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|As you all already know, for the last two years, I've been busily churning out MyPublisher photo books. I've been staying caught up on recent photos and also working backwards to get caught up.
(I used to be a faithful scrapbooker, but somewhere around the time I started blogging, scrapbooking began to take a back seat. I'm thinkin' there might be a bit more than a correlation between the two. )
Anyway, 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.
So of course, I said yes because I dearly love to work with companies I've faithfully patronized.
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, before we get to the giveaway, I thought I'd share a few tips that can make your photo books more beautiful.
1. Choose Photo Finish Covers
My first few books have the basic linen cover with a small photo in the front. These are ok, but they have a couple of downsides.
First 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.
Also, the photo on the front is fairly small. Perhaps the biggest downside, though, is that there's no marking on the spine. 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.
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.
The large front and back photos are great, as is the wipeable surface and the fact that you can label the spine.
(So much easier to organize the books this way!)
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.
And I am all about durability.
2. Make Your Own Cover Labels
MyPublisher does offer a text tool in their software, which you can use to make a cover like the Myrtle Beach one below.
To make one like the book on the left, though, you'll need to use some other photo editing software.
I used to use Picasa, a free software from Google, but now I use PicMonkey, a web-based editing software that offers many more options.
(PicMonkey does have a subscription for premium features, but the features you need to make a cover like this are all free.)
I just open a photo, choose a geometric overlay and add text on top of the overlay. I then import the picture to My Publisher and use it as my cover.
Sometimes, though, I still choose to put the text into an empty spot in the photo, like in the Disney book below.
(I downloaded a free Disney font for that cover.)
(Do you like how I put "Disney 2014"? As though we've gone more than 0 other times. Ha.)
3. Don't Center Spine Text
When I first started using photo covers, I centered my spine text.
For some reason that made sense to me.
But 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.
I'm kind of annoyed with myself for not doing this right away. Oh well.
At least you can learn from my mistakes!
4. Choose Neutral, Non-White Background Colors
When I made my first book, I didn't realize that you could have something other than a white background.
White's ok, but it's pretty boring. So now I usually select a neutral gray background for most of my pages.
My Publisher has some patterned backgrounds, but to be honest, most of them scream 1995 scrapbooking to me.
Plus, patterns have a tendency to look pretty dated in short order, so I say stick with the solids.
Your future self will thank you.
5. Fill the Page
As 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.
This sometimes requires cropping photos to be vertical instead of horizontal so that they fit in the layout, but results look much more professional.
Also, a full page photo every now and then is better than page after page of many small photos.
Full page photos are my favorite. 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. Put text on photos
You can add text boxes anywhere on a page, and usually the My Publisher templates suggest putting text in between or under photos.
But if you have a photo with some empty space, feel free to put a text box right on the photo, like so:
I really love the look of this when I want to add text to a page.
7. Choose Super Gloss Printing
I've mentioned this in previous posts, but Super Gloss printing is so, so, so much better than the matte option. With Super Gloss, the colors are better, the print quality is better, and the pages are thicker and stronger.
The Giveaway
Are you inspired to make a book??
Good, because five of you are going to win a free one!
(And as long as MyPublisher ships to your country, you can enter.)
You'll get:
-a Free 20-page Classic photo book (that's the size I make)
That's a $56.98 value, so this is pretty stinking awesome.
To enter, leave a comment telling me what photos you'll put into your My Publisher book.
The giveaway will close on Sunday, October 5th, so get your entry in now!
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Void where prohibited. Chances of winning depend upon the number of entrants. Winner will be randomly chosen at close of giveaway. The giveaway will close on Sunday, October 5th, at 11:59 PM EST. This post is sponsored by MyPublisher. All opinions, text, and photos are my own. All of my own MyPublisher books have been purchased by me.
I want to try and make a book for our granddaughters with pictures from a vacation we had in June at our cabin – I think they will love having a permanent record of our time together!
Hi Kristen
I have just read your fantastic blog on My Publisher. I understand they are closing down on 8 May 2017. My friend and I have produced 2 photobooks and now we want to print extra copies of one of the projects making just a few changes. We want to take advantage of the special they have going at the moment e.g 40% off. I can't find anywhere where a project that has been completed and printed can be upload and edited to be reused. Other programs I have used you can do this but it looks like My Publisher doesn't have that option. Would you have any suggestions other than doing the book again.
Thanks heaps!
MyPublisher is shutting down! Any advice on how to save the work to be able to print more copies in the future? I've worked too hard to lose all my work! They will provide a digital copy but I don't know how I'll be able to print it in the future. Any advice on how to save my work now so that I can print it in the future with other software???
I love My Publisher photo books! I lost count of the books I have created with them. Thanks for your tip on the glossy prints.
FANTASTIC advice! My wife has been an art teacher for 21 years and has 2nd grade this year. I am a photographer so I would use the book by taking photographs all year of her students working on art projects as well as the District art show. I think she would love the chronological record as well as the memories it would carry of each student. Keep up the great work!
You mentioned downloading a free font from Disney for use in one of your MyPublisher.com photo books. Did you have any trouble with MyPublisher not wanting to print your book with a font that is not included in the rather limited list of fonts in the photo book software?
Hi, just started reading your blog and it's beautifully written! Thanks for all the tips!
I go to work in the mornings and my one year old stays with my mother-in-law which is his grandma. She has been amazing and I want to make a recipe book for her filled with our family favorite recipes because she collects cookbooks. I want her to know she is appreciated for all her help and love!
I usually use grey, black or white backgrounds, but I'm getting a bit bored with those colors. I noticed the offer about 100 different colors in the 4 drop downs in MyPublisher "Backgrounds" such as Websafe/Crayons/Developer/Apple. Have you played with any of these or have any advice on understanding these different categories of colors? My next project is a Before & After of House Remodeling/Decorating….
If i win the photo album. I will put pictures of my Granddaughter and our family since her birth and she is now 7.
Thank you
Can you give more information about how you used the Disney font in MyPublisher? I would like to use a font that is unavailable in MyPublisher, and I can't figure out how to do it. Thanks
Thank you for this timely post! I am going to get serious about keeping up with my family pictures! But first I have to keep play a little catch up. Just from 2012, so hopefully it won't be too bad! The main subjects of my books will be of my adorable babies. Your advice is awesome!
Just a question. Since you are an Aldi fan, have you ever considered using their photo book service? I've never made a book, but am getting ready to do my first one. Any suggestions besides what's here? Do you have any idea the difference between My Publisher and what Aldi offers? Thanks!
Just had a family reunion for my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. A photo book of the event would make a great Christmas present for them!
Wow, this might be a good excuse to delve into the world of scrapping.
I'd love to make a book for my mom of this year's family photos.
My daughters baby pictures:)
I'd make a book full of pictures from my son's first year.
Sorry i clicked submit by mistake and didn't answer your question. If I win I will make a baby album for my youngest who just turned 2.
Love all your tips and pictures! I just started taking part of monthly photo challenges that have been motivating me to photograph my own family more. I would love to create albums with these images!
These are great tips, thanks!
We recently traveled to Iceland as a bucket list item for my husband who has cancer. It was AWESOME! I make a photo book for our family every year for Christmas that details our family trips and this was going to be for Christmas 2014. I normally use Shutterfly for my personal books. I am more than willing to try out a new vendor when it is free!
I love reading your blog! Thanks for your inspiration.
p.s. normally we travel to national parks for our family vacations and do a combo camp/hotel for lodgings. We have a family goal of visiting every national park. It's a big one, considering the distance we will have to travel to each one, but well worth it. The national park system is amazing and details such varied places in our country. Our park system can accommodate all types of travel budgets, from the very frugal (camping at $20ish a night) to deluxe (staying at the famous lodges and dining out, upwards from $200 a day). I wholeheartedly recommend it!!
Thank you Kristen for all the ideas. We are way
Behind. We would do some catching up on the family.
great tips! I'll probably follow your lead and do a book of most recent pics and work my way back.
I'd love a book! I'm so far behind with photos my kids will be in college before I'll have time to catch up
I would love to make a book on my families last cruise.
The last book I made was of my wedding and I made many of the mistakes you mentioned. My son just turned two so I have some catching up to do! My book would be the story of his first year.
I would love take all of my photos in random albums and make digital books.
Family from the summer, thank you Kristen
I would put pictures of my boys at their sports and scouts events. I haven't picked up my scrapbooking tools in years. I've outgrown them, just like you! I love the look of photo books!
First year of my grandbaby's life!
I already have an idea for a photo book. I'd put photos of my sister and myself.Thanks!
I am so behind on my photos but I would pictures of my dogs in the book…because they are my kids
I've made one photobook in shutterfly, but the software isn't user friendly and I would like to have alot more options available! I'd love to learn about MyPublisher. I also love the large pictures, but have found, if you have alot of pictures to put in that one album, you can put a lot more than they suggest on a page and it still looks fabulous! also…on another note, the only photo book I made was for my daughter's first year (which ofcourse, i only made last year and she now is 6!). Since I had kept a journal of her schedule, firsts, sweet stories, etc, I added those to the last two pages in two large text boxes so now I have all of her first year memories together…pictures and lots from the journal.
Love your blog. Thanks!
With a box full of MY kids from 33 years ago and forward, safer to start with pictures of grandkids. Finally have a head-start by uploading their pictures into folders on the computer, grouped by families. Still a lot of work…. Barb
Lots of family pictures!
I'd put in the photos of our recent trip to Nova Scotia, which include when my daughter got her puppy. I love those photos.
If I won I would start with all of the baby pictures of my daughters!
Wow. They are lovely. I'm inspired! I have lots of stories to tell through pictures of our kids and the journey God has us on – from surgery on vacation to celebrating His presence every day at home.
Oooh! I would love to make a book of special memories shared between my 89 year old mom and our three girls. She will not be around forever and they love to remember special moments with her.
20 pages of my daughter's 1st year of life… or just 0-3 months. I do have a lot of pictures of her.
Frugal Girl
Thank you thank you for your helpful blog! I had posted today my fb friends to ask them what company they used for digital photo books and why. Mia B. led me to you. Yay! Your candidness of your mistakes and great insight on how to make them better was a gold mine. seriously! This summer my first grandbaby was born to my #1 daughter and my #2 daughter was married 4 weeks later. Now that fall has set in I can take the time to make those 2 important albums. Granddaughter and wedding.
Thanks much
I would make a book of my daughter's dance photos (yes, I'm a dance mom):).
I would like to make a book with the photos of my great grandchildren.
So far, I have 4 great granddaughters with another baby girl due this month
October, and one great grandson. I receive photos from the parents and
it would be good to have them in a book. Thank you…
I'd love to do a book of pics from our trips to Hawaii!
Love this!
We have a big family beach trip every year & I never get around to printing pics, let alone making a photo book. I'd make a pic showing all 20 of us, in the same house for the whole week!
I would use the book to document my recent trip to Europe with my daughter.
I love my publisher! I've made three books with them!
I'd put pictures of our trip to Italy. We flew for free on a military cargo plane!
I love my publisher! I've made three books with them!
It'll be my first photo book. I'll be putting pictures from my pregnancy to birth and after. I'll be due at the end of October so it'll be awesome if I win.
A first year album for my daughter!
Would love to give these photo books a try! Never done one before, and with my 4 kids(soon to be 5), I'm so far behind on photo albums!
Thanks! Love you blog:)
I would be putting pictures of my family, pets, friends and especially my two nieces in a photo book! I might even do one of my trips to NYC or Europe.
I love making Photo Books of my nieces and nephew and giving it to them for their birthday/Christmas. They get so excited to see a book featuring them! I originally used a different company, but once I tried My Publisher I could never go back! Such great quality and I love the Photo Finish covers!
