Free Photobook(worth £29.99)+ P&P £3.99

JustaNewbie_2

Oh actually, you can move around your photos and resize the boxes too. Strange that, I made a Classic Photobox recently and the feature wasn't available then.

mich_city

JustaNewbie wrote: »

How can you delete and resize the templates? You can delete and resize your pictures within the templates but not any of the picture or text boxes can you?

just clicked on the empty template and deleted them if I didnt want to use them.. when you put your own photo on the page you can then move it and size it to what you want to fit the photo chosen..

full page photos I made a bit smaller to give a border around them, felt it looked better.. mine was holiday pics so used one of the travel backgrounds which suited well

the text boxes you add aren't great tbh.. can only use one line so had to put a couple under each other on some pages that I used a portrait sized photo and didnt have room for a long line of text.. the template ones you could add more but often didnt have them on a page I wanted... (hope that makes sense)

grintricha

thanks OP these products for that price (P+P) are the best thing i've had from this forum, the products are brilliant, and after creating an A-Z book of photos of two year old daughter I am now getting double loyalty points from OH

Richard

skibster

JustaNewbie wrote: »

How can you delete and resize the templates? You can delete and resize your pictures within the templates but not any of the picture or text boxes can you?

You can delete picture boxes or resize them (to a degree), but you can't draw a whole new picture box (I tried in vain!). What you can do is play with changing the layout options. For instance, if I wanted 3 pictures of a certain size and shape but they didn't have a layout that matched my needs, I might go to the bottom and click on the "layouts" tab, and find one for four pictures that was kinda what I wanted, then delete one of the picture boxes and resize one of the others to make it the size I wanted it to be and maybe just leave the other two as they were if they fit in my plan. If that makes sense.

If I recall, when you click on a picture box and get a menu one of the options is delete. Play with it and you will see that option. If there is a picture in the box, it will delete the picture first, then you click on the box again and tell it to delete and it will delete the actual box.

ali-t

It has taken me nearly 2 hours to make one of these books, don't be fooled when the instructions tell you it takes 30 mins! I changed the colour of the pages of the books, the layout of the pages and had to change the text colour after doing this but it took ages as the pages are quite slow to load.

jemclajess

ali-t wrote: »

It has taken me nearly 2 hours to make one of these books, don't be fooled when the instructions tell you it takes 30 mins! I changed the colour of the pages of the books, the layout of the pages and had to change the text colour after doing this but it took ages as the pages are quite slow to load.

Well I spent 4 hours last night trying to make the best album I could with some photos going back almost 40 years to make this for a gift for my sisters 40th on the 17th and it kept coming up with save book and I clicked cancel every time so I could get on with it... I was almost finished and the page froze and I lost everything:mad: I was kicking myself that I didn't save it so just a word of warning if you have a slow laptop like mine....
Now I'm starting again but just wanted to ask if when you put your photo in the box and it sometimes has a green smiley face good quality photo come up but sometimes (because of the size and age of some of my photos) it will be a red poor quality one (which I resize) or just an orange average quality one do the average quality ones still turn out okay? Ideally I would like all good quality photos but this has proved really hard with some of my photos... Also I don't want to use the same background on all my pages because they have different themes so does this look ok when it's all put together or does it look a bit mish mash?
Sorry for all the questions - I just need to get it finished today in case it doesn't arrive in time!!
Many thanks in advance...

skibster

jemclajess wrote: »

Well I spent 4 hours last night trying to make the best album I could with some photos going back almost 40 years to make this for a gift for my sisters 40th on the 17th and it kept coming up with save book and I clicked cancel every time so I could get on with it... I was almost finished and the page froze and I lost everything:mad: I was kicking myself that I didn't save it so just a word of warning if you have a slow laptop like mine....
Now I'm starting again but just wanted to ask if when you put your photo in the box and it sometimes has a green smiley face good quality photo come up but sometimes (because of the size and age of some of my photos) it will be a red poor quality one (which I resize) or just an orange average quality one do the average quality ones still turn out okay? Ideally I would like all good quality photos but this has proved really hard with some of my photos... Also I don't want to use the same background on all my pages because they have different themes so does this look ok when it's all put together or does it look a bit mish mash?
Sorry for all the questions - I just need to get it finished today in case it doesn't arrive in time!!
Many thanks in advance...

I used a lot of old (some over 100 years) or low-quality photos in one of my photobooks, and they came out pretty good. Ideally, don't make a low-res photo a whole page. Save often, and from early on in the process so that you can see that it is in fact saving properly! To be safe I would save early, leave the book, then go back to "modify" it in the basket just to make sure it saved! And if you put any text or captions, double check all of that before you check out, you'd hate to have a misspelled word or the wrong name under a photo.

I didn't do anything too wild with backgrounds -- if I used a color background on one page, the facing page was white. I only used a few pages with designs on the background, and I only used light, non-obtrusive designs as I did not want them to overwhelm the photos. If you are using any busy, bold backgrounds, you might want to use plain white on the facing page to avoid clashing, or else use the same background on both pages. It looks fine having different backgrounds throughout the book, you just need to think about it in terms of those two-page sections and you'll be fine.

susancs

If they are low quality photos I have found that it is better to use the smaller sized photo page templates (i.e. 4 to a page), as found if they are bigger they can be poorer quality.

ih8stress

I would agree that the larger sized photos can be poor quality. Mine came out looking grainy and not very sharp, though to be fair they are mainly 30 year old photos that have been scanned. Also I didn't realise that you could alter the quantity of photos per page, and just inserted the photos as the album was set out.

I had made certain that the green smiley 'good quality photo' appeared for each one as well, so this may be a little misleading.

I would definitely stick to smaller photos, with about 4 on a page in future.

HTH

jollymummy

My niece got married last weekend and I've made an album for her. Thanks so much OP, she'll love it.