How To Add Pictures To Your Photo Book Project

How To Add Pictures To Your Photo Book Project Using Desktop designer

VIDEO DESCRIPTION

In this video, we show you how to add photos to your photo book project using our easy online designer. Learn how to upload, organise, and drag and drop your images into layouts plus avoid common mistakes that could disrupt your project later. Whether you're creating a gift or capturing memories, these simple steps will help you design like a pro.

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What you’ll learn:
✔️ Choosing your photo book size and page count
✔️ Naming your project and getting started
✔️ Uploading individual photos or full folders
✔️ Avoiding missing photo errors when switching devices
✔️ Dragging and dropping images into picture boxes
✔️ Cropping, resizing, and editing images
✔️ Adding and customising your own picture boxes
✔️ Saving your page styles for future use
✔️ Enhancing pages with backgrounds, borders, shapes, and shadows

This tutorial is perfect for anyone starting their first photo book or looking to level up their designs. Watch now and start bringing your memories to life!
Check out our other tutorials for more helpful tips.

Click here Introduction

Click here Adding Pictures Folder

Click here Adding Pictures to Picture Box

Click here Editing Page Layout

Click here Save Your Page Style

Click here Page Style Templates

Click here Extra Features

TRANSCRIPT

Today, we're gonna do a video and show you how to add pictures into your project. We're gonna go through this part a little bit quickly. So if you need to see it slower, please view our previous video, understanding the software. So we're gonna start off by selecting our photo book size and how many pages we would like. Right now we're gonna go to the editor. We're gonna name our project. And then once we hit continue, the, project will open. K. So now that the designer has opened up, so you can see here we've got our cover, and then we've got all our pages up the top here. So the pages already have, picture boxes laid out based on the, terrazzo collection that we have selected. But you can add or delete these and change them around as you're working through your photo book. So to start with adding pictures, you would select this plus icon here. So you can either choose to add individual pictures or a folder of pictures. We always recommend collating all your photos first before you begin your project and adding them all to a folder. It just makes it easier to upload a whole folder of pictures. But also if you're needing to change computers later on in the future, it's just easier to move a whole folder of pictures around rather than individual pictures as well. So if we select add folder now, a key, tip to remember. So we always reference the original, location of your, your folders, your pictures. So when you, upload your photos to your project, don't move the folder from its original location. Because if you close the program and then you go to work on it at a later stage, if you've moved the folder from its original location, the software won't know where the folder's gone and where the pictures have, moved to. So if you do move a folder, you'll receive a little, missing missing photos error appear on the software. So always try and keep the folder in its original new location. Same thing if you go to reorder the project later on down the track, if you want a second copy and you've moved your photos, same thing, you will receive a, missing photos error pop up. So always just keep the folder in its original location unless you really really need to move the folders. We also don't delete your projects from the software. So you can take as long as you like to work on your photo book. Just remember to continue to save your projects as you're working through your book. So now that we've added our pictures you will see that they will all appear on the side here. So to add your picture into your picture box you would simply just drag and drop the picture. We always recommend, laying out all your picture boxes first and then just dragging and dropping the picture straight into the picture box. That way you don't have to sit there restretching and resizing the photo. So now if you would like to crop or edit the photo, you would double click on the picture box and you will see that there's a picture box here. So you can move the picture box around, you can zoom as small or as big as you would like it, to position your photo. So once you're happy with your positioning and your cropping, you would select okay. So whatever you see up here in this picture box is what's actually going to appear on your page. So same thing again, if you'd like to zoom in you can get closer and hit okay. So you just pretty much just work through your book. If there's a particular, page style that you don't like, you can delete a picture box, so you can just, select the picture box and hit delete. We have this add picture box icon here, so if you'd like to add your own picture boxes you can just select add picture box and then you can drag the picture box around and add it to the page wherever you would like. So we'll do four that way. So you can make, if you click onto the picture box you can drag it and make the picture box as big or small as you like as well. So if there is a particular page style that you create, that you like and you would want to use, on multiple pages, if you come down here and click on this little drop down menu here so you can save your page style. So if we click save our left hand page, new page style and hit okay. You will see it appear down the bottom here. So if you want to use it on multiple pages, so if you want to use it on multiple pages you can just drag and drop it straight onto the page or if you right click on the star on the page style down the bottom here, you can select to assign it to all the pages or the left hand side or the right hand side. So we'll select all right hand pages today and then you'll see it appear up the top here. So then all you got to do is just simply drag your pictures and drop straight into the picture box. So we do have some more page styles down the bottom here so if you just scroll through you'll see that there's various page styles that you can choose from if there's something else that you would like. There's also different backgrounds that you can use as well. So these are all the page styles with the same type of background or you've got other backgrounds that you can use as well. There's also other there's like masks and backgrounds and frames and scrapbook images that you can use onto your book as well. You just would just drag and drop it straight onto the page. If you would like to add any borders on the pages, so we've got all these little, extra features up the top here. We go through all this in the previous video, understanding the software, but I'll just quickly show you a couple that you can add to your picture box. So you see so you can add a shape. You can change the shape of the picture box as well. So you can make it a circle picture box or triangle so you can change all the shapes around to the picture boxes. You can add a border to the picture box as well so you can make the border as thin or thick as you like. You can also change the color of the border. So these are our basic colors but if you click on other you can also come to our color picker as well. So you can choose a particular color that you like and go add to custom and then you'll see it appear down the bottom there as well. You can add shadows as well to the picture box so you can make the shadow as big or small as you like, you can angle the shadow at a different angle. Again, you can change the color of the shadow as well. So there's lots of little, little things that you can do to make the photo book yours and customize it to your liking. So that's just a basic, a quick video on how to, add pictures to your project. If you'd like to see how to add text boxes to your project, please see our next video. Thank you.

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