I would make a book with pictures of me and my boyfriend from our first year of dating. He loves taking pictures and selfies when we are out, so this book would be PACKED. It would make a great anniversary gift (hint hint its coming up soon and I'm running out of ideas!).
i would love to make another book for free! I just did my first one last spring, and it was so much fun!
I would love to make a photo book of an upcoming family vacation.
Great giveaway!! I would start at the beginning of my now 2 1/2 year old boy's life. Photo books are such a great, simple
way to look back on all the memories. Thanks!!
Your book came out great! Thank you for doing a giveaway! I love reading your blog, so entertaining! It keeps me waiting for the next post!
I would use my son's first year with us pictures!
Thank you for the information. Photo books would be a great use for all the photos of my daughter (who is almost two). Plus, I could make multiple books to give to relatives.
I would fill the book with pictures of my two children growing up. They are 17 and 18 now and their father and I are recently divorced. It has been a terribly difficult year for all four of us. Oddly enough I would give the book to their father as a Christmas gift from them to remind him that not all of the 29 years were bad, 18 of them were pretty awesome.
ps. I love your blog.
Lily Gutierrez
I will make a book of pictures of my new grandson. He's a cutie–very photogenic!
I have never done this before so I would put all my kids and my family pictures including my wedding pictures.
I'd love to make a book with our photos from Ireland!
The grandkids do their "Life" presentation at school with drawings and photos; it's interesting what a 6 year old shows as her life experience! That would make a good book.
I would make a sports book with some photos from my sons high school sports~
I am celebrating my one year wedding anniversary this weekend. My grandpa walked me down the aisle and I would love to make a photo book of our wedding to share with my grandparents!
I'd love to try My Publisher! I would make a photo book with pictures of the newest addition to our family…our 7 week old daughter thanks.
We are planning a trip thru Texas small towns to finish at Dinosaur Valley. I would love to make a book full of the memories!
Wedding album!!! I got married 3 years ago and still have not done anything with our photos!
Thank you for your tips and posts. I would make the book for my friend and Sunday School teacher from 50 years ago. We had a 95th birthday party for her recently. My husband tried to make a book, but for some reason Apple could not do it. I saw where thefrugalgirl has had good success with My Publisher and have been wanting to try it. I have never done one before. Please pick me!
( I just typed this, but did not see it in the comments, so that is why I typed it again)
I would make one of photos of my mom, who died last winter, and send one to her brother who hadn't seen her since she moved to Alaska to leave with me 6 years previously.
I think I'll do a book of 2014 photos if I'm the winner. It's been a year of change for us – husband has retired, two kids in college and one a senior in high school, parents 60th wedding anniversary. I've taken more photos this year than the past several and I have enough to nicely fill a book like this. Also, I found your "do's and don'ts" really helpful. They're things I wouldn't have thought about before, but they make perfect sense.
I would love to try a MyPublisher book. I would like to make a book of the photos we have taken when we have been with my in-laws this year as a low-clutter gift for them for Christmas. With another company I have been able to make a book for my in-laws, save it, and then add more pages in for a book for our family with more photos from the rest of the year, which saves me a lot of time in putting ours together. They love to have photos of the grandkids and these books don't take much room at all on a shelf.
I was doing a great job of a book a year for my son, but have gotten behind. I would make a book for the most recent year (5) since those pictures are newer, better organized, and easier to put into some kind of order (since my memory is fresher on those). You book turned out great! I will have to keep my eyes peeled for a similiar groupon.
Would love to make one of these for each of my kids.
We would make a book for my friend who turned 95. She lives alone and was my Sunday school teacher 50 years ago. We had a birthday party for her. My husband worked hard to make a book, but for some reason, Apple said they could not do it. That was his first attempt. I keep reading about how The Frugal Girl prefers My Publisher and have wanted to try it. Love your tips and posts.
Please pick me!
I am commenting again because I am unsure if my first one posted… So sorry if I have two!
I only like to get photo books when I have a deal because of how much time it takes! I have yet to do any baby albums of my two little girls (one is 2 and the other 8 months) And I would definitely use the my publisher books for my girls!
I also love all the tips! Online photobook definitely take scrapbooking to a different level!
I'd fill this book with our new baby girl! We have books for our other kids, so we'd love to make one for her. Thanks for the chance!
I would either do my 7 month old or 3 year old pictures in.
I'd put pictures of my kids as babies in there. They're all grown up now–the youngest is 16. I miss my babies! Or maybe my soon-to-be-bor first grandchild, if the giveaway could wait till March!
I'd love to try My Publisher. I've been using Shutterfly, but it seems like their quality has gone way down lately.
I would love to make a photo book for my Mum with pictures of her side of the family, especially with pictures
of my grandma since we lost her to cancer.
Great tips!!
Thank you for the give away! We just had our third baby (first boy) and would love to make a picture book of our growing family!
Love your books! I have always had the intention to scrapbook, but it really isn't my style. I bought tons of supplies in green and blue, stickers, the works. And carried it all around for almost 5 years, and never got started.
This is a much better way to finally print the pictures I have of my sons (now almost 5 and almost 3).
Thank you for such a great giveaway! I would put the 1st year of baby pics into an album- they are all digital right now and I don't want to loose them in the coming years!
First time commenter! I love your website and this deal! I would make a book of our wedding pictures. It's been two years, we have great pictures but none are in frames or even printed!
I have a bunch of pictures of my nieces. This would be great !
I would love to make baby books for each of my three children. Thanks!
My kids but since they are now 14 and 12 I have to remember to pull out the camera more often.
I'm so happy this giveaway is not closed I thought I had missed it.
You have inspired me to begin my Photo Book journey, and like you I think I will start with most recent and work my way back. Only 6 years and thousands of photos to sort through…..eeak.
I'd put in photos from a recent trip to our home state of Maine. We're a military family serving back-to-back overseas tours and we had not been in the U.S. for 2 years. We had a wonderful time visiting with our family there. Lots of photos were taken!
Feeling inspired to getting back to making my photobooks!
We've done several Blurb books, but these look fantastic as well! And I need to make many, many more right now…
I'd use the photo book for my second son's Senior year in High School
I have hundreds and hundreds of photos that I'm slowly printing or making into books. Thanks for all the tips!
I will but my kids first year photos in mine. I have not started their photo books yet and I have a just born through two year pics for my daughter with a bear to show how she's grown.
I want to do books for my grandchildren of the things we have done together. I have some pictures that I need more copies of so more than one great kid gets it. I have been very afraid to try a published book but I need to do something for 13 grandchildren-this might be my key to getting 'er done.
I make a Photo books every year with family memories! Easy to store and organize! Thanks for the tip on spine labeling!
Thank you for the great information! I would love to put together a photo book for my family! I have done "plain" photo albums, as well as archival-safe scrapbooking. Like you, I do not prefer printed background papers. Love your style! I think my first project would be a memory book of my amazing dad, who brightened the lives of everyone he met. I have a "ton" of happy pictures of him that need to go in a special book!
I'll do family photos! Mostly ones of my kiddos since I have four, like u!!!!
Our photos this summer from several caves we visited. It was the kids' first visit to a cave.
Your books look good!
I would make a photo book of my kids' summer activities. Thank you for all the tips!
My family!
I love photos! The older I get I value time spent with family (older family) at such a deeper level! I would make a book of 2014 family reunion photos.
I'd make a book with my oldest child's baby photos up to age 1. He's 5 now and I still haven't managed to organize photos from when he was a baby!
Love these books and tips!
***Would love to win one of these adorable photo books! Would be great motivation to get some family photos organized!
My dad just passed this June so I'd love to put together a book to show his love of flying and use all the old photo's I've found. Than the original photos' won't be damaged by showing to all the relatives.
Thanks for the opportunity.
My kids' baby pictures and books
Thank you for your tips and suggestions. What a great way to save and share memories. I think I would like to use this method to record our Family Reunions.
This is great! Love the offer and all the tips! I would fill the book with our recent trips to the pumpkin patch!
I would love a book to memorialize our daughter's recent wedding!! Would love full page pictures!!
I'll put my son's 8th grade graduation pictures in a book.
I use MyPublisher for our family's photo yearbooks. I would love to (finally) make our 2012 book!
Anything! I have done so little with pictures the last several years that putting together a book of any of our pictures would be a huge accomplishment.
I would use this for family photos. I have two teenagers very busy with sports and school activities.
I love photo books! I'm going to put our ordinary, nothing-exciting, real-life Spring 2014 photos in the My Publisher photo book when I win. Those pics need somewhere need to be more accessible than just on my iPhone.
We just had some sweet photos taken of our newborn daughter. I'll definitely be making a photo book of them!
I would probably put our past family photos along with our new shoot coming up this month. Nothing shows how much my girls have grown like seeing those photos in one place!
I'd do a photo book of our wedding pics….from 9 years ago! Or maybe a "baby book" for 1 of our 3 children…guess I have a bit of catching up to do!
Our twins are almost 4…I gotta start somewhere with all the pictures we have.
I would choose pictures of Madeleine, our 11 year old Great Dane who passed away in February.
Making photo books is one of my resolutions for 2014, and so far I have made exactly 0! *doh*
I would make my first one of my recent trip to Europe!
Thanks for the tips and examples. I've never used a photo book and would love to give it a try using pictures of my 6th and 11th hrade daughters.
Oh my gosh! I would have to say that I would fill it with my new grandchildren! My daughter married a very nice man with a 5 year old and 1 1/2 year old girls, and they are expecting their 3rd girl. I'm so excited to be a new grandma that I'm quilting up a storm. I'd love to do a photo book with them.
I have been married for nearly 8 years and have nothing with our wedding photos so I would make a wedding album. Thanks
I would be inspired to create a photo book for my 17 yr old son's First Day of School photos! I've taken them every year since his pre- school days, and since this year he started his senior year of high school that tradition will come to a happy closure. it would be a very nice momentous.
I would love to make a photo book from the snapshots we took when our second son was born this past February.
All of them!!! (I wish!)
I'd do a quick baby book for my daughter. I'm working on a longer one, but it would be nice to have one now with the first 7 months.
I really hope I win one. I am 7 months pregnant so I would make the book of my pregnancy and the babies birth.
I have been a photographer for 42 years. I am not a professional photographer but I am an excellent one. Being from Chicago I would make one either on old Chicago street photography or new Chicago. I have photos I have taken from the early 70s to the mid to late 80s. I could then make one using photos from the last 20 years. I would love to share that with you and your readers.
I would create a photo book of our family – me, hubby and our twin boys Caleb and Tristan who are 2.5 years. It will be a gift to our family who live far from us (in South Africa) and are always nagging me for more photo's of the boys!
p.s. thanks for the tips!
My family!
Most definitely, my book will contain photos from our incredible trip to England this past summer. I hadn't been out of the country (USA) in, literally, fifty years! I had the opportunity to accompany my professor/husband on a study trip this summer and we spent 3 weeks in England. North Yorkshire was unforgettable.
Oh, I've been waiting all summer for something like this. I've picked out our family's favorite photos from the past year, but am yet to commit to a photo book. So, yay… if I win!!!
Hunting season pictures for my husband.
Love the photo book ideas! Actually, this is my first time commenting on your blog, but I will be referring pretty soon to your excellent articles on a contented Christmas and holiday time management ideas that you wrote a couple years ago. I reread sometime in October. Thanks for an interesting blog!
If I win the photo book, I will probably start at the beginning of my marriage and the home where we had my first son. I now have three gorgeous kids and need to get caught up getting the photos in an accessible place to fully enjoy them.
