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Make it a Wedding Planner, Vacation Planner, School Year Calendar and Organizer
No need to follow the traditional calendar year when you create a personal photo day planner on Lifephoto.com. Begin your year with any important date — or start it a year ahead of an important date. Wedding day planners make wonderful gifts for the bride-to-be! Fill your planner with memorable photos.
- Wedding Day. How cool to give your fiance, daughter or future daughter-in-law a day planner that begins on the wedding day! Or a daily planner for the wedding that begins one year before the wedding!
- Back-to-School Planner. Begin your daily photo planner in July or August and build it around the important dates of the school year. Great gift for teachers. Handy for moms and high school or college students.
- Valentine’s Day. How about giving your sweetheart a custom day planner that begins on Valentine’s Day — with photos of fun times together throughout!
- Birthday. How appropriate to give someone a photo day planner that begins on the date they were born. Show them how important that day was to both of you!
- Anniversary. Even though you’ve been married awhile, give your spouse a photo day planner of your lives together — that begins on the date your were married. How romantic!
A custom day planner is easy and quick to make on lifephoto.com.
Add notes on special dates, reminders, personal messages of love. Be creative. Have fun. Photo day planners are available in two sizes with 13 to 54 images — you decide. That special person will love it! Great for Christmas gifts, too!
A 12″x18″ photo poster makes a great gift, too!
Have a few terrific photos you’d like to have blown up and framed?
Maybe for your own wall. Maybe for gifts? It’s easy to do and relatively inexpensive.
Upload Your Pictures to Lifephoto.com
It will only take you a minute or two to upload your photo, select the poster size you want and order. Add a caption if you like as I did in this photo of a Great Blue Heron that I took last year in my backyard. Read my original post about creating this personalized-sized poster.
Add an inexpensive mat that brings out one of the subtle colors in your photo. Then an inexpensive frame and you’ve got a beautiful framed photo.
Start thinking about photos you’d like to see blown up and framed. Then upload them to lifephoto.com for high quality, value and personalized service.
Some tips for making a great Recipe Photo Book!
You’ve got the idea that it would be fun to make a recipe book. 
One that’s filled with photos of the finished dishes. Or maybe including photos of the cooking or baking process. Who’s recipes will you use? How will you print and share the finished recipe book? Here are some tips for planning your book and for taking great food photos, as well.
Planning a Recipe Photo Book
Decide on a theme:
- Mom’s Home Cooking
- Grandma’s Famous Cakes
- Cookies That Kids Can Bake
- A Salute to the Great Cooks in My Family
Whatever your theme, be sure you can offer accurate recipes with easy-to-follow directions. Help your readers be successful in making those great dishes! So that means you’ll need to proofread your recipes and then have someone else proof again just to be sure.
Take lots of photos:
Every recipe book is better when it includes photos of the finished dish. Here is a post that will give you some guidelines for taking those photos.
But why not take photos of the cooking process and/or the ingredients the reader will have to assemble before starting? Ree Drummond of The Pioneer Woman does a terrific job of photographing the steps to her recipes. If you make one of her dishes, it is so helpful to have those photos to guide you along the way. Check out her site for examples of how you might do the same thing in your recipe book. By the way, I’ve made some of her recipes and they are always terrific!
Start Making Your Recipe Book Online
Begin by uploading your photos to your own photo folder on Lifephoto.com. If you register, your photo folders and projects remain there for you to return to as often as you wish. So you can make your book as you have time.
If you want your actual recipes to have a special look or design, you might consider putting them into a PhotoShop file and uploading your recipes as .jpegs. Then you can easily place them just like you would a photo. But you do have the option of typing them right on to the photo book page.
Remember the Birthday Fun
Do you have tons of pictures you took at your child’s last birthday party?
Gather them up to put into a birthday photo book. Just upload them to lifephoto.com — you can set up your own birthday book photo folder there at no cost.
At $6.95 for a 20-page softcover 6″ x 4″ photo book, it’s easy to make one for each child’s birthday. And these books will be a memory that will last forever. Here are some of the options:
- 7 books sizes
- Hardcover or softcover
- 4 paper stock choices
- Lots of birthday backgrounds to use (or not)
- 2-4 photos will easily fit on a page
- Many photo arrangement choices
- Full flexibility for photo placement, captions and text
Fast, Easy and Inexpensive Photo Books for Every Birthday
Get started now and surprise your child. Better yet, send one to Grandma and Grandpa, too.
PHOTO SHARING NOTE: Don’t forget — you can share your birthday photo book and your digital photo album by e-mail, on Facebook, Twitter or a blog.
Tweet this post or share it on Facebook.
A Personal Photo Book Really Says “I Love You”
Planning to ask her to marry you on Valentine’s Day?
Here’s a terrific idea that shows your love in photos and personal messages as photo captions.
Fast. Easy. Inexpensive. Incredibly Thoughtful.
Simply upload your favorite photos of her that recall all the great times you have shared together. Add some photos of both of you having fun.
Photo Ideas and a Link to the Full Photo Book: continue reading








lifephoto.com. Make one for your home or to give as a gift to someone special. Your photo image takes on the look of a fine oil painting and actually wraps around the frame — viewable from the sides as well as the front of the frame. Here are a few ideas for photo subjects: