Family annuals made easy
View our blog post below for information and inspiration on how to get your best photos from each year into a photo book to share with the whole family.
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Yearbooks & annuals
The ultimate keepsake for loved ones is a memory book recording milestones, celebrations and highlights from the past year. Our Yearbook Quickbook makes it easy to create a family annual photo book by simply dropping in your best 15-20 photos for each month. Make your year-in-review book a family tradition, and a beautiful book series, so you can remember your memories forever.
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Family yearbooks made easy
Although you may have shot thousands of photographs over the last 12 months, creating a family photo annual doesn’t have to be a big ordeal if you use our Yearbook Quickbook. It’s a readymade book design with a title page, and pages for each month that you can drop 15-20 of your favourite photos into. Most of the time you’ll spend creating your annual will be spent on reviewing and choosing the photos you want to include.
Here are some tips to keep things simple and speedy:
- File all your photos from each year in a single folder with a separate folder for each month
- Set a calendar reminder for the first week of each month to sort and back up photos from the previous month
- While sorting and backing up, tag or move your favourite 20-30 photos from the last month into a BEST SHOTS folder.
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When selecting your photos here are a few pointers to remember:
- Less is more
- Choose only the most meaningful and milestone shots
- Only choose shots that are in focus
- Don’t double up, every photo should be unique
- For visual interest, choose photos in both landscape and portrait orientation
- Select a range of photos that give a well-rounded view of what you’ve all been up to.
- Don’t just focus on a single day, event or person.
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A good selection of photos for each month could include: a photo of your kids’ first day back at school; a soccer grandfinal moment; a group shot from a BBQ with neighbours; a close up of your grandmother’s birthday cake; your puppy’s first trip to the park; and the sunset you captured on the hottest day of the year. This tells us a bit about everyone.
Now to lay them out in the software:
- Download the Yearbook Quickbook via the Updater Panel in the Momento software
- Start a new Photobook then choose the Yearbook icon in Themed Quickbook layout options
- Choose your preferred shape and size then you’ll arrive at Layout View
- You’ll find a series of 120 predesigned pages with 10 pages for every month
- The grey placeholders are ready for you to simply drop your photos into
- Drag your photos from the Photo Panel on the left into the grey placeholders
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Design tips
- It works best if you drop landscape shaped photos into landscape shaped placeholders
- Add or delete photos or pages as you please, the Quickbook is just a good starting point
- Change the font by clicking on the text box and choosing a different font from the list
- Don’t forget to add a date to the cover, title page and spine text for easy identification!
When you’re done, export your book and make sure you thoroughly check your PROOF.PDF before uploading your MASTER.MBF and placing your order.
If you're a prolific happy snapper and very organised you can also apply the theory above to monthbooks starring the every day and special moments from every week.
Most importantly, have fun designing your photo book and it many times over with family and friends.
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