Thanks for considering me!
I would do pictures from our trip to Michigan. It's one of the only trips we've ever taken just for fun, so that would be really awesome!
I'd make a beautiful book of photos from a trip to Nepal, including Mt. Everest. Thank you for this offer and the useful tips!
How exciting! You've given some great tips that have inspired me to get serious about finally organizing all our wonderful family photos in a beautiful way! Since our five daughters are now in their twenties, you can see that this is greatly needed. I LOVE the photo books for this project.
Photos of my grandson's first year!!
I'd try to catch up on birthday books! I've done books for each of my kids (all 2 of them!) for their birthdays. Important pictures from the year. They get this as a gift, and I hold on to them so they don't get ruined. They can look through them with me, but they don't go to their rooms. When they turn 18, they will get these books to take with them. I had a friend who scrapbooked this, but this idea to me was easier and actually cheaper than what she did, so I do this!
I would finally make a book of my son's first year!
I would use the book to catch up on my pictures
I have used My Publisher, and have liked it very
much, but I am anxious to try Kriisten's
suggestions on some of the things to upgrade.
Thanks for the tips and for sharing the give-away opportunity!
I have a ton of basketball pictures of my 12 year old son. . I would put them in a book for him. This is a great tutorial. I have been so gun shy about making these. Thanks for the "coaching".
I have recently begun to make yearly family photo books, so this would help me to accomplish that! I've got quite a few years to go back and make books for.
I'm leaving for a Mediterranean cruise next week and I was already planning on making a photo book to document my travels. A free one would make it even better!
I would love to win this! I've made a few different books from My Publisher! I was wondering what size do you stick with normally?
I'd put in photos of my daughter and use it as a Christmas gift to my parents.
I made a photo book a few years ago–I think it was 2011. I don't get the camera out very often (and my phone is a cheap one that takes small pictures, so not always good for a photo book). I had to make an effort to take enough photos that year to make a book. I'd love to win a free book–I'd fill it with pictures from 2012-2014.
Beautiful photos of our lurcher Jack who has now been with us a year and the horses I help lead at Riding for the Disabled. I would then give finished photo book to my lovely nieces and nephew who live in Belgium and are dog and horse MAD! but can't have any pets.
To answer your question would be complicated to say the least. I have a whole entire bin (80qt to be exact) of photos, as well as photos stored in a hard drive, that are in need of finding a better home than the one they reside in! I believe I would start with the most recent and work my way back. Our recent move and summer photos would be my first priority. I am hoping that once I discover how easy this is I can start setting realistic goals for myself in this area. I too, was an avid scrap booker, then the addition of more children to our family, work and now homeschooling, well that's how a bin of photos is created. Thanks for all your posts, our family has gleaned much from you!
Would love to put some of our favorite family photos of our children (now grown-up) when they were little , so they can have a book and show them to our grandchildren ~ ages 1, 4, and 7!
My daughter and son-in-law will soon be adopting! Since our family is spread all over the U.S. I'm making a family photo album so he/she will at least know our faces!
I work at a bakery. It would be wonderful to upgrade our wedding cake portfolio to a bound book rather than the loose leaf binder we are currently using.
I would put in photos from our recent vacation to South Dakota.
I would put pictures of my babies with the funny things they've said over the years.
It would be a treasure.
I have tons of pics of my 2 boys that I need to organize. This would be great to get me started!
OUR Disneyland 2014!
I love my publisher (and just ordered a book, too!). I would put pictures of my two girls in there, from the past year. They would love looking at the pictures, and I would too. Pick me! Pick me!
I'd put pictures of my four kids
I would put all the vacation photos that never get printed. thanks!
I would make a book of my sister's wedding photos for her.
So excited for this giveaway! I have a 4 month old and can't wait to make some photo books of the many pictures I've taken recently!
Never tried a photo book, but I've wanted to. I'd make a book of our family trip to Scotland!
I'm thinking of doing some of these books – I have a lot of family photos since my parents passed and have come across some of my parents, brother, and myself when we were little and I'd like to put these together in a book then later do other books with family.
A summer camping book
I would make a book of the photos I took when my family participated in the Run Up for Down Syndrome run/walk in June. We do this every year for our daughter Emme who has Down Syndrome. By the way, October is Down Syndrome awareness month!
I'd put the photos from our recent weekend vacation to Great Wolf Lodge! With 5 kids, this is a splurge for us, but we got some great pics! water slides, surfing, and a huge bucket that splashes water down. Great!
Love, love, love these tips! I want to win;). Have made 3 books so far and want to make more. Would like to make a book of my family enjoying Clemson football and tailgating together.
I will finally do a baby book for my almost 2 year old
I'm not sure which photos I'd choose. I don't have a fancy camera, but I have over 11,000 photos on my iPhone dating back to 2007…I'd say I need a photo book or 10!
I have been wanting to try out mypublisher for ages after reading about it online – the books look perfect for a first year baby book for my son.
My husband is in the military and so I would do a book of family photos for him to take away when he is on deployment, the photos he takes can get quite raggedy, he has been to Afghanistan twice and Iraq once in the last few years, so this would be a great option. X
My daughter is an avid photographer, loves to travel and is very frugal so I would give a free photo book to her so that she can document her next trip for us to enjoy!
These publisher books look really great! And seem to be a tig bit easier than putting your own photos in a photo album. I would probably put a collection of my favorite pictures I've taken since high school.
Couple of years ago, I inherited several boxes full of unlabeled, unorganized family photos. I've been working on scanning them, and would love to make a family histrory book, with some moments from the past century.
I traveled to France two years ago and I would love to have those photos in a book. Or I might do my husband and my dating years while I was in college. I am caught up in everything else.
A LOT OF THEM! Because I have 22 years of marriage and 18 of parenting I need to go back and put in books!
My husband takes stunning photos – I'd love to make a book for him like these!
My recent daughters birth
I would put pictures of our "end of the summer" weiner roast in my book>
I'd make one of my little monkeys They're 4 and 15months and everything is still digital – I would live to a
have something tangible and organized! My greatest fear is losing pictures of them- I sooo need to get my butt in gear ðŸ˜
The tips are great Kristen – thanks for sharing your wisdom.
I'd make a book of the awesome trip to Alaska and Washington state we took two summers ago.
I would love to try to make one of these! Thanks for this chance.
I would make a book of photos of my grandparents. I miss them and don't have many good pictures.
I'd make a book of our 52 (bike) rides in 52 weeks. Only 10 to go!
I would love to make a photobook of life as a family of four.
I've been wanting to make a wedding album for some time, but always thought it was a little on the expensive side…but having those pictures will be priceless! With these tips I'm sure to do it now!
Reading about your work on keeping up with your photos has motivated us to begin work on our massive photo "issue"!! I'd love to use the MyPublisher book to start making individual books for each of my kids, ages 5 and 6. I know they'd love to look through them, and I'd love to have all those fun memories at our fingertips.
Hi! I really wouldn't know where to start! I don't have ANY photos in a book-URG!
My 5 grandchildren will fill those pages very nicely. I love your suggestions for creating the book.
Hope I win.
I'd love to start making online photo books of our first baby girl!
I would put family photos in mine. I have two already, and would do what you are doing. Start going backwards to older photos thay need albums.
I would love to try this and put my son's 4th grade school activities. He's in 5th grade now and I have not done anything with those photos.
I want to make an album for my parents. Photos from when they got married, when they immigrated to the U.S., family vacations when we kids were growing up, weddings, grandchildren, etc!
I've done a Highlights of the Year for the last 8 years, and yeah, my first few ones are BAD. Someday I want to redo those. Right now though, I'd probably make a gift for my mother in law.
I would fill my first MyPublisher book with photos of my 3 children together smiling. My oldest just left for college and I really want to cherish the happy memories of them all together. Thanks for the tips!
Trip to the Philippines!
The books look amazing!!! What a wonderful idea to have something to go back to as the kids get older.
Thanks for the opportunity! I'd love to make a photo book of our upcoming road trip- 4 weeks, 2 toddlers, 3000km! Eek! Wish me luck
I'd like to make a book from my trip to Australia!
All. The. Photos. 😊
I started my daughter's baby book…..but she's 4 now and I never finished or continued after the first year. I need this!!!'
I would fill every square inch of the book with the pictures from my darling Mom's 80th birthday party, all the family, the beautiful weather, the delicious food and Mom's favorite lemon meringue pie!
I would love to make one of these showcasing our photos from our various hikes around Colorado!
I just got married (9/27) and would LOVE to send a photo book to my 87 year old grandmother!
I will fill my photo book with pictures of my son's 1st year. He is 14 months now and I would like to make a book for each year.
Well…my oldest is 8 and I hhave only the first 5 months of her life in printed pictures. Ithink I have a few pictures to put into books! :p
I would love to make a book of my baby's first year!
I am going to put every picture I have ever owned in these. Thanks for picking me. Much love, Marinell
After 2.5 years, we finally decided to get family photos taken with our kids so I would happily make a photo book with those pictures. I am in awe of the fact that you have done 14 in the same amount of time!
I do a photo book for each year of our marriage and just finished another one last month. But I'm a couple years behind, so I'd be working on the 2012-2013 photobook with this giveaway. I usually use MixBook (my fav!), but haven't tried MyPublisher.
Such helpful tips! Would love to try making one with our favorite photos of our daughter's first year!
Pictures of my 2 beautiful children.
Thanks, Kristen, for the tips and the giveaway! I've been photographing my son's artwork and projects from school, and am hoping to get the best of those into a photo book as a way to remember his school year.
I would start a book of this year's photos. I've done a few of these but have many many years to catch up on. I love the look of your books and appreciate the tips!
I would put all my pictures from 2007 through now. I've been looking at MyPublisher but just need to make the time to actually upload the pictures and organize.
Pictures from this summer =)
Would like to make a book of a special trip to Napa valley, San Francisco and the Pacific coast. My husband and I just got both boys through college and we wanted to celebrate with a special trip. It couldn't have been better. We went to China town, Ghiardelli square, the Golden Gate bridge, Napa valley wineries (I have a cousin who works there) and hiked in a redwood forest, Armstrong Woods. We spent a night in a cabin on the way to the pacific ocean. We ate dinner at Jenner by the bay overlooking the Pacific, based on a tip from the lady we rented our cabin from. Truly a delightful trip to celebrate our boys and our 26 year marriage.
I would make a book of our recent family vacation to CA. We came home with 1500 photos so this would be a good reason to sort through them all.
I would make a book for my daughter of her horse show. She earned privilege of riding in dressage regionals and it's Carolyn bunch photography in Mason City Iowa region 4 for the show
2014 photos of my 3 year old daughter.
Oh Kristen, the list is so long of photos I would put in a book! I have been extremely bad at keeping up with photos! Although we do look at them on the computer a lot!
I will put my summer vacation pictures in this book!😊
ohmygoodness, I have got to get better about creating photo books to capture my family's special moments. since having my twins two-and-a-half years ago, I have not managed to make a single book for myself (made two for their grandmothers), and I have only printed a hand full of pictures (despite taking many). winning this might give me the kick I need to get started on my own library!
I would like to make a photo book of all of the photos of my cottage garden this past summer, especially since our family celebrated my Mom's 80th birthday party in the cottage garden !
Similarly I gave up scrapping awhile back and have great guilt of not preserving our memories better. I'd use this to start doing one book for each year going back to 2010.
Thanks for the tips. I would like to do a day in my life book, for my Dad who lives 800 miles away.
I would love to make one of these with our wedding photos! The ones from the photographer are crazy expensive and we just want something our friends & family can flip through (without feeling like they need to wear gloves!).
