Photo Books Make Great Christmas Gifts
October 5, 2009 by Katelyn Thomas
Filed under Home & Living
I got a chance to make a photo book for the price of shipping through Walgreens.com the other day for friending Walgreens on Facebook. (Is it just me or is it weird that all these companies suddenly want to be my friend? I think this is my 10th friend that is an entity instead of a person. I guess it is a cheap way to reach targeted customers.) Anyway, it ended up costing me $2 for a very nice little 20 page book. I am not saving it until Christmas, because I can’t stand to wait that long to give it to the intended recipient, so I think it is safe to tell you about it.
Photo via walgreens.com
I was able to create a book filled with pictures and journaling about a baby’s first day on earth. I changed some photos to black and white, switched sizes, switched out the number of photos on some of the different pages and left one page blank for journaling. I am so happy with the way it turned out that I started thinking about other events that would make good photo books for Christmas:
- Scouting memories
- Best wedding moments
- Mommy and me, daddy and me, or grandparent and me books
- Memorial book filled with special memories and stories
- Car restoration, new home construction or any other large project journal
Have you ever given a photo book to someone as a Christmas gift?
I’ve made a photo book, a photo day planner and a few other photo gift items. Love them — they’re very personal as a gift and can be quite creative. But I am always concerned about the quality — will the photos stay crisp and bright and true to color over the years — after all, this is something the person will keep and pass down as a photo memory book.
Have you looked at lifephoto.com? They offer great photo books and other photo products. Customer care and professional processing quality are the differences I have found. Lifephoto is the consumer division of a professional photography processing lab — this is where top pro photographers (wedding, portrait, etc.) send their work to be carefully processed into everything from photo books to prints to huge portraits for framing. They use top quality presses and inks, along with the best Kodak paper to provide the truest colors and clarity. That means these photo products will last a long, long time. That’s what professional photographers demand. That’s what I want when I create something as special as a photo book. Take a look at them and see what you think.