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12

Wanna see my Shutterfly Album??

Posted by DeAnna

I got my Shutterfly album of Kyle’s First Year a couple of weeks ago. I’m really happy with the quality of the album, but, now that I’ve done it, there’s a few things I would definitely do differently had I known before hand!

Because the album is book bound (see above), the inner margins are quite tight, so I would recommend making sure that you leave sufficient space so that elements don’t get lost in the margin. For example, my template is a 12×24 layout, so I would probably add guidelines at 11 ¾ inches, and 12 ¼ inches so I don’t put any photos, elements, or text in that space. On a couple of my layouts, you can’t see part of the year because it falls in the margin.

To make a guideline in Photoshop, just click anywhere in your rulers and drag into place. To create a vertical guideline, click on the vertical ruler to the left and drag across your screen; to create a horizontal guideline, click on the top ruler and drag down.

I would also make sure that if you download Shutterfly’s templates for the front cover, back cover, and spine, that you fill the entire canvas with your background, not just the space within the guidelines they provide for you. My album ended up with a strip of white at the top where my background didn’t reach.

The template should look like this:

Screen shot of front cover with guidelines

Overall though, it’s a great album, I’m so glad I did it, AND that I ordered a copy of it. I’m going to make a couple of changes to it and order a bunch more (Christmas presents, maybe???).

DeAnna

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