Would so love this. I have never made a photo book and have been wanting to give it a try.
I would love to fill a photo book with pictures of my grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
I would like to make a family yearbook type of photo album so I would use photos from last year!
Pictures of our summer!
I want to make a photo book for my mom – she went to South Africa last year!
I had been thinking about doing this with our photos from a trip to Puerta Vallarta last month. I'd love to win and then I'll for sure use MyPublisher!
I have so many photos I am not sure where to start! I think I will start with this summer's vacation.
I don't have any pictures of any of my 6 children in photo albums of any kind yet. Yes, I'm a bad mom. However, I think I would like to make a book for my in-laws with a page for each of their (13) children (and their families). . . with some of family get-togethers for the extra pages. Their children and grandchildren might be scattered, but it's so important to them.
My friend recently had her first baby girl! I would like to make a book for her including photos taken from the baby shower, hospital and home shots.
My friend recently had her first baby girl! I would make a photograph book for her including photos taken from her baby shower, hospital and home shots.
Thanks for the tips! I would put photos of my little one.
I would love to to a book of all of my kids' halloween pictures from the first's baby picture until now! They love to look at the previous years' costumes. Thanks for the opportunity!
I would probably put photos from this past summer in a photo book; there are lots of good ones to choose from.
I have twin grandchildren who are now 8 years old, a boy and a girl. I did a scrapbook of their first year. They were premature and our little grandson had a couple of surgeries the first year. Well, because we were so busy, we all got behind on many things, but not taking pictures. We need to get caught up and this will be a great incentive.
I would like to use photos from this past year, when my oldest daughter graduated high school and moved to college. I really want to mark this time in our lives! Thanks!
I would like to do a book for my husband and I. Being 12,000 miles apart, and then finally united, and 5 children later, I do not have a photo book for us, even though I am working on a scrapbook (not digital) for our children. I have been debating on going digital for a photobook, and this would be a good opportunity to do it!
All of my 2014 gardening and canning pictures!
I'd make a scrapbook with my London pictures. I haven't organized these yet and it's past time.
I would love to create a book from our summer vacation.
I am about five years behind so I guess I would start there! I have only done shutterfly but these books look like they have tons more options. I think I just need some motivation to get going again!
My daughters year 1-2. That way I'll have one kid up to date!
I have so many to do I'd have to start with this past summer and work my way back. Cottage, camping trips, baseball and soccer games.
My family :)!
We ran our first marathon in Disney world earlier this year and took tons of pictures! I would love to make a book full of those pictures. Thanks for all the tips!
I would put photos of grandparents with their grandchildren over the years.
I would put pictures from a trip my granddaughter and I shared to London, Paris, Rome and Capri about 9 years ago.
I'm not sure where I would start. I have boxes of pictures just sitting around!
Ooh this looks fun! I would make a book of beach vacation photos.
I would put in the pictures from my trip to Japan with my mother (visiting her family in 2005!), and give it to her as a birthday gift later this month. I think it would be a great gift for someone who never asks for anything.
Oooh gosh! I would love to make a book for my dog Jasper. Because I'm awesome He came from a rescue, and he's four years old. But before the gal at the rescue died (unexpectedly..it was very sad), I managed to get all the photos she had of him. And it would be mooooooore than enough to fill an entire book.
I'll put my son's first year baby pictures in a My Publisher book!
Travel photos – none of them have ever made it off the computer and onto paper!
I love these! My fiance and I are traveling eloping abroad completely on our own (for financial reasons we decided saving for a house and a real vacation were more important than a fancy wedding). We're hiring a photographer, but I would create photo book to share with our family's of our special day! =)
I would put the photos that I have bee hoarding away for a couple of years from past beach vacations.
Thanks! I am so excited to make a book for my parents' 60th wedding anniversary! The entire family celebrated with them this past weekend and I have very wonderful photos of my parents, their grandchildren and children!
I would make a book of my daughters 2nd birthday party!!!!
The timing could not be more perfect. My husband and I just returned from our first trip to Italy and I'm looking forward to putting our picture memories together!
Thanks! I am so excited to make a photo book for my parents for their 60th wedding anniversary!
Our entire family got together to celebrate with them and I have so many photos of them, their grandchildren and children to share!
Wow, what a great giveaway! We've had kind of a quiet year, so I'd have to look through my photos to decide what to do…
Ahh where would I start? There was a time when I made a few of these with the plan of one for each season, each year. Then I had baby #3 and then baby #4. It's been awhile since I've made one, long overdue. So I have plenty of photos and a few family vacations to choose from. Thanks for the great tips!!!
Love love your ideas! I'm fairly new at making photo books and love them too.
Your books look great! I would love to do a book about our trip to Island Park, Idaho this past summer.
Thank you for the great tips! I would make the entire photo book a tribute to my daughters' first dog, Ellie, who passed away this past August. We acquired her from a shelter at 8 weeks old and she was a faithful companion to both girls for 10 wonderful years. She was a regular homework supporter, slumber party guest and bonfire participant. She is greatly missed by both girls!
Honeymoon photos! I'm a bit behind
My mom takes A TON of pictures. My son just recently mentioned that Grandma has a lot of really good pictures and maybe we should put them in some sort of album for her. I would love to be able to make one of these for my mom.
Love these. I would make a book of photos from my nephew's birthday party. I have the photos — want to do something fun with them!
All of my pictures of me and my husband from the past 3 years
I'd use it to make an anniversary gift featuring photos from our 30 years of marriage.
I would like to make a photo book for my mom, using pictures she's taken – because she would never do it herself.
I'd love to create a photo book with pictures from my recent trip to Puerto Rico! It was such a fun trip with so many beautiful places to visit, definitely gotta go back soon!!
We're taking our kids on a cruise next month. I've never made a photo book but I'd sure love to document this trip. We've been looking forward to it for a long time.
I would make a photo book for each of my children. They are as different as night and day so each book would be composed completely different from the other.
We are foster parents and I would use this awesome giveaway to make them a memory book of their time with our family!
I would put photos from our August 2014 Caribbean cruise in it.
My holiday in Paris earlier this year.
I am a new Mom (as of May!) and I really need to put all these digital photos of Leila's trip home from the hospital and her first few months at home into an album! It is a busy time but your post is motivating me to buckle down and make the photo album. I was thinking I could order copies of the baby book to give to the grandparents for Christmas too.
My nephew just got married and their professional photographer did a terrible job so I had everyone at the wedding email me the pics they took and I'm going to put together a photo book that hopefully will make up for the disappointing pro photos.
I would use it for 2014 holiday pics (that I will take this year!) – great give-away and great tips!
I usually keep up with my books via Shutterfly Groupon deals, but I'm all out of those. So this one would be our Summer 2014 family book.
I'd love to do a baby's first year for my younger son. His 1st birthday is in November so it would make a great Christmas present for grandparents. We did one with my older son and it turned out great!
I desperately need a book for LAST YEAR'S summer vacation…..
I made my first MyPublisher book this last spring and loved it, so I'm eager to make more! My next one will either be current pics from this year (like, the arrival of baby #6 that's due any day now!) or working backwards into last year's pics. Love all these tips from you!
I will make a book of my twin girls' preschool art from last year. They attended an amazing art based pre-school but now I have all these huge paintings and drawings that I have taken pics of but done nothing with… Yet!! Love your advice And your blog!
I would love to win this! I would do pics of my two girl's recent birthday parties!!
Our first grandchild was born this year so she is the main subject of my recent photos yet to be enshrined in a digital storybook!
I think this sounds like a good option to create a scrapbook of old/ancient family photos and memorabilia that are deteriorating over the years, if I can get them scanned and in a digital format. Thanks for the give-away and the tips!
I tried to make several books before, but never finished. They just never seem right. Thanks for those tips. I would put pictures of our last vacation to Florida.
Thanks for the great tips! I would like to make a book of photos documenting a summer cottage building project my father and I worked on this summer.
I have 6 kids to put in a book.
Love these books!
I will fill this with summer pictures of our three children! We went to the Sierras, beach camping, San Diego Zoo, and more. …I might just have to make a bunch of these!
I would put pictures of our boys in the book, probably from our trip to Myrtle Beach this past summer. Thanks!!
Oh so many! I've got recent photobooks of big family holidays but I would love to work backwards a little and do some from when the kids were much smaller! Perhaps our first camping holiday
My parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year so I'd probably make a book of all the family pictures taken that day.
I would love a photo book with our Montana vacation in it!
I would make a book of our family trip to Vancouver earlier this summer. I've made books for my kids every year since they were babies and they still love pulling them out and looking at them!
I would put in photos from my son's new born photo session. I have a book like this for my oldest son, but haven't created one from my second son. Being a middle child myself, I don't want Hank to miss out on a new born book like his brother's.
I tried my publisher because of you and I loved it. If I won a book I would make it of our most recent beach vacation.
All our pictures from our most recent vacation!
I'd put the pictures I'm going to take during my 30th birthday trip to Nashville in October!
I have to admit, I've never done one of these. I'd do my Alaska trip. AMAZING scenery. As in whenever I think about it and remember, I still can't believe I'm so lucky to have gone there.
I know you've written about MyPublisher before but these tips are great! Thank you. I would work on a book of our newly expanded family!
Our trip we took this summer to Puerto Rico.
I've been wanting to make a photo book of our first four years of marriage, so that's what I'd use the photo book for!
We just returned from our 25th anniversary trip out west. We live in Michigan and my husband had never been west of the Mississippi River before! I would love to make a photo book of it….
I would put photos of my daughters, dogs, and my niece and nephew in the book. I haven't started any photo albums since our old photos and SD cards were destroyed. Thank you for all the tips.
Loved reading the tips! They will be very helpful as I start to make my own photobooks from 2014 on back to …..well, a long time ago! Scrapbooking hasn't went so well for me either.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I would use our pictures from our family vacation this summer to Tennessee.
I would make a book of my little boy's first year!
This has been our 6 months in the USA. Would put the photos from the last year in
So cool! I really, really want to make a photobook of our wedding…four years later and I still haven't gotten the pics off the computer!
Vacation photos.
I would love to create a photo book of my son's 1st birthday. Thanks!
I am embarrassed to say that when I switched from film to digital photos – well, I haven't done anything with those photos, ever. Years of them! Just sitting on my computer or in the camera or the phone. I really would like to make a book of some of them and have started watching the deal sites to try it out.
I would love to make a photo book for our recent trip to Myrtle Beach.
Wonderful tips!! I'd put pictures of my children in a book!!
I'll put photos of my 18 month old daughter in my book.
I'd work on catching up on the last year or so of family photos
I would do a book dedicated to our daughter's 1st year. I did more with photos with our son, but all of the photos of our daughter are sitting in our computer waiting to be either put into a book, or printed to frame. A free book would certainly get us moving on getting that completed.
Family photos from this past Christmas!
My grandfather passed away on June 29th of this year, and my mother, an only child and life long daddy's girl has been absolutely heartbroken since his passing. We are not a scrapbooking family so most of the photos we have are stored away in boxes or still just digital files on a laptop. I would love to design a photo book for my mom of all of her favorite memories with her dad to give her as a gift this Christmas. I am so inspired after reading this post that it would be an absolutely beautiful way to honor his memory!
My daughter just turned two….so I would make a book of those first two terrific years. (Maybe that would require more than one book, though.) Thanks for the great tips!
DH and I married with very little fanfare, but thanks to my sister, we do have photographs. Our second anniversary is approaching and a My Publisher Book would make a lovely and frugal gift.
I have thought about several ideas for photo books but the top idea is to put together a book of last year's learning activities – from our co-op, field trips, vacations, experiments, kitchen projects, 4-H activities, and other things. Right now all my photos are "held hostage" on my computer.
