![]() ![]() a Free 20-page Classic photo book (that’s the size I make) (And as long as MyPublisher ships to your country, you can enter.) Good, because five of you are going to win a free one! ![]() With Super Gloss, the colors are better, the print quality is better, and the pages are thicker and stronger. I’ve mentioned this in previous posts, but Super Gloss printing is so, so, so much better than the matte option. I really love the look of this when I want to add text to a page. You can add text boxes anywhere on a page, and usually the My Publisher templates suggest putting text in between or under photos.īut if you have a photo with some empty space, feel free to put a text box right on the photo, like so: I’d fill every book with them if I wasn’t trying to stay within the 20 pages that come with a daily deal! 6. MYPUBLISHER COUPONS FULLThis sometimes requires cropping photos to be vertical instead of horizontal so that they fit in the layout, but results look much more professional.Īlso, a full page photo every now and then is better than page after page of many small photos.įull page photos are my favorite. Fill the PageĪs I’ve experimented with different photo layouts, I’ve discovered that my pages usually look better if they’re mostly pictures and not much white space. Plus, patterns have a tendency to look pretty dated in short order, so I say stick with the solids. My Publisher has some patterned backgrounds, but to be honest, most of them scream 1995 scrapbooking to me. So now I usually select a neutral gray background for most of my pages. When I made my first book, I didn’t realize that you could have something other than a white background. Choose Neutral, Non-White Background Colors Oh well.Īt least you can learn from my mistakes! 4. I’m kind of annoyed with myself for not doing this right away. When I first started using photo covers, I centered my spine text.īut more recently I realized that putting the year on one end and the month on the other end would make it far easier to organize the books. (Do you like how I put “Disney 2014”? As though we’ve gone more than 0 other times. (I downloaded a free Disney font for that cover.) Sometimes, though, I still choose to put the text into an empty spot in the photo, like in the Disney book below. I then import the picture to My Publisher and use it as my cover. I just open a photo, choose a geometric overlay and add text on top of the overlay. (PicMonkey does have a subscription for premium features, but the features you need to make a cover like this are all free.) MYPUBLISHER COUPONS SOFTWAREI used to use Picasa, a free software from Google, but now I use PicMonkey, a web-based editing software that offers many more options. To make one like the book on the left, though, you’ll need to use some other photo editing software. MyPublisher does offer a text tool in their software, which you can use to make a cover like the Myrtle Beach one below. There’s also a book jacket option, but in terms of durability, I don’t think that could possibly compete with the photo finish option.Īnd I am all about durability. (So much easier to organize the books this way!) The large front and back photos are great, as is the wipeable surface and the fact that you can label the spine. Of late, the Living Social and Groupon deals from MyPublisher have been including a photo finish cover, and once I tried that, I never looked back. So if you have a bunch of these on your bookshelf, it’ll be hard to pull out the book you want unless you choose different colors for every book. Perhaps the biggest downside, though, is that there’s no marking on the spine. These are ok, but they have a couple of downsides.įirst off, they’re not super wipeable, and if you choose the black fabric, it does tend to show if you get a little something wet or dirty on it.Īlso, the photo on the front is fairly small. My first few books have the basic linen cover with a small photo in the front. So, before we get to the giveaway, I thought I’d share a few tips that can make your photo books more beautiful. I’ve made 14 MyPublisher books now (all with deals from Living Social and Groupon!), and I’ve learned a few things along the way. So of course, I said yes because I dearly love to work with companies I’ve faithfully patronized. □ )Īnyway, I’ve shared about my photo books several times before, and recently, MyPublisher contacted me to see if I’d be interested in working with them and also giving away some photo books to you guys. I’m thinkin’ there might be a bit more than a correlation between the two. (I used to be a faithful scrapbooker, but somewhere around the time I started blogging, scrapbooking began to take a back seat. ![]() I’ve been staying caught up on recent photos and also working backwards to get caught up. As you all already know, for the last two years, I’ve been busily churning out MyPublisher photo books. ![]()
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