Creating a HeartBook

Heart Books: 1… 2 … 3 …

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Story/Subject: Organize Photos & Words 2.

Make Pages PhotoScape* 3.

Create Book Costco Photo Center and SHARE!

* DOWNLOAD: PC: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php MAC: download from App Store

Why create a Heart Book?

There are many reasons, most are similar to why you take photos:

to capture memories, explore the world, and leave a legacy.

While people of all ages make Heart Books,

they are particularly popular as people retire

and have more time available for projects …

and recognize that there is less time

left for un nished business.

In a memorable TED talk, EMT Matthew O’Reilly of Long Island talks about the three pieces of unfinished business most people have towards the end of their lives. https://www.ted.com/talks/matthew_o_reilly_am_i_dying_the_honest_answer 1. They have regrets and want to be forgiven.

2. They fear they’ll be forgotten and hope they’ll be remembered.

3. They want to know that their life had meaning.

Heart Books provide a way to be remembered through memorializing meaningful moments of your life.

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My rst Heart Book.

It took months, lled me with joy, but convinced me that there had to be a simpler way.

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Birthday message page

Back Cover

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Creating a Heart Book: the tools

Photo Editor/ Page Layout *

Your Photos

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Phone Computers Albums Framed on walls

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Crop, size, and enhance photos.

Create page layouts.

Publisher

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Assemble pages Print

*Simple and fun

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Creating a Heart Book: the process start

1. PLAN Story/Subject

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Organize photos.

Select subject, theme or story.

Create working title.

Choose book vendor & size.

Collect photos in a desktop folder.

Write brief descriptions for photos: names, dates, places, feelings, connections.

2. PREPARE Make Pages

• • • • •

Crop, size, and enhance photos.

Create page layouts.

Add words to page.

Sequence into 2-page spreads.

Create front & back covers.

3. PRODUCE Create Book

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Upload photos (pages) to Costco Photo Center.

• Preview and edit.

• Add page #s.

• Edit again.

• Order book.

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1. Plan — Organize Photos now thing k you ch a d i D s su ti ed a re w a Cer hoto e h t as ital P r?

Dig anize er.

Org neith Me

When you think about all your photos, do you feel delight … or guilt?

Most of us feel GUILT!

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1. Plan — Organize Photos Most common forms of photo storage: Phone Boxes

Note: these forms are hard to share and none of them are completely safe!

Albums

Walls

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1. Plan — Organize Photos - Get rid of guilt!

Step 1 - Play “Sort & Toss” Good photographers claim only 2-10% of their photos are “keepers.”

They discard the rest.

Identify & Digitize Keepers — toss the rest.

Sort & Toss Every time you upload photos, eliminate anything that doesn’t t your de nition of a keeper.

Sort into keeper categories:

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Years or Eras Family & Friends Travel Events & Milestones Pets Hobbies And so on

Kristy Holch, consumer technology analyst, says, ”Bad photos are just clutter that makes it harder to nd the good ones."

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1. Plan — Organize Photos - Get rid of guilt!

Step 2 - Bring all photos into ONE digital, backed-up environment ALL of your photos should be on your computer (whether it’s PC or MAC) and backed up to iCloud, Dropbox, Google Photos or other backup system.

You can also use external hardrives but I’ve never been comfortable relying on them.

Losing your photos would be heartbreaking!!!

Photos: digital or scanned

Your Computer MAC

iCloud Dropbox Google Photos Other ***

(Photos application)

Photos: digital or scanned

Your Computer PC (Folders or other software.)

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***Be sure to record your password where you can nd it.

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1. Plan — Organize Photos - Get rid of guilt!

Step 3 - Create Folders and Albums Most photos are shot in batches … at events, while traveling, or visiting with family & friends.

Think of these batches as albums within folders of months & years. *** Common organization format: Year, month, batch *** Examples: Folders 2019

2020

Albums

07 July

Beach vacation Joni wedding Garden remodel

09 Sept

Back to school Jim’s retirement Labor Day party

01 Jan

Evan’s birth Snow storm Ginny’s visit

While you don’t really need 01 and Jan, it makes it readily visible and alphabetizes properly.

(Without the 01, the system confuses 1 and 10.)

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1. Plan — Organize Photos - Get rid of guilt!

Step 3 - Tag common themes Tags are a powerful way to nd photos across batches (albums).

Most systems allow you to have as many tags as you want. That’s a plus and a minus.

Common tags: • People names • Places • Pets • Hobbies • Favorite subjects

Pitfalls: • Misspellings • Singular/plurals • Similar tags • Too many tags

*** Try to be consistent: It will make your searches easier. *** For instance … if you vacationed in Hawaii three di erent times, You might have three albums all named Hawaii …

One in folder 2018 11 Nov One in folder 2019 02 Feb and one in folder 2020 01 Jan However, you visited Kauai twice, Maui all three times, and Honolulu once.

If you created (and used) tags for Kauai, Maui, and Honolulu, it would make nding those speci c photos much easier.