Pictures of my four girls growing up now that they've all left home!
I need to do a childhood photo book of my daughter who is now 33 years old!
Awesome! I would love to win the My Publisher give away. Every year since (oh too many to count) my two friends and I have made time out of our schedules to do a "Get-Away" weekend, usually we go to Lancaster. We are all in our 50's now and I have taken so many pictures along the way I would love to do a book for myself so I could get the hang of using the My Publisher program. Then I would like to make 2 more and give them to each of them for Christmas as a wonderful memory of our trips.
I am on my way home from a friends wedding in Malibu, and the pictures are amazing. I'd love to be able to gift her a memento from her wedding
Amazing photo book pages! I would make a book about my two daughters and some family things we do together.
Thankyou so much for all your tips. I too used to scrPbook back in the day and now I love making photo books too! I look forward to trying my publisher.
I would put photos from this summer — camping trips and day trips! Thanks for the giveaway…
My daughter-I would do 6mo to a year.
So many photos, so little time!
Appreciate all of your tips. This will be a big help.
I would love to make this for my husband for Christmas!
I'd love to make a book of our family vacation this past summer. There were so many great gems of the first grand kid in the family and the sun and sand.
Our 4 year ol granddaughter is our favorite photo subject. Would so love to give My Publisher a try. So far I have only used Shutterfly and am curious to see the difference i.e. ease of downloading, quality of pictures, etc. Thanks for your consideration. Ce
I will use pictures of my grandson. He is 6 1/2 months old. I keep him most days, and I am always taking pictures of him. He is my only grandchild, and he is so precious. I would love to make a book of some of his pictures.
Thank you for the opportunity to be a winner
I have been inspired by the photo books that you have been doing for your family. I would make a first year book for my almost 7 year old son. Life has been so crazy since he was born that I haven't had a chance to put a book together for him.
This is great. I have a coupon waiting at home for me. Please enter my name.
My husband and I went on a birding trip to Ecuador earlier this year. The birds were amazing and would make a great photo book. Also, a book with our grandkids would be fun.
Our summer pictures!
We went to Disney this past March and I would LOVE to put all of the pictures from our trip in a photo book. I also have several other years of photos I'd love to put together (including our wedding!!!) Let's just say I'm way behind on this front.
I've heard great things about MyPublisher!
Excellent tips, Kristen. To be honest, I take about 40 million photos a day, but I don't like photo books. I would super-love to give a MyPublisher opportunity to my best friend, though. Her birthday is tomorrow!
Our church celebrated a 25 year anniversary. I took many photo and would like to put them in photobook form rather than print and put in photo albums. We have 25 years worth in the photo albums. So, this would be a nice transition to CONTEMPORARY!
I have just started so baby pictures from 2009′
Thanks for the tips! I'd make a book of my daughter's recent HS graduation.
Thanks for these awesome tips!!
I would create a book of my family's summer trip to Boston.
I've never tried MyPublisher before…I would fill a book with family pictures from when my teens were little!
I'd start with pictures of our first camping trip. It was fun for all 3 boys, my husband and I. Thanks for your great tips!
I would love to make a book with recent photos of adventures with my grandkids.
I would do my daughter's baby photos. Your post makes me want to take more pictures!
I have wedding photos from a dear friend that I would make into an album to gift them.
What a fantastic offer. I would put pictures from our vacation this summer. I rarely get to see my family, and a photo book would help ease the pain of separation!
I'd love to get in the habit of documenting my 2 year old's adventures!
We haven't done anything with any photos since our wedding so I would start making a book from there and hopefully keep up with your method!
I would make a photo book of our trip to Florida and the Bahamas that we took this last spring!
What great tips! I try to make a photo book every year. It's going to be time for this year's book before long!
I'd probably do an album full of before and after pictures of our house… from 8 years ago!
My daughter, 6th year. She just turned 10. And I've only finished 5 years. ) :
I just had a baby 2.5 months ago, so I'd make a photo book all about her.
I'd make a book of baby photos of my kids … who are now 2 and 3! They're starting to ask constantly about themselves as babies, especially the 3-year-old!
Hi! I would put pics of all 3 of my kids in them. I love this idea. ")
I'd love to put my personal engagement weekend photos as well as professional engagement photos into a photo book! It'd be a great way to display such a wonderful time.
Love the tips! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I would make a book of my grandson's soccer games or, depending on the time requirements, of our new grand daughter who is to arrive in January :-).
I really need to make a May book. May 2014 was a doozy-2 graduations and the accompanying celebrations! It would be fun to do it in these books!
I would put photos of my travels with my new boyfriend in a book!
I would put pics of my kids in the photo books. I'm been meaning ot start doing this but haven't yet… Here's my chance I guess!
What a neat giveaway! If I win, I promise I will actually use it to make a photo album, probably of my upcoming vacation.
I'm 6 months behind on my promise to give the grandparents a photo-book every 3-months for 1 year…what was I thinking making such a promise???
I would love to make books with photos of my grandchildren. Thanks so much for the helpful hints.
I would love to win a free photo book. I would use it to scrapbook my wedding (May 1993.) All these years, and I've never gotten around to it. The old way of scrapbooking seemed to take too much time and trouble. These photo books seem so easy. Thanks for the chance to win.
I'll use it to make a book of my vacation down the west coast I just took!
I would do a book of our trip kayaking the Missouri River!
I would do an ABC photo book for my youngest. Did one for each of the other children but she didn't get hers yet.
I would make a book with photos of my grandmother throughout her life and give it to my mom. my mom, my grandmother and I have had a very close relationship my mom is fighting lung cancer and my grandmother passed away last month at the age of 99. While I look at the possibility of losing my own mother, my heart breaks for her as she grieves the loss of her own. I think this would be a lovely ray of sunshine for her.
I make photo books of my daughter every year, but I think I'd like to make one featuring my photography for a change!
Question– Based on your previous recommendation I use Picasa. I do wish there were more functions but I have all my photos organized and backed up through them. Did you move everything out of Picasa?
I would love to make a My Publisher book for my mother, from our family vacation we took together.
Good tips I'd make a photobook of our family's summer camping adventures.
I would like to start with both of my kids graduated twice in the same year. My daughter high school my son from 8th grade then 4 years later we did it again she graduated from college then him from high school. I took many pictures from both of those events and would love to put them in a book.
Thank you
I'd love to do a book on my 25th wedding anniversary trip.
Pictures from our recent trip to Austria! Grandparents would love to have a photo book to remember that trip.
Still need to make a book of our adoption trips to China!
Pictures from our trip to Yosemite. We went 2 years ago and I still haven't made a photo book!
One of my roommates is getting married in March, so the other bridesmaids and I are going to make a photo book for one of her gifts!
My wedding!
Photos of my kids when they were babies thru Pre-K. They are so big now!
I was an avid scrapbooker for years, but have not put anything in an album since… 2006… I would love to start experimenting with digital photo books, as the budget allows!
I'm contemplating making a photo book for my inlaws of them and their grandchildren. A win would seal the deal Thanks for the tips!!!
My daughter is nine months old so I would put the photos birth to six months in a first photo book! I hope I win!
I finally finished the kids' baby photo books and filing the photos I had already printed in physical albums. So now I'm ready to start photo books for the rest. I think I'll be starting circa 2011…
This would be perfect to make a honeymoon photo book. (A project that's 3 years overdue). I keep telling myself I will get to it one day.
I would make a photobook for holidays! Our daugher just turned 1,so I would love a good way to commemorate the fall and holidays now that she is aware of what's going on
I made a photobook for my husband when he was selected to deploy last year. I still need to work on our LIFE books. I only was able to do the first 5 years. I also need to do one for our son who turns 21 this year.
I need to do my youngest child's baby book!!
I would put I the photos I took from this past year. I usually do a book per year or event.
Pictures of the kiddos over the last year
I think I would make a photo book of my recent Disney Cruise on which I celebrated my 30th Birthday!
I've made some photo books before for each of the kids as their baby book and gifts for the grandparents. But since then, I've just stored the thousands of photos. This would be a great idea so that our kids can have photo memory books like we have of our childhoods!
Pictures of the kiddos and family events that have t over the last year
Thanks for all the great tips. I'd love to make a book for our family beach trip.
What a great give-away! I would make books similar to yours to catch up on my girls' homeschooling adventures.
I am so excited to make a photo book with our summer travel pictures!
Pictures of the kiddos and family events that have taken place over the last year
Our book would be a "Family Book" that I need to make for an upcoming adoption of foster children! We want to adopt a sibling group of 5 kids, and need a family book to show them about us, and tell our family story. <3
I think I'll FINALLY (6 years later) make a album with our wedding pictures.
I was also an avid scrapbooker when my kids were young but now I have accumulated many years of digital photos which I would LOVE to put in a photo book. Pick me please!!
We did a summer siding project this summer that transformed the outside of our home. I took pictures throughout the process. I'd mix them in with other shots from our summer–camping, fishing, hiking, etc.
Picures from 2009…..im so far behind.
I need to catch up on 4 years of our family's life!
Great tips! I am getting ready to put one together for my daughter (she finished high school this summer) and your tips will help!
Thanks for the tips! I'd like to do a lot more photo books to keep up with my pictures!
I have 7 years of photos I keep saying I am going to make photo books for. I need to win a free one and do it!
It would be nice to finally make a wedding album (just had our 2nd anniversary!)
I love the idea of photo books. I've been scrapbooking for years, but now with two kids I don't have time to make them fancy. A book would make things more organized. I'm going to try it for my Family year book.
I'd love to win a photo book. I made one with pictures from my daughter's first 3 months of life…she's now 5 and I have lots of catching up to do!!
I love these tips and will try to incorporate in my next photo book. I would make a photo book of our trip to China to visit our daughter who was living there. Thank you!
Baby pictures from our first year as parents!
I would make a photo album of our summer adventures. Overall it was a summer I'd like to forget but there were some really good times!
I always try to make a book for every year for my daughter and one for any special events that we may have. I could use this book for 2014 or catch up from previous years. I have made several photo books, but I learned a lot of great tips here. Thanks!
I'm working on old photo books too! I never did our engagement and wedding photos from 2011, so those would get to priority.
I'd put the pictures of my daughter that never got scrapbooked. Probably would need far more than one book to do that though.
I'd either do a re-cap of 2014 or do a book as a Christmas gift for the in-laws.
My sister made one of these for our disney trip. I'd like to have one for our Jackson Hole trip.
I would put my daughter's senior pictures in the book. She's my oldest and the first who will leave the nest for college. I can't believe she'll be gone in less than a year!
I could put any of the last 5 years into a photo book; there's no competition! (Would love tips on how to make nicer looking books with my own random photos… that is, fairly unprofessional looking – generally taken with phone, not sure they're high enough resolution for full-page, perhaps not especially artistic : ) … Wish I took lovely ones like yours!)
I love my My Publisher books! If I won is use it for our upcoming Disney trip this fall!
I would definitely make my book one full of newborn pictures of my son since we never had any printed and he's nearly 5 y.o.!
If I were to win, I would actually gift this to my mother who uses My Publisher at full price. Due to my being an avid FG blog reader I bought some groupons for my mom to help elliviate costs. She is new to the Groupon/Living Social/etc world. Thanks for this opportunity!
I love your blog and reallllllllly love your tips for the photo books! Your pictures are always so charming. You really have an eye for details and composition. I would love to make a photo book of my quilts. I am an avid quilter and people are always asking me if I have pictures of them…and I do…but just not in an organized way. I think this would make a beautiful book. Thanks.
