First photobook of my wedding pictures

[rodent]

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Originally Posted by msam007562 Girl, you are def. on the ball and on top of your shit! I can't believe you put all this together so quickly, everything looks so freaking good What program did you use? I LOVE the layout, it looks so professional like albums the photographer would make, but everything is so much better because you've personalized it. You seriously need to flip your talents into a career, or at least a sideline gig, you're stuff always looks so nice! And, I echo the sentiment that looking at beautiful pictures never gets tiring, it just makes me more excited about my own wedding day!!

Thanks! I used Lumapix fotofusion. You can get a free trial on their website (not for macs though).

I was really surprised how fast I got it together. It usually takes me much longer to make a book. I think I spent about 3 hours on it last night. The final versions will take much longer, especially the one I make for us to keep.

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Originally Posted by Kristie Ottinger wow morgan, thats really pretty, who took those pics? i love em! so are you gonna make an R rated version too? because those sexy sexy pics are the bombest! i got the chills when i saw the "two step" page...awww Dave. what a beautiful 3 days. i cant believe im heading back for another round the day after tomorrow. adios amiga! thanks for the memories and the referrals xoxo oh and i love the shot of our sexy legs! thats was fun! its so wonderful to see it all come together like this in an album made by you.

just a PG-13 version Our book will probably have 40 pages. There are so many great pictures I had to leave out of this book. I can't believe how many "favorites" I have.

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Originally Posted by NewOrleansbride Morgan, your wedding looked so perfect! And you have the best photos I have ever seen, by far!! It all looks gorgeous!

Thank you!! That is a huge compliment!

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Originally Posted by cja1976 Wow those pictures (book) came out great. How did you do that so fast?? You really don't waste time. Great job.

I had the quotes ready to go & a layout in mind. I was sketching it out on the flight home. The first photobook I made in lumapix took me about 20 hours. It's getting a lot easier. I also did so many repeptitive layouts so i was able to just drag & drop in the new pictures. I plan on spicing things up for v2.0

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Originally Posted by Kristie Ottinger WOW! i know that was to morgan but thanks...thats was really great to read. especially after today, morgan knows...thank you!!!

glad you saw that. you are amazing!!

[rodent]

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Originally Posted by ErinB Morgan! You are far surpassing me as a June 21 bride!!! I still need to post my review and pictures! I have no idea where you find the time. On a side note, be happy you are having a casual AHR. Mine has turned into a BFW as Abbie would say. You photos are stunning and I won't ever get tired of looking at them. I love the underwater TTD! Kristie - great job! I like the use of the quotes and lyrics. I might have to steal that idea!

steal away. I got the inspiration from another BDW bride. Those were the songs we had playing after the ceremony when we were toasting. They were still on while mike & i were taking pictures near the site.

the rest of the text is from our ceremony. I need to add our vows. I just don't have them typed up. And maybe a few quotes.

[laybar]

LOVe the photo book.. did you do it yourself?? The layout is awesome & looks professionally done! Good job!

[rodent]

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Originally Posted by laybar LOVe the photo book.. did you do it yourself?? The layout is awesome & looks professionally done! Good job!

thanks! yes, I made it last night.

[Bride010101]

As always - great job!!! Your book is amazing and I can't believe it only took you 3 hours! : )

[Spazz]

Morgan, I love your pics and you're so talented making your photobooks...it looks so great!

[SunBride]

Awesome job.

 

So with lumapix is it just a drag and drop your photos in (like my publisher?) or do you completely create your own page? How easy is it to do the superimposed photo (big photo in the background with a few photos on top)? Also do you order the book from them, if not, who?

 

I used my publisher for our families' books but I still haven't started on our book because I want to customize the pages more than I was able to with my publisher, and I figure it will take me forever. But you have given me hope!

 

I LOVE the use of all the quotes and wording from your ceremony. It adds SO SO much. I was just going to put our vows and nothing else, because normally I find quote overload (i.e. using more than one or two quotes) to be cheasy, but I love how you used the songs from your wedding day. I'm gonna steal the "Celebrate we will becuase Life is short but sweet for certain" quote because it's so perfect and we are big DMB fans. Other than that I'll look at our wedding day songs and see what else I can pull out.

 

THANKS for the inspiration!!!

[Betsy]

Morgan you have some awesome talent girl! Those look amazing! Kristie did a beautiful job with the two of you and your photo books are absolutely stunning! I love love love them!

Glad to hear your AHR is back on! That was super nice of Mike's mom!

[jmiranda]

Wow Morgan you did a really nice job on the photobook it looks so professional well all of your stuff has come out really good. I love how you personalized it.

[rodent]

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Originally Posted by SunBride Awesome job. So with lumapix is it just a drag and drop your photos in (like my publisher?) or do you completely create your own page? How easy is it to do the superimposed photo (big photo in the background with a few photos on top)? Also do you order the book from them, if not, who? I used my publisher for our families' books but I still haven't started on our book because I want to customize the pages more than I was able to with my publisher, and I figure it will take me forever. But you have given me hope! I LOVE the use of all the quotes and wording from your ceremony. It adds SO SO much. I was just going to put our vows and nothing else, because normally I find quote overload (i.e. using more than one or two quotes) to be cheasy, but I love how you used the songs from your wedding day. I'm gonna steal the "Celebrate we will becuase Life is short but sweet for certain" quote because it's so perfect and we are big DMB fans. Other than that I'll look at our wedding day songs and see what else I can pull out. THANKS for the inspiration!!!

lumapix is only for making the pages. then you export them as jpgs & upload them to any website. I'm uploading my families into shutterfly or snapfish. i have a bunch of free book codes. for my book i might do asuka books or something a little nicer.

i do find it really hard to find quotes that suite me. but, there are so many song lyrics that really do reflect my feelings.

lumapix is so easy once you get the hang of it. you should download the free trial. sarah made a tutorial thread. you just drag & drop in your pictures & then size them how you want. it's very easy to put the big picture in the back. you just say "set as canvas background." Now that I've worked with lumapix, I can not stand being stuck with templates.

You can get by with the basic $40 version for most stuff. You just cant export over 2000 pixels for your biggest side. But, I even made a 12x12 book using the basic version & just kept the resolution lower than ideal. It still looked very nice.

I went ahead & paid the extra to upgrade to the next version because I use the program so much.

hope that made sense. it is the kind of program you can just pick up & play with and learn as you go.