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1. Plan — Story/Subject What story do you want to tell?

Why do you want to tell it?

Who will receive your book?

Steps:

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Choose a book subject or theme.

Create a working title.

Choose book vendor & size* Put photos in a desktop folder.

Write brief descriptions for photos: names, dates, places, feelings, connections. * for this tutorial, we’re assuming Costco Photo Center and an 8” x 8” softbound book.

Ideas:

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Family year highlights.

Vacation/travel.

Hobbies.

Photography/Artwork.

Milestones/Graduations.

Birthday books.

Generations/Family Tree.

Siblings.

Children’s artwork.

School days and classmates.

Expectant parents.

Baby book.

Weddings.

Family recipe books.

Family traditions and values.

Where you live.

Corporate Year Book.

Digital scrapbook.

Favorite photography subjects.

Big projects.

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1. Plan — Story/Subject Plan Example: What story do you want to tell? How beautiful Hawaii is and how much fun we had Why do you want to tell it? To remember it and share it with family Who will receive your book? Sarah & Sammy, George & Janet, Meemaw Subject or theme: trips to Hawaii - beauty & fun Working title: The Magic of Hawaii Book vendor & size: Costco Photo Center, 8” x 8” softbound Photo Organization: Folder: Hawaii Heart Book Albums: birds & owers, people, beaches, tours, dancing, etc.

Written descriptions: Matching le names help you nd photos and words

Example: Photo and description

Options for storing images & words: Evernote, One Note, or any other software that would allow you to drag and drop a photo into the le and then add description.)

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78-pages

local printer

yearly review

11 1/2” x 8 1/2”

softcover

Ted Takes is the 6th Heart Book created by Ted Coulson and given to friends and family.

Ted describes his process of creating this book:

“One of the fun challenges is selecting the images that will make the nal cut.”

He started out with over 5,000 photos, deemed 802 of them “keepers”

and 86 of them wound up in the book.

“I print those images in black and white and play with them until I’m satis ed

the story of the year’s adventures has been told.”

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Be YOU! Ted has an engaging sense of

humor and he lets it show in his book …

here he is having a discussion with himself.

Design notes: Ted is a photographer so he gives lots of space to his photos:

only one or two pictures per page.

Pages are numbered.

Minimal background design gives energy and consistency

without distracting from photos.

Several shots bleed across two pages, giving them more drama.

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Creating a Heart Book: the process next

2. PREPARE Make Pages

1. PLAN Story/Subject

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Organize photos.

Select subject, theme or story.

Create working title.

Choose book vendor & size.

Collect photos in a desktop folder.

Write brief descriptions for photos: names, dates, places, feelings, connections.

• • • • •

Crop, size, and enhance photos.

Create page layouts.

Add words to page.

Sequence into 2-page spreads.

Create front & back covers.

3. PRODUCE Create Book

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Upload photos (pages) to Costco Photo Center.

• Preview and edit.

• Add page #s.

• Edit again.

• Order book.

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Using Photoscape to make book-ready pages from images and words

Simple, intuitive photo editor and personal book page maker.

Steps: Photos cropped, sized, enhanced.

Plan sequence of images and words.

Create pages: images & words.

Sequence pages into 2-page spreads.

Create front & back covers.

Save each page image (photos and words) to a 300 dpi (dots per inch) jpg (jpeg) le to t your book page size

FREE version and a “Pro” version ($40).

You can make your rst book with the free version before you decide to buy it.

All of the following screen shots are from the FREE version on a MAC. PC screens may be slightly di erent. * DOWNLOAD PC: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php MAC: download from app store

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Viewer

Beginning with Photoscape Main Tool Bar (top) You will mainly use X

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Create a folder with name of your book on Desktop.

Put all the photos selected for your book here.

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Editor

Begin Editing Your Photos

Main Tool Bar (top)

Editor lets you enhance your photos in many ways.

You may want to play with all the options, however, we are only going to focus on four tools: * Crop * Resize * Border & Shape * Color

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Editor Crop

Cropping Your Photos Most interesting area

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Editor Crop

Cropping Your Photos

Cropped segment

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Editor Resize

Resizing Your Photos

For a quality image, photos need to be 300 dots per inch (dpi).

If your book is 8” x 8”, you need about 6 megapixels to have an excellent quality full page photo.

2 photos = about 2.5 MP each 3 photos = about 1.5 MP each 4 + = about 1 MP each

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Editor Resize

Resizing Your Photos

Consider: - desired size

on page

- shape

(aspect ratio)

Your book vendor

will warn you if

your photo

resolution is

too low.

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Editor Border & Shape

Choosing Borders and Shapes for Your Photos

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Editor Border & Shape

Choosing Borders and Shapes for Your Photos

Possibilities are endless.

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Editor Color

Changing Color on Your Photos

Color sliders

Shadows lightened

Hazard: Over saturated

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30-pages

Costco Photo Center

Theme: poem & trees

8” x 8”

Softcover

Created by Joyce Wyco for friends and family.

I wanted to honor trees and share a poem.