I would definitely use our photos from our last family trip to the Florida Keys. Our oldest son will be leaving soon for grand adventures elsewhere, and it would be a great gift for him.
Our wedding photos! Almost three years and we never printed them. So embarrassing.
I would make a book of my daughter's first year.
I would love this! My oldest son started soccer this year so I would probably make a soccer album for him!
I will put this years photos in it that are on my computer…just waiting
I have so many pictures that I want to put into books, but I think I would start with my wedding, 13 years ago.
I have so many baby/toddler photos to organize and make books for two kids now, its crazy, and this would help me immensely in doing so!!! I need to get this done. What a great giveaway!
I've been using Walgreens for my photo books and discovered the same thing you did about the front cover pictures–sooo much better in a bigger size. They don't have all the options MyPublisher has, so it's good to know what's available out there (and the best way to use it–thanks, Kristen).
I'm getting married soon and would love to put together a book of photos of the works-in-progress of all the cool art (decorations, wedding favors, etc.) that we are putting together for the wedding!
Family vacation photos
I'd make a book of my two year old, since I haven't even purchased a baby book for her yet.
My husband just passed away two weeks ago. I have lots of photos that are sitting on my computer that I would love to put in a book and keep it by my bed so I can look at it before I go to sleep and when I wake up.
I would us photos of my kids and grandkids. My son is a good photographer, and takes lots of pictures of everyone at Christmastime.
My first grandchild is 9 months old. 'Nuff said?
Great tips. I love making photobooks and if I win I plan to use it to make one for my daughter and her fiance with their baby pictures and photos from when them met to the present. They are getting married Dec. 6 and that will be part of their wedding gift – something to treasure! Many thanks and hope I win.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Admittedly, I'd fill my photo book with kitten pictures
My oldest daughter is a high school senior this year. I would love to make a book with photos of her through the school years as she gets ready to start the next chapter in her life!
It would be so hard to decide which pictures of my kids, ages 8 and 12, to put in a My Publisher book. I think it might be baby pictures though!
I have tons of photos to use, but I really want to make a book for this current football season, as my daughter has started high school and is in marching band. It will make a fantastic gift for her to document this exciting time!
I would do my son's first year/baby book. (He's five years old now)
Thank you for all of these tips! I've never made a digital book before but I'm making the switch now since I used up our traditional scrap books. Ours will contain 2013-2014 photos;).
I love the idea of photo books! My sister and I did some for family members as gifts a couple of Christmases ago. If I did a new photo book, I would fill it pictures from our Colorado vacation from this past August. It was our first "real" vacation out of state. We had so much fun and made so many memories!
I, like you love to do photo books! I usually put our vacation photos in a book; however, this time of year is "pumpkin patch" time! So, I will definitely be using the photo book for those pictures. They are by far my favorite! Even though my oldest is now 14, (13 and 6 are the other two), we still do the "patch pics" every year. They are surprisingly cooperative, and the fall colors make for the most awesome photos! Thanks for all your great thoughts and ideas!
Blessings to you and your!
Great giveaway! I will put in pictures from our upcoming family Thanksgiving cruise!
I would make a photo book for 2014. I have a backlog of ten years or so of photos that I feel guilty about organizing and making binders, but it's just so daunting. Your idea of doing the most current ones first and then catching up on the older photos is genius because it makes the whole process so much more doable. Thank you for offering this giveaway! You've most definitely inspired me to give My Publisher a try:)
I'd fill a photo book with pictures of my newborn baby boy!
I would love to win this! I would put my youngest son's baby pics in a book (he's 3.5 now).
I'll finally make photo baby books!!
I will use pics of family & pets. Thanks for the great tips!
ooh… we just did the color run with my girls and a bunch of friends! i would love to make that into a book~
Great Tips! Photos of my 2 beautiful granddaughters!!!
To start off I'll do a book of a long-ago but not forgotten family trip. We have an empty nest now and this will be a great reminder of by-gone days.
The first of many books, I hope!
Hi! Does this work for Canadians??
I will put family pictures, of course Because they grow soooo fast and we forget all the little things….
Photos from my youngest son's first year. That was three years ago.
We have an 18 month old little boy. No shortage of photos here!
I think I will make all our photos into photo books! I would probably start with our recent road trip to spacecamp in Alabama!! Thanks for the great tips!
I would have to start by catching up on all my sons baby photos… He's now 2 so time to get that started!
I would put pictures of our recent camping trip to Zion with my sister and her kids.
great tips. thanks! i'll make a book of photos from our lake trip this summer.
Newborn photos of my now 10 week old when he was just 15 days!
I would make a My Publisher book of the first year of our family's new greenhouse business. It would be awesome to have those photos in one place and to add comments now while I remember how this first year has gone. Thank you for the chance to win- I love your posts about your photo books.
Thanks for the tips! I have been wanting to do this with my photos and didn't know where to begin. This was very helpful
I would love to do a year in review as you do.
I would start with 2014 holiday season. It may take me forever to go back and get the past done, so I'd just start with what is happening right now!
I'd love to make a book of my 2 kids together. Sweet pictures of them loving on each other as a reminder in a few years when they're big kids and may not like each other as much
I would put together the first year of my sons life. He's now two and half…I am a little behind:(
I'm looking for photobook deals to gift to my parents and in-laws after our upcoming wedding! Also, a sweet souvenir of our honeymoon!
I have my daughter's first year of preschool pictures and artwork snap shots that really need to go in a book soon as another year has started.
I'd like to print a book of our summer pictures. Thanks for the advice!
Like you, I have many past years of photos to print. Where to start?? I guess I might start with a trip we made this spring to the other side of the country to visit our son in Washington.
My mom is 67 years old. I have always wanted to try a photo book. If given the opportunity I would make a book of my mom through the years. Who knows it might inspire me to make other books.
I've only made one book with My Publisher so far and I really love it. Am anxious to try another. Thanks for the tips!
Love the tips! I'm goi g to cut and paste them into a word doc for future reference! If I win a free book I'm going to make one in honor of my 10 year wedding anniversary (it's next month – 10/10) I'm a traditional scrapbook person but very behind. I make them by year. A different kind of book might be nice in honor of this special occasion. I've also been thinking of converting but o have SO much scrapbook stuff to use up. I also don't know what to do with all ticket stubs, invitations, announements, etc. that I include in my books. Thanks for the post!!
I'd love to make one of these! I'd put a compilation of family Christmas photos in my photobook.
Well how can I choose which of my three children to feature? My oldest daughter is in Assault City Roller Derby (Syracuse, NY) and those photos are awesome!!! They would look great and I have enough for a whole book. My youngest daughter plays lacrosse for Utica College (Utica, NY) and I have many pics of her in action. My middle child, a son, doesn't have any activities to photograph except his face. haha. We also have two dogs and two cats. Wow. The list is endless. I definitely would have to wait for a Living Social and / or Groupon to get more books. One will not be enough. I love yours. Thanks for the tips. And for hosting the giveaway.
I've done one other photo book, and to do another, I'd include this past spring and summer of both of my children. They would love to have one!
My sister and I, both in our 60s, took a fabulous trip to Ireland last year and I want to make a photo book for her for a birthday gift. Thanks for your frugal tips.
I've always wanted to make a photo book and your tips have inspired me:). I would use my daughter's marching band pictures from the last 4 years to make a book. It would show how much she has grown and matured and she would love the memories.
My first thought would be to make our wedding album because we never did that. But on second thought, I'd like to make a photo book of my dogs for my uncle. He doesn't get to see the puppies that often and talking about them really makes his day so that would be a nice Christmas gift for him.
I would put in pictures of our wonderful vacation we just took to Vancouver Island, B.C. where the scenery is so fabulous! It would have pictures of family and area I spent most of my adult life at. All your tips have inspired me to do something with them instead of just putting them on a disk. Thank you for being so informative.
I have lots of photos to organize. I've only done a few photo books and I have many more events to organize.
A book of my son's first 10 years, for his Nana!
Wonderful tips! I'd make a photo book of our wedding, which was 5 years ago now, but I am not a crafty person, so we have a photo album, but no scrapbook or anything.
My photo book would be filled with photos of our rapidly growing children and the memories we have made!
Family photos!
I am planning on making a book with pictures from our latest Las Vegas vacation from this last summer
i would love to win one of your my publisher books! Since we spend 11 weeks over summer in the Niagara valley as my husband did an internship at a local church. I would love to use the photo book to record all our very precious memories that we made especially since our home country is New Zealand! (We currently live in the in the USA though 😊)
I would love to put my pictures with my fiancée in a book so we can walk down memory lane
My oldest daughter recently graduated from high school, so I would do a school picture compilation book along with pictures from her graduation and party!
Grandchildren – I'd fill the pages with photos of my precious grandchildren. They make my heart smile.
I would certainly do a book about 2014! I like you… was/am a scrapbooker and have not kept up like I should have. Starting in the present and working backwards is definitely a better idea (and probably a lot more fun), and one that I need to do asap!
My daughter just got married. I would like to create a book for her that would include photos from her engagement, her bridal shower and the preparations leading up to her wedding.
Thank you MyPublisher for this opportunity.
Your website video is awesome.
Our oldest turns 13 (teenager!!!?) this year, and I have been thinking of creating an online photobook for him, highlighting all of his years thus far. I have never made one before, so thought I would give it a try. GREATLY appreciate your insights/suggestions…. This is perfect timing for me. Thanks!!
I want to scan and put all of my daughters baby photos in photo books.
I'd probably make a book for my mom. Though I did not have access to a camera for quite some time and now most of those pictures are of my cat or varying crochet and sewing projects. She'd still like it, I think.
I've never made a scrap book before, but with three kids now, I bet I could fill 20 pages easily. Thanks for offering this giveaway!
I would make an album of pictures from my wedding.
Summer vacation pictures!
i would make a book of our recent trip through yellowstone, grand tetons and other national parks out west.
I've made one photo book, of the year that my daughter was born. She just turned three, so I have a lot of catching up to do! I like your idea of working backwards in time, so I'll probably start with this summer.
What an awesome giveaway !! I'd probably focus on photos from the vacations we've taken over the years but just a few from each so I can show how much my kids have grown over the years.
I want to make a photobook for my 2-year old daughter of all of her favorite photos. They usually include daddy cuddling her or her playing outside.
I need to make a photo book of my niece's 1st year still! This would be the perfect opportunity. Oh, and one of our recent vacation. I need a groupon too…. !
Vacations! I have years of family vacation photos that would look great in an album like this Thanks for the tips!
Just retired and would love to make a book of pictures of camping with our grandchildren
Thanks for the tips! Our 10th anniversary is coming up, so I would likely make a book for my husband to document the first 10 years of marriage! Thanks for the opportunity!
I will put pictures of my family, grandkids, we had a new graddaughter in june we have lots of pictures of the kids
I would use to make First Day of School Pictures from throughout the years for my adult children and young grandchildren. Wouldn't that be fun?
I would love to put my upcoming (next week!) trip to Magic Kingdom and a Disney cruise in a new MyPublisher book! Thanks for all of the helpful hints.
I will put photos from our trip to Crete this summer in my photo book.
This year was filled with many small weekend getaways. I would love to put it all together in one book! Thanks!
I will put our Disneyworld pictures from this summer. My kids are 2 and 3 so it is a precious time to remember.
I think I would do a book with pictures from when my sister and I were little. I have been scanning them into a file on my computer and I think a photo book would make a great gift for my Mom.
I'd put pictures of my kids from the last 4 years. I haven't printed photos for over 4 years now (except bigger ones to hang in the living room) and I desperately need to get caught up!
