Photobooks and Annoying Software

I have been wanting to create photobooks for months and just couldn't figure out how or which way I wanted to do it. My previous life was as a graphic designer so my program of choice to create these books was InDesign, but I wanted the fun backgrounds, shapes and text that comes with photobook software. So I broke down and purchase a program without trying it, knowing that I would probably hate it, but at least I would get all the shapes that came with it.

Today the program arrived and as I predicted, I was fumbling with the program and thinking of how to create these books when I just knew in my heart I need to use InDesign. It is just second nature for me to create in that program instead of fumbling around and trying to figure out something new. But hey I didn't waste my money, I am going to use all the clip art I got and it is all high resolution since the program was designed for print. So all is not wasted.

So after getting this software and hating it I had no more excuses to not design. Besides it is Erik's birthday on Sunday and what better excuse than to create a book about Erik's second year while it is ending. Last Friday when I had Kate here I sorted through all the pictures and figured out the potential for all the pages I would create for Erik's book. So tonight it was ready for me and all I had to do was create the design and plug in some images. Sound easy right?

Well here are the first couple pages of Erik's book and I am liking how it is turning out. After this I can't wait to go back and create book for the first years of Erik and Elliot's life. I blogged in such detail it will be fun to pull from those years and create a permanent book. Can you tell I am excited for this project?

Here is a sneak preview of the first four pages I created. Keep in mind this book is just about Erik. Books on Elliot to come. I have 5 year to cover between the two of them!!

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