Have been busy the past 3 weeks working on an album of the beach trip my dad & I made with his brother, sister-in-law & their family (17 of us in all) back in July. Ended up being 98 pages using over 250 photos. Whew!
I'm the type who likes to include who/what/where/when for each photo, but since the whole week was in one place (with one section being in a different place for cousins who went parasailing), I had to figure a way to not repeat myself next to each photo. Decided to take one pic for each day (almost all from the actual day I was featuring), fade it back & then put a color coordinating strip along the bottom with the where/when info since it applied to every photo on the page. Kept the background & color strip the same for all pages for that day.
Dave, if you were impressed by the one digital album you saw earlier this year, wait till you see some of the new Photoshop tricks I figured out for this album. Learned to play with text (shape, texture, mixed colors), added fun fonts (thanks to whomever posted the nifty teacher's font website a few weeks ago -- waah! just checked & the site's not available; sure hope that's temporary!), figured out hot to export the text with a clear background so the faded background of my page shows thru & even did the same with a couple of photos (might have done more if I'd had time).
Shipped it off on Thursday & my cousin called yesterday to say it had arrived & was being looked at by my aunt, who I was mostly doing it for.
This album was the most digital of any of my 11 albums. Of course, the file that I print from is digital, but with the first 8 albums, at least, all the photos were originally prints which I scanned. For this album, 80% of the photos were digital to begin with. The quality could've been better in some cases, but altogether not bad.
Still have a few pics I'd like to make look better (color correction on those didn't work as planned), but am glad to have "round one" done. Whew!
Alicia