Oh, I'd love to just do pictures of my husband and me from the past few years — we made one of these with our wedding photos but haven't done one since then! Or pictures from when we were dating/engaged — that might be even better.
I'd love a free photobook to make an album from my recent honeymoon pictures!
I would play catch up and do a book of the past year. I have not been good at taking photos lately!
My 93 year old mom and I have carefully culled years of family photos, which was a joyful process. I would love to make a few compact books for posterity! Thank you.
Baby photos of my 22 month old. With #2 on the way I need to get all of #1's photos organized ASAP!
i have so many photo books to catch up on! gosh, it'd be hard to pick. but i'm trying to get all my international trips taken care of first, so i think france is next.
My husband and I are newlyweds and I would love to put together a nice photobook of our recent honeymoon trip!
Thanks for sharing your blogs.. love every posting and it gets me through the day. =)
These are such great ideas! Thanks for sharing:) I would probably do our Gatlinburg trip from Dec.2012. That was our first non-camping vacation in years. Although our annual camping trip is fun too.
I must admit that photo books from the last 10 years (gulp) have been on my to-do list for… the last 10 years? Maybe this would finally motivate me to get 'er done!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I've been faithfully labeling and categorizing digital photos of our family for many years waiting for the perfect time to put them into an album and share them with my family overseas, since they do not have access to a computer and therefore can't keep up with all the changes in their grandchildren's lives.
I would create a collection of photos of the people who mean most to me.
I have so wanted to start doing what you are doing with your photos. We have a few event oriented books, but I'd love to begin making a books covering a certain time period. I am also thinking of doing a book for each child and giving it to them on their birthday… though maybe an every other year one with that idea! Thanks for the giveaway!
These are fantastic! I've never done one. It would be of my boys!
We also took the kids to Disney over this last summer.. would love to get them into a photo book!
I love the idea of starting with recent pictures and going backwards. That's probably what I would do. I've been horribly negligent about keeping photos organized. So I have many, many years of backtracking to do. Like 20!! It would be great fun to start with a free book.
I think I'd do a book of my daughter's pictures (who turns 10 in just under 2 months)!
Like you, I now do all my scrapbooking online. I've used Shutterfly up to this point because there are so many free 8×8 deals, that I can easily create free books for all our vacations and special occasions. Still, I've heard good things about My Publisher! Isn't it funny how we learn as we go? I did date my spines from the beginning, but I chose some patterned spines that look too busy. Now, I stick to simpler things and make sure my text always stands out dramatically. Great tips, Kristen!
What an inspiration to finally do what I have been neglecting . . . sort my digital pictures! Three kids, so many online albums — would love the chance to test out My Publisher. Thanks for the tips, and I love your albums!
I would put pictures of my kids in MyPublisher book. You are an inspiration! Thank you for the tips and giveaway!
Love the idea of making a photo book! Never have done it and would love the motivation to get started.
hmmm I think I would make a book of pictures of my 4 month old nephew.
I think I would make a book on my family through the years. I've never made one before, so this would be a first.
I recently moved back to Florida to be near my 5 grandchildren. I would make a book with all the things I have done with them since I came back.
I have been putting off doing books of my 1800 !!!!!!
REALLY !!!! Photos for years . This would SOOO get me moving .
Thanks .
I can't wait to get the pictures from my daughter's brownie troop into a book. I know she'll have so much fun choosing the photos together.
We are planning a small getaway in the near future. I would make a book with just pictures from the trip. Starting with the present and keeping photo books seems much less daunting than trying to put together picture books from the past.
LOVE your tips; very down to earth and usable. Makes me ache to create — would love to WIN!
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I would love to create a book of all the pictures I took of my daughter this year!
I will put pictures from my children's childhoods. They have complained that I did not take enough pictures of them growing up. They don't realize that I do have the pictures. I have the first couple of years in photo albums. The others are just in a hatbox our two. This would be an incredible surprise!
I will be making a photo book of my twins' first days. I am so behind (they are almost 4!)
I would love to win this! I have just started to follow you. One if the most inspiring posts that I have read here has been your journey wit your photo books! I would use these in the exact way you have. One book for each year. I have tons of photos that are just sitting there! Fours kids and a Disney trip later!
I'm so far behind I don't even know… But I might start with my trip to Europe a couple years ago!
I will make a photo book of the fun we had at my parents' house this summer for my mom for Christmas.
I will put together a book chronicling the past summer with my 1-year old son! I have so many picture uploaded already and would LOVE to put together a book.
Hmmm…hard choice. I think I need about 20 of these to go through all our family photos. I think I'll have to start buying them and working my way backwards, so I guess I'd start with our most recent photos from this summer.
I would put in pictures of my daughter to give to grandparents out of state.
I've been compiling and culling historical family photos with my mom; need to put them in far more compact books for the next generation. thanks.
I am trying to do a photo book for each year of my kids lives, but I didn't start until my second child. So I need to go back and do the first couple years of my first born. Also, you are ending this one my birthday, and this would be an awesome b-day gift for me! Love your books and you blog.
I've been thinking of making a photo book for each of my children. My husband gets a photo calendar each Christmas with pics of our kids throughout the previous year. Think it would be a nice present for son & daughters too. Thanks for giveaway & tips!
I am so far behind that I would likely start with my most recent photos. Thanks for these helpful tips!
I would make foe of our kids graduation still on the camara
I would love to get caught up in my scrapbooking. My poor son (age 5) doesn't have one since his birth
I would finally get around to making my boys' baby books!
I would compile pictures of normal life through the last year. Thanks for all the tips!
I want to make one for my sister of my little nephew so I will be using photos of him for the My Publisher book!
My photo book would be fill with family photos that show our love for one another.
I would make a book with pictures from our summer here in Colorado!
We will be taking a trip in a few weeks and I wanted to put the pictures in a published book. I've been digi scrap booking for years now but now I just want to show off the pictures. They speak all the words.
Baby books!
What beautiful photobooks! Our little family is soon to grow from two to three – a photobook like this would be perfect for all the pictures of our newborn baby.
I've been procrastinating on making a photo book of my birthday trip to Paris. I'm sure this would be a big push to get it done so we can easily enjoy thumbing through the memories!
Pictures of my first grandchild
I have always loved photography but not so much scrap booking…I have not done a photo book and need to pull the trigger and finally start my creative juices flowing for one! I have 3 beautiful kiddos and so many pictures sitting on my computer I am ashamed. I have done calendars every year, I have framed pictures, and I have printed pictures for projects for the kids at school…I have no excuse please get me on the road to making my first ever photo book…I will even share it when I do Thanks for all the great tips!
I am forever catching up on photo books! Would love to make a dent in this year's event photos.
These are great tips, thank you! I would start with the vacation we took this past summer because it was the first time we've seen family since we've moved here 6 years ago.
I'd love a book of my two boys (ages 1 and 3) at the pick-your-own apple orchard and the pumpkin farm. Fall pictures are some of my favorite!
Lots of pictures of my children "at school" (homeschool) – to make sort of a yearbook for them. That way it will be easier to remember what year it was that we…….
It's time to make a book of baby #2's hospital stay and what better way than with a book giveaway? And I've been wanting to try MyPublisher.
I would make a book containing the photo's from my mother-in-laws 90th birthday party/reunion held in August 2014! What a great day and would love for her to have a book to look at.
I'd love to enter this (and can, because it does say they ship to Portugal/Europe)
It'd be a fantastic way to document our first 4 years here in Portugal since we relocated our family in July 2010.
So that's what photos I'd put into mine
I Will Put Pics Of My Now 2 Month Old Baby, Sadie.
I would fill it with pictures of my son's first year of life!
Oh definitely would put my year in Angels baseball in there. From spring training to the playoffs and I hope world series
I want to make my kids baby books out of photo books. I made my youngest child's book that way, and it turned out so great! I've only got three more kids to go
I would design the books with our 2014 photos!
What an awesome idea. I would put pics of my family that I have been trying to remember to print off and file away for later, but have not had time to do…
Thanks for the great tips.
Your tips are intriguing to me, because I used to do my photos this way (using shutterfly) and now we find that we LOVE when I do at least a label and a ribbon (like to separate photos with, when you have a photo-full page. Not like a flower tacked to the top, though my mom loves those sorts of things in her books) per page. My husband and I find it much more to our taste.
I never thought about the dated-ness, but after thinking about it for a minute, I LOVE IT. Our clothes and hair and our children will be dated, the scrapbook should be dated too. Like an old house, right? It looks off when you go into a 1920s bungalow and it's decorated like 2005. It looks fabulous when it's decorated like the 20s or totally neutral. So, I should make sure that our older photo books (I am missing one from my son's first year, and all our photos from prekids) have a neutral theme, unless I can find an appropriately old theme pack.
Oh, and I would probably do a photobook from our wedding! With over 2000 pictures, most of which I hate, the book is very intimidating. If I only had 20 pages, no guilt in cutting some of the pictures in which my family members look less-than-flattering, or that remind me of parts of the wedding I prefer to forget (like getting the wrong flower order. We just went with it, and I sometimes wish we hadn't)
Good tips! I need to make a photo book of my twins baby year before they go to Kindergarten!
I'd probably make a book for my sister filled with her grandbabies
I would put the pictures from our family trip that we took to New York this past January.
Thanks for the tips! I will have to rethink how I am labeling the spines on my photo books. I would use this book for our honeymoon photos.
I have tons of these gorgeous nature/flower pictures that I've been meaning to print out and compile. Coffee table book here I come!
I'd make a book with photos of my growing family! I love photobooks and wouldn't mind trying out MyPublisher.
This is so great! I have made a book for each of my girls after their gymnastics season. It is such a wonderful way to finish out the year! Would love to do it again for them!
I frequently find monarch caterpillars, and keep them until they hatch into butterflies. I'd make a book of all the pics I've taken of their amazing transformation process.
What a wonderful giveaway! I'd love to be able to put together an album about our family's trip to Boston two summers ago. We had such a great time, and learned so much.
I'll use it for photos of my first house, the before and afters, and all the fun stuff I got to do along the way! This is way cooler than a cheap photo album and printing pictures!
Thanks for the tips! I am still gathering courage to make my first book. So many choices…trip to Quebec….40th anniversary trip to Disney…..grandchildren…….African safari……
I have so many photos that I'd love to put in these books. I don't even know where to begin
I would create a 50th Anniversary book for my parents!
If there is no time limit to using it up I would put pictures of our baby girl who will be born late next month. We have one for our first baby girl too so the pair would be great
I would make a photo book for my brother with all of our crazy pictures!!!
I've made books for each of my babies' first years, so I'd make one for this baby. In addition, I would like to go back and make yearly books for the last five years.
Hi Kristen! My husband just retired from 33 years as a policeman and we are celebrating by going on a cruise. We are taking our
19 year old daughter with us since it is her fall break from college.
I would put our vacation photos from this year.
If I am fortunate enough to win I will put my son's graduation pictures in the book
Thanks for all the great tips as well!
Thanks for the wonderful tips! This is my daughter's senior year in high school and I've been wanting to make her a picture book of favorites. This would be something she could take to college with her and would include favorite vacations, friends, family events, parties, etc. I love the glossy cover you did with the Disney writing! We are Disney fans ourselves and I can see doing a page or two like that. Thanks for sharing.
I've been using Shutterfly to create "scrapbooks" for my son. I've done his first year so far (he's not 2 yet). I'd love to try out My Publisher for his second year.
I would put my wedding photos in a my publisher book!
I'm an event planner from work so I would make a collaboration of the events from 2014, which is the centennial anniversary of my company!
I have a whole box of photos from our adoption trip to China (almost 12 years ago !) that are desperately in need of being put into a book. I really need something to get me started!
