Making digital photo books

“Now comes the fun part (heh heh. Not really). Within the Photos App, I edit each image within this new folder as needed. My editing process typically consists of sharpening & brightening the image and adjusting the white balance. The amount of editing you’ll have to complete during this step will vary from project to project. Since the natatorium where he swam didn’t have the best lighting, I had to manually correct almost every image.”

“Once all of your images are uploaded, this is where it begins to get exciting! I like to “begin at the beginning” and design my album cover first (which is always the meet logo for these championship swim meet albums). The theme that I chose for this album (Bold White) comes with a pre-formatted layout for each page; however, I rarely use the pre-formatted layout. Instead, I like to create a custom design for each page, based on the number of photos I want to use on the page.”

“Over the course of our 4 days at the MegaZones meet, you can see that I took 458 photos. The next step in the process is to whittle that number down and select only the “best of the best” to use in my photo book. [...] During this stage of the process, my goal was to reduce the number of images to approximately 80-100, which I’ve found to be a manageable number when creating a digital photo book. I didn’t quite reach my goal in this instance, but 104 is much better than 458!”