or theme depending on how the album us structured and then work through a folder at a time. This process really helps me to cull photos before scrapping too.
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Post by saralovesducks on Sept 16, 2015 15:06:22 GMT
Good luck!! I have my trips to Rome, London (two of these), Madrid, Bilbao, Galicia aaaaand a road trip to document. I'm a little freaked out by the prospect LOL You are so organized it makes me a bit jealous It's the inspiration I needed to get cracking and just start. Lightroom, here I come! |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 16, 2015 15:55:30 GMT
I'm a planner so for all My scrapping I print a contact sheet of the photos (on regular paper) make notes about cropping, journaling, papers, the LO, memorabilia, etc. I do this for several LO at one time. It works very nicely for vacations. I usually break up my digital photos into folders by day/event or theme depending on how the album us structured and then work through a folder at a time. This process really helps me to cull photos before scrapping too.I really should try something like this... I am more of a 'pick some photos and just start' type of scrapper, but that usually means I print a lot of extra photos, and don't necessarily have the size/shape of photo I need for the layout or sketch I end up using. I really should try being more organized for the vacation album, and see if I can transition that to making myself a bit more efficient for scrapping in general. (especially since I print most of my pics at home with my Selphy printer, and that's not exactly cheap, if I end up tossing them or needing to reprint.) |
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Post by caangel on Sept 16, 2015 21:16:07 GMT
Here is what one looks like.  This is a pretty simple LO. I use Picassa to organize my photos and there is a contact sheet option. Each sheet gets it's own (old) page protector that I use to hold the papers and embellishments or anything else. I don't print until I know what size I need the photos to be. I use PSE OR Picassa to crop and print photos to the exact size and trim as needed. I send all my photos out to costco. I make up several of these at one time. I pick a sketch or LO to copy for every LO to help me scrap faster. I'd rather spend the time playing with paper than coming up with a page design. Once I have several kits I can scrap fairly fast. Works pretty well for me. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 16, 2015 23:10:51 GMT
thanks for posting an example, caangel! I also use Picasa for my photos (have PSE 10? but I'm scared of it, lol!) and I never knew Picasa even had a contact sheet option...  I for sure am going to try this and see if it helps me out! I also find that using sketches is a good way to help me scrap quicker, too, but only sometimes. Sometimes I feel 'creative' enough to just start shuffling things around and see what happens. (but not very often, lol!) I'd rather just choose the papers and embellishments, usually. |
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Post by caangel on Sept 16, 2015 23:43:10 GMT
thanks for posting an example, caangel! I also use Picasa for my photos (have PSE 10? but I'm scared of it, lol!) and I never knew Picasa even had a contact sheet option... I for sure am going to try this and see if it helps me out! I also find that using sketches is a good way to help me scrap quicker, too, but only sometimes. Sometimes I feel 'creative' enough to just start shuffling things around and see what happens. (but not very often, lol!) I'd rather just choose the papers and embellishments, usually. The contact sheet option is not in an obvious place. I think the short cut is control, shift, P on a PC. But I'm not at my computer to check. |
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Post by megs78 on Sept 17, 2015 0:57:58 GMT
For the single holiday album I've managed to finish, I did something similar using a PL mini-album. I typed up all the journalling on a digi template of the 3x4 card and printed it out, which worked out well - I would never have managed to get it all written otherwise.
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I hope you will show off your layouts when completed