I'd love to give this a try. I have so many pictures I'd love to get in a usable format but it totally overwhelms me to think of doing a scrapbook.
If I like it it might even tempt me to look into Groupon which totally scares me away usually.
I'd us this summer's pictures of our trip to the zoo – First trip for my nephews, last summer after graduating for mine!
Literally yesterday, I spent like $50 ordering almost four years' worth of prints for scrapbooking. So I would make a gift photo book for my mother-in-law, with pictures of the grandkids.
I would make a photo book about our 10 day trip to southern Oregon and the Oregon coast last summer.:)
I'm like you in that I used to be an avid scrapbooker and over the last few years I've gotten behind! So I think I would have to start with 2009 pictures to put in the MyPublisher book (if I win). Or maybe I'd just start with something recent so it will inspire me to do more! Thank you for all the tips!
Super! I would make one of my 2 sweet boys!
I have always wanted to try this, but have been too scared to try it! Thanks for all the tips. If I win this (or if there is another groupon deal) I will definitely give it a try! I have photos of my husband and I at Disney World – I would love to have a photobook to preserve those special memories!
My son just turned 1! I want to make a book with all his baby photos
I'm working on a My Publisher photo book at the moment, so getting it for free would be awesome!
I woke up at 5am this morning and realized that my first anniversary is coming up and I have over a year's worth of photos that I would like to put into photo books… I googled around to see what you think of MyPublisher, read the post that you have (July 2013) and went ahead and downloaded MyPublisher and started the first book. 4 hours later – baam – an email pops into my inbox offering this giveaway. I would like to make at least 4 books – winter, spring, summer and honeymoon… talk about coincidence
I love making photo books, but I've never tried MyPublisher. I want to make a book of my family's summer vacation. I live in a vacationy area so my parents, grandparents, brother, aunts, uncles and cousins all come down and rent a big house on the ocean about 20 minutes away from me. I took a bunch of pictures that are just waiting to be made into something!
Good point about patterned backgrounds becoming outdated quickly. I hadn't thought of that.
If I won a photo book I would start with my daughter's high school graduation. These books are beautiful!
Thanks for all your tips! I live making books and am heading to Budapest and Amsterdam soon!
If I won a MyPublisher photobook, I would finally pull together my unforgettable 2010 trip to the Philippines with my hubs, 2 kids and parents. My dad has since passed away, but my mom would LOVE to have memory book as a keepsake!
I would love to make a book this year – first grandbaby – wonderful memories!
Wow, thanks for sharing all the great information. Definitely feeling inspired! I would put pics from our recent family road trip with Grandma! So special!
I love your tips! I want to start organizing my photos in photobooks like you've done.
Thanks for the tips! I will be making family photo books.
I'd fill mine with all the pictures from my travels with my husband :).
I would out pictures of our upcoming road trip (pacific coast highway in mid October!) in a photobook!
I had always dreamed of taking my kids to Disneyland. We never made it….But, we took 5 of our grandkids this summer, and I want to make each of them a memory book, one for me and my husband too
Oh! My next project is a soccer book for my son. This would be great to try My Publisher. I usually use Shutterfly and I think I use most of your tips. Thanks!
Love the suggestions for making a great book! I have the last few years of our family life to catch up on
Oh, if I won, I would take a lot of new pictures to put in. I have lots of good intentions to take pictures, but not too many are taken. I'm usually too busy playing referee.
I have a ton of pictures of my 2 dogs that I'd love to make into a photo book!
I'd love to put together a book as a gift for my mom. I'd use pictures of her grandkids, whom she has only met once or twice (she lives across country). I do send her pictures of everyone regularly, but I know she'd enjoy a book! Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
LOVE these tips! I have been happy with the ones I've done in the past, but I believe if I used some of your tips, I'd be even happier! I LOVE these for gifts as well as to have for our family picture library. I seriously need to do something like this for pictures of this past year. I haven't had one digital photo printed in over a year!
I would love to win one of these! I've been wanting to make this type of book for my 13-year old son to capture his last 8 years of playing Little League. I have all of the perfect pics, just need to get them in a book
Great ideas!
I would absolutely use photos in a MyPublisher book of our family at a local playground–my son's first time climbing the slide (up instead of sliding down), with daddy's steady hands of course!
My 4-year old daughter and my 19-month old son – I have yet to put any pictures from either of them into photobooks. They're all sitting on my computer. I think I have upwards of 13,000 photos on my computer that I need to do something with (fortunately they are organized!). But I need to make something tangible for all to enjoy.
I totally love MyPublisher and used them (after reading your recommendations on your site) to make our wedding album. So much fun and so worth it because they let you print another for around $7 sometimes and we'd gotten a free copy for being a first time user. Anyway, one for each set of parents and one for us. Now I'm eager to make a first year baby book type album, but I've not found a coupon yet. Would LOVE to win this giveaway and finally get to make my little guy's baby book. The free shipping is almost the best deal about this (that's where the cost can get a little spendy, with the shipping). Thank you!
Cool giveaway! I usually use Shutterfly, but I'd love to give My Publisher a shot for a photo book about our road trip from CT to Chicago this (past) summer!
I need to get a book made for my lovely grandaughters and now that I am retired, I will have the time.
If I won the photo book, I would use my recent wedding photos!
Great ideas for creating books! My book would include my daughter's college graduation with a Masters' Degree and my other daughter's high school graduation and softball championship photos.
Great tips They will help a lot with my next (ok, first) book!
I've been slowly making "yearbook" type photobooks for our family using various Shutterfly promos. I would love to see how MyPublisher works!
I did buy a groupon for a similar deal a couple of years ago and promised my niece that I would help her put together a family photo album as a surprise christmas present for her parents. And then for some strange reason there was a problem with the groupon deal and everybody who hadn't used it in the first week after purchasing just got their money refunded. Since then, I haven't gotten around to attempting it again. So I owe my niece lots of time and a fabulous photo book. And of course, there are all those photos of my trip to Australia to visit my sister in 2012. Not to mention my annual trips to Halle to sing Messiah – that'd be a good one. And … hmm … I think I really need to start finding the time to work through all my photos and start making lots of photo books. Thanks for the opportunity to win one.
I'd love a way to collect our wedding pictures from last spring!
Trip to Russia
I will put my daughter's first year in the photo book! I am so behind on doing this!
Awesome tips! I would start the "great photo project" that I've been thinking about which is combining all the photos that myself and sister have taken of her children and start making yearbooks for her and my mom. (The oldest is now four which is why it's a great project!)
I am terrible about organizing and printing our photos, so I have a stockpile for at least 3 years I would start working on!
I will make one of these books for my recent wedding photos. I want to make one of these books for my husbands family in Mexico as well.
That's so cool! I've been wanting to do this with our wedding pictures, because our very awesome photographer gave us full rights to our pictures. Maybe this will be my chance!
These look great! We've been making photo books of our trips at Snapfish for a while and this looks comparable in quality. I'll be very curious to see how the price compares.
Thanks for the generous giveaway! I've been wanting to put together a book for my parents of pictures I've taken at their house, and this would be perfect for that project!
I would put pictures from our 3 month stay in Maine from late last year. (We live in Florida, but my husband got a 3-month contract to do some work up there, and I went with him.) It was a once in a lifetime trip, and so far I've done nothing spectacular with those photos. Bleh!
I would make a book of our recent trip to Italy and the Baltics!!
our yearly 2014 photos!
I'd make a book full of Halloween pictures!
I've been wanting to do a special book for a group of friends, just documenting our fun over the past couple of years – this would be perfect for it!
I'd start with photos from about 2009. Ever since my 3rd child was born and I started using FB to share photos with people, I've stopped printing photos and putting them in albums. I'd like to get back to some albums for posterity's sake.
My little hunny bunny is closing in on one year. I was planning on doing something like this anyways, but this would be awesome!
I LOVE making photo books ~ especially for gifts!
Let's see ~ if I won a photo book I would make a soccer album and fill it with all of our action photos of my son's soccer games!
Thank you and have a blessed day!
I would put pictures of my family! I am so, so behind on photo albums it is not funny! I was unaware that Living Social and Groupon offered My Publisher!! I am going to be on the lookout for those offers in the future! You're books are beautiful!
I'd make a photo book of our recent trip to the Outer Banks for my sister's 50th birthday. After all, she did experience the great time we had!
I would love to make a book of the photos from my trip to Boston this past summer!
my current Grand Canyon trip would be perfect for this!
Either Branson Vacation or my son's Kindergarten homeschool year!
Thank you!! for posting this! I always appreciate your posts, but this one is a subject of extra special significance and while I've done a couple of photo books in the past through other sites, I haven't been incredibly thrilled with them. I'm excited to give MyPublisher a try with some photos I just took at a birthday party … or perhaps one of the many other events of late that I have yet to get printed. Thank you for the tips, I love that I can learn from your experience!
My husband and I are taking our first trip as a couple to NYC next month, and I'd love to make a photo book of our trip pics. Thanks for all of the helpful tips!
I would make a book of my first baby! She is now 4 months old and we have been compiling many photos!
Definitely our trip to the Oregon Coast!
Oh my… I could go back quite a ways. I probably wouldn't. Summer 2014 seems like a good place to start.
I think I'll put pictures from our Disney trip this past summer.
I would like to make one of my grandchildren. They are growing so fast.
KIDS' choice! My kiddos LOVE to look at photos of themselves and I've been wanting to make them each a book with lots of their "favorites" from vacations, trips, family members, etc…
Great tips! My book would be our recent family vacation – got some good pictures there!
I am sooo behind on photo books that I don't even know where to begin. I'm also a scrapbooker, but then I got a full time job and all my free time went out the window. I guess I would start with the present and work backwards.
Thanks for the give-away!
Hmm, well, I still need to do pictures from our honeymoon, so I'm going to say I'd do that. It would be a great gift for my husband for Christmas!
We just moved from a town we LOVED, and I'd like to put together a special book with some of our favorite photos from our time there.
We just took a trip to Colorado, so I think those would be perfect
HAWAII!!! I was taken there for my 43rd birthday and want the memory to last forever…
I love making photo books anad have yet to try MyPublisher! I had a baby boy in February and am in need of a photo book to show off my new cutie!!
My New Years resolution is to take our gazillion photos stored online and do this exact thing. And…it's almost October and…I haven't even started. This would be awesome. Thanks for the tips!
i leave on a trip for Europe in a week and a half, so I would definitely love a book of those pictures!
I'd do a sports book of both my kids' events over the last year! I love to do photo books so I appreciate the tips- thank you!
Those are some really practical tips that aren't too hard for me to do! We really do need to make another photobook since our last was of our wedding. it would probably be of our first year in our first home.
Thanks to My Publisher and you for this giveaway! For the past 10 years, my parents have taken my sisters families and mine on an annual vacation. It has become one of our favorite things to do, and we talk about it year round. I've been saying for several years now that I would like to make them a photo book as a way to say "Thank You". I know they would love it!
I've always wanted to do a photo book but I just haven't taken the time to do it. Maybe now I will!
What would I put in? Dear ghu, I have enough backlogged vacation photos to fill an entire room of books. Maybe the most recent one.
I really need to document my family's most recent vacation! Thanks for the tips!
pictures of my 3 teenage daughters of course!
I love their books! I need to work on the baby book for my fifth:)
I would love to make a photo book with our honeymoon pictures.
I'd put photos of my 3 year old there. Being the third, he doesn't yet have any books with pictures of him and would be delighted to have one.
Thanks for all the tips! The book would either be our recent trip to Colorado or a composite of our 4 beautiful grandchildren. Might have to buy another one:)