Make Your Own Photo Book - Making Wedding Photo Books
May 21, 2009 21:22
A wedding is a once in a lifetime event so your photographs and their presentation are incredibly important. A wedding photo book will become a treasured possession containing all the wonderful memories of that very special day in your life.
Photo books are a beautiful and dramatic way to show off your wedding photos that will preserve them for perfectly for the future. You can design your own wedding photo book using easy to use, free software and create beautiful pages with different layouts, backgrounds and text. The final product looks just like a photo book that you would buy in a book store, instead of your photos being stuck on the page or placed in pockets as in a regular photo album.
Although it is reasonably inexpensive to make a regular photo book, for a wedding photo book, you might want to choose a photo book publisher who offers extra special bindings, covers and papers and maybe even special decorative features like stamped text on the cover and silver or gold gilt page edges. This will be more expensive than a regular photo book, but it will be worth it to show off your photos in as beautiful and unique a setting as possible.
Your wedding photographer may offer to present your photographs as a photo book for you, but it is worth considering designing your own book from his professional photographs. If you make your own book, you can tell the story of your wedding day from yours and your spouse-to-be's special and unique perspective. Work with your photographer to get more candid shots and 'behind the scenes' shots, like the bride's preparations etc in addition to group, couple and single posed photos. This way you can remember those moments that were truly your own and precious to the two of you.
For a wedding photo book, you should look for a large 'coffee table' book size for a more dramatic result. You can choose from a variety of covers, including leather or velvet with metallic stamped lettering. Another great option for a wedding photo book is a 'perfect bound' lay-flat binding. When your book is bound this way, the pages will lay completely flat when the book is laid open on a table for example. This eliminates the curving of the pages near the spine that you get with a standard binding method like gluing or sewing. This avoids the distorting of the photographs that you get as a result of the curving of the pages and creates a dramatic effect.
Visit this web site to see reviews of photo book publishers who offer these special design options and see beautiful sample wedding photo books for inspiration.
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Emma Knight loves to create beautiful photo books and enjoys introducing the idea of creating photo books to others so that they can have the pleasure of creating something that they can enjoy and share for years to come. Visit her web site for more ideas at http://www.makeyourphotobook.com
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