Family History PhotoBook
Tell life stories with photos
Photos tell a story, and Photo Books make wonderful records of family histories. Unlike traditional photo albums and photo scrapbooks, Photo Books can be easily replicated – create one and if you’re pleased with it order additional copies. Not all pages have to include photos – including text will allow the book to tell it’s own story in the absence of the creator, just as journaling does in a Photo Scrapbook.
Family History Book Ideas
• Create a book of your own personal history. Include your baby pictures and childhood stories.
• Interview an aging relative. Work with them to create the book. Have them write a personal note, include this in the book (scan it or photograph it).
• Gather your old family photos and slides and have us digitise them then create a family heirloom to share with your own family. Purchase additional copies for other family members. Give as gifts.
• Include personal histories, family stories, and genealogical data in the book.
• Include photographs or scans of personal possessions, handwriting, certificates, letters, and other important documents. These will all make the book more personal.
How do you create this keepsake?
• Sort out your photos and memorabilia and bring in to us
• We will digitise any non-digital photos.
• Well show you how easy it is to create your own book on our kiosks.
• We then print the book on-site. It will be ready in one-hour or less.
How to add text
• Scan or photograph handwritten notes
• Type in photo editing program and save as jpeg
• Type in MS Publisher and save as jpeg
• Type directly onto photo book pages – slow as our kiosks are touch screen and can only be touched in one place at a time
Save time by preparing at home
If you are creative and want unique layouts use Publisher, Photoshop, or another page layout program to lay out your pages at home, save each as a single jpg file and then print a PhotoBook with one image per page.
Set up the page to the dimensions of the book style you prefer—our album pages are 8.5"x11" (landscape), 11"x8.5" (portrait) and 12"x12" (square).
For each page add your images, crop, resize, add text, add embellishments. When you’re happy with the page layout save that page as a 300 dpi jpg file
Photo Requirements
How many photos can you have?
Up to 270 photos can be reproduced in a 12x12 inch book or 378 in am 8½x11 inch book. This includes poems, letters, awards, and text boxes.
Digital Photos
These can be supplied to us on USB flash drives, CD, DVD, or any popular memory card. The number of images in a collage depends on the output size.
The kiosk allows you to sort your images by date taken or by file number ( useful when you want to specify the order). If you need to change the file number then renumber copies and use three digits (e.g. 001.jpg not 1.jpg).
Non-digital photographs
We can scan photographs, slides and large negatives to convert them to digital and return the originals to you. We can also scan anything on paper up to A4 such as poems, letters, awards, etc.
We have a bulk photo scanner for photographs that can be removed from albums - this reduces the price of scans
Bulk scanner requirements
1. Remove all photos from albums and frames.
2. Make sure there are no staples, paper clips, tape, paper or adhesive attached to photos that will damage the high-speed scanner. If any of these are attached the photos will be scanned as non-conforming photos (note 4)
3. Photos must be between 3x4” and 8x12”.
4. Non-conforming photos: fragile or damaged photos as well as mounted or thick may not feed through our automated equipment. Neither will photos less than 3x4” (6x9cm) and those with adhesive on the back. These will take longer to scan as we need to do it manually and they will incur a surcharge.
5. If you want photos placed in the book in chronological order then the originals must be clearly numbered—write lightly in a soft lead pencil or CD pen on the back of each photograph. Make sure our staff knows they are pre-sorted chronologically so we can name the files we create accordingly.