Photo Books - Create, Design, Share.

Introducing Photobook Express, a fun way to preserve and present your cherished photo memories in an elegant manner. Creating your very own customized photo books has never been easier!

Photobook Express offers a wide array of tools and features to design and enhance your project, including:

- Individual page layout
- Templates - applied to complete book
- Picture borders
- Page backgrounds
- Resizable picture frames
- Easy picture distribution
- Drag & drop placement of design elements

- Flexible placement of pictures or snap-to-grid
- Picture cropping, resizing & rotation
- Drag & drop placement of pictures
- Fading control of pictures and backgrounds
- B&W and sepia filters
- Captions - anywhere

Please make a selection below:

How to create a photo book
Pages Browser
Two-page spreads
Removing & duplicating frames/pictures

How to create a photo book

Click the Photobook Express desktop shortcut.

Click on Photobook

Start a new book by selecting Create New

Now, choose a size for your photo book (A5,11x8.5 portrait, and 8.5x11 landscape).

Once you have picked your book size you need to press Start Empty Book or you can select Easy Photo Book Wizard (these are preset templates/themes)

You should now see the Photo Book workspace. Use the Image Browser at the bottom of the workspace to load pictures to use for your photo book. To do so:

- Click the Add Picture (+) or Add Folder (++) (of pictures) icon at the left of the Image Browser. You can then drag & drop pictures directly from the Image Browser and onto your photo book pages.

- If you are using layouts or templates, you can use the Distribute Pictures command (under the Layout menu) to automatically distribute your pictures amongst the pages.

Toggle between the various page display options seen as tabs on the Image Browser:

- Page Layouts - preset arrangements of picture-ready picture frames. Once applied to a page, you can still rearrange the layout elements any way you choose. You can Tilt and resize aswell. You can also apply a Picture Shape to these layouts.

- Page Backgrounds - various colors, textures, and designs you can apply to your pages. You can also apply your very own image as a background. Backgrounds can be set to fade as well. Please note that not all backgrounds are available offline.

- Picture Borders - borders of various color and thickness you can apply to pictures. You can multilayer these boarders and don't forget that you can also select from the top right hand dropdown list the following; Line, Frame, Corners, Brushes and Ornaments.

- Templates - themes that can be applied to your entire photo book. Once applied to a page, you can still rearrange the template elements any way you choose.

Picture Shapes - shapes that you can use to frame your image. You can add Line boarders and Ornament boarders on top.

ClipArt - these can be used to Jazz up your pages or give you the look of a scrapbook page. Our selection includes images of flowers, holiday, kids, letters, occasions, ornaments, travel and vacation.

Themes - if you decided that you would like to have a theme for your book we have a selection for you to choose from.

All of these items can be dragged & dropped directly onto a page (or frame, as the case may be).

Pages Browser

You can click and drag to reorder the pages of your photo book.

Photo Books Workspace.

Image Browser

To navigate the pages of your photo book, click the desired page in the Pages Browser. You can also navigate using the navigation arrows located on the toolbar.

When you're done designing your photo book, click the Send To DigiLabs button to upload your project to our production facilities.

Two-page spreads

Any of your pictures can be used as a background for a two-page spread. Just drag a picture from the Image Browser to a page (but not onto a frame), and when asked "Would you like your picture to be used as a background for a single page, or across a two-page spread?" click the Two-Page Spread button. You can also choose to fade your background if you right click your image, select Fade and then select the %.

NOTE: When using a picture for a two-page spread background remember that you can still move this image around your page to get the best possible image for your background, but you will loose the top and bottom of the image in a landscape book. Also, faces should be kept out of the gutter, as some of their fine details may be lost or distorted within the spine.

Creating a two-page spread

Note that when using a picture for a two-page spread background that you can still move this image around your pages to get the best possible crop for your background, but you will likely lose the top and bottom of the image in a landscape book. Also, faces should preferably be kept out of the gutter (where the pages join) as some of their fine details may be lost or distorted within the spine.

Fading your background

Black & White and Sepia filters

Aligning pictures