Photobook is a modern printed photo album. Each page of such an album contains photographs, wallpapers and text. You can arrange the design of a photobook yourself by choosing photographs and elements to your taste. This requires the use of special programs - graphic editors.
Choosing a program for creating a photobook
A photobook is more than a photo album. It conveys the mood, impressions, reflects the story captured in photographs and supplemented with drawings, patterns, scraps of phrases. A photo book can be produced in an expensive binding, on high-quality paper and in any available format.
The photobook does not have to be used as a personal photo album. It can be a corporate book or a chronicle of historical events of the city in photographs. The applications are endless. Nowadays wedding photo books are very fashionable.
Many printers offer photo book production services. Most photo studios can also design and layout it. However, a designer will never be able to convey your feelings through printed pages the way you can. Indeed, in order for the book to come to life, you need to put your soul into it. Then there will never be two identical books.
It's actually not that hard to create a photo book yourself. There are many graphic editors to create it. They differ in functionality, interface, cost, the presence of Internet communities and technical support services.
The program interface refers to all the means and methods of human interaction with this program, used both for entering information and for receiving processed data.
Of course, your choice should be made in favor of the program with the lowest cost with the greatest functionality and simplicity of the interface. However, if you are just mastering the art of design, then you do not need the widely presented capabilities of graphic editors.
Pay attention to the intuitive interface, large library of templates and low cost. You can even start with the free version of the photo book maker.
In addition to all the other advantages of self-creation of a photobook, one more is worth noting. You can not order its production in paper form, but store it in electronic form and send it to your friends and relatives by e-mail.
Popular graphic editors
There are several popular photobook software.
HP Photo Creations is a graphic editor that allows you to change the design of a photobook, calendar, collage, postcard. The editor uses over 1800 high quality art samples, 1300 graphic segments, fields using text, frames, editing tools.
Scrapbook Flair - Developed by Aurora Digital Imaging. Due to its simplicity, it is ideal for novice users. The program is offered free of charge, supported by the Scrapbookflair online community. You can also use templates, textures and other elements to decorate your photobook.
Wondershare Photo Collage is a simple, powerful editor for creating photo collages and albums. The program has templates, cliparts, photo frames.
Cliparts are graphic design elements. Used when creating design projects. They can be represented as separate objects or as whole images.
Adobe Photoshop is a very good professional-grade graphics editor. Perhaps its only drawbacks include too large amount of occupied space on the hard disk and the interface that is difficult for beginners to understand (requires additional time to study).
Not all programs are equally compatible with different operating systems. The above graphic editors work in Windows. At the same time, Apple iPhoto runs on Mac OS.
