I was looking at my phone over Christmas, and realising how many apps I use on a regular basis – once I’d extended that thinking to Macbook apps and a few core websites, this is 150+. I decided I’d play around with a short blog-post on each tool, thinking about what each is good for, and which I’d like to make more use of … there’s always more to learn about everything that’s available online.
Bonusprint has moved on from photo-processing, and last Christmas (noting a theme here), I decided to make a photobook for each year – funny as I’ve been digitising all my other paper-based content – but I’ve always been a bit of a scrapbooker. Checking on MoneySaving Expert, I found that I could get a large, 100 page, hardback photobook for £19, so went ahead rather tentatively with a photobook for 2007. A year later, and the photobook for 2015 is made and on its way to me, including the following pages:
The quality for the photobooks is decent – I’ve describe it as being similar to, but bit better than, an annual! The books do take a surprisingly long time to make – picking the photos from the many that I’ve taken to make the most of the 100 pages that are available (you can pay for extra pages, but still, it’s a good discipline) – you can put anything from 1 to quite a lot of photos on each page, but obviously the more = the smaller they are! You can add text, and in fact anything that you can produce as an image (e.g. a JPeg file) can be inserted into these books, and once in, can be drag and dropped around. There are various layouts provided, but you can over-ride these. For the first few photobooks I used the software that means that you are working directly online (meaning that I have a couple of stray photos popping up on the wrong pages/upside down), then took advantage of the option to download an app and work offline on my laptop – much faster … just leave plenty of time to upload the finished product, then wait a couple of weeks for it to arrive. I’ll be back to do another one for 2016!
Can’t believe that I’ve only just found out that you were on the One Show!
Ha! It was a fun afternoon/evening! I got a rather fuzzy screencapture here – https://youtu.be/MJEcbTXyTwI – BBC News the next morning sent me a much better quality clip of theirs – https://youtu.be/Qn4Gv60aaQU!
You seem to be getting the hang of this media thing 🙂
It’s fun 🙂