Each of the odd-numbered pages contains a stanza of the poem

and all the images are related to trees from various locations.

Because it isn’t obvious that the words on each page are part of a poem,

the last page shows the entire poem.

The book was given to friends and family as a

Solstice present.

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Design Notes: Images on each two-page spread are related in theme or in color.

Layout is one image per page with two panorama shots bleeding across

the 2-page spread.

Black background to give drama to photos, location text beneath

each image and several tree-related quotes added on even-numbered

pages for content depth.

First page dedication.

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Collage

Creating Your Pages Main Tool Bar (top)

Organize your photos and words onto pages … from 2 photos on a page to many.

(If there’s only 1 photo on a page, you will upload that directly to the vendor book creation site.

More about that later.)

This phase is all about playing until you’ve told your story in a way that is visually pleasing to you.

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Collage

Creating Your Pages … the tool bar size of the page … assumes an 8” x 8” page rounds the corners of photos space between photos page margin around photos color around photos # of photos on the page

layout variations for the # of photos on the page adding stickers, images or text save your page for uploading to your book vendor.

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Collage

2-photo page example with text and sticker —

Creating Your Pages - # of Photos

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busy, disconnected, not an example of good style, however, sometimes you might want humor.

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Creating Your Pages - # of Photos

3-photo page example of a collection

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Collage Creating Your Pages - # of Photos

4-photo page example of ower photos rounded with black background

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Creating Your Pages - # of Photos

5-photo page example of faces with patterned background Design Note: Multiple photo pages

can be e ective in

creating the feel of

an event, although

they tend to lack

the impact

of a single photo.

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Creating Your Pages - # of Photos

Note: Play with the

Sliders

until you like

the layout.

Example of a

2-photo layout

with rounded

corners and

spacing around

photos.

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2. Prepare — Prepare Photos & Make Book Pages Collage Creating Your Pages - # of Photos

Note: Adding words.

Also,

notice the

e ect of

changing

photo

position

and a slightly

di erent

crop.

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Saving your page

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30-pages

Costco Photo Center

Theme: Mexico murals

11 1/4” x 8 3/4”

Hardcover

co t s o 1st C ook tB r a e H

Created by Joyce Wyco to create a memory of Mexico

I wanted to create a memory book of my favorite murals

In Mexico. Design included mostly one photo per page with text

of where the mural was found and the artist if available.

One page contains 3 photos by one favorite muralist.

And one bleed spread of a complex mural.

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A favorite page.

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Creating a Heart Book: the process next

1. PLAN Story/Subject

• • • • • •

Organize photos.

Select subject, theme or story.

Create working title.

Choose book vendor & size.

Collect photos in a desktop folder.

Write brief descriptions for photos: names, dates, places, feelings, connections.

3. PRODUCE Create Book

2. PREPARE Make Pages

• • • • •

Crop, size, and enhance photos.

Create page layouts.

Add words to page.

Sequence into 2-page spreads.

Create front & back covers.

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Upload photos (pages) to Costco Photo Center.

• Preview and edit.

• Add page #s.

• Edit again.

• Order book.

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3. Produce — Create Book

Costco Photo Center is a simple and inexpensive way to create beautiful Heart Books.

You do, however, need a Costco account.

If you prefer, there are other personal photo book vendors such as Mixbook, Shutter y, and Snap sh.

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3. Produce — Create Book The Home Stretch

1. Click “My Photos” and sign in

2. Click “Create New Album” using name of your book

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3. Produce — Create Book 3. Click this icon and agree to the copyright statement that these are your pictures.

The next step trips up almost everyone until they understand how Costco Photo Center Works

ALL photo projects pull pictures from an ALBUM. Costco automatically creates a NEW ALBUM unless you designate the album you want to use.

That blue dot means Costco is assuming you want to create a NEW album!

You DON’T want a new album, you want to use the existing album you set up for your book. Click this dot.

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3. Produce — Create Book 4. Select your book album and upload the book pages you made in Photoscape.

(You can also make pages using the Costco page-making process but it’s a little more confusing.)

Remember!

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3. Produce — Create Book 5. Set up your Photo Book Project Click “My Projects” Then click “Create New Photo Book”

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6. Choose the book size you want and continue.

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7. Next, you will see a bunch of templates to choose from. you will want “blank” because you have already designed your pages.

Select blank.

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7. Next, you will see a bunch of templates to choose from. you will want “blank” because you have already designed your pages.

Select blank.

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3. Produce — Create Book On your rst project, you probably want to add photos manually by clicking them onto the page.

8. Add photos.

Costco gives you options and some hints.

Select your album.

You can always upload more photos.

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3. Produce — Create Book 9. Click photos into the pages.

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Some of the 12 books created through Costco Photo Center

by Dolores Forsythe, world traveler and jewelry artist.

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3. Produce — Create Book 10. It’s time to Play: Layouts.

1-Photo Layouts

Toolbar

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3. Produce — Create Book Toolbar

10. It’s time to Play: add text.

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1-photo layout with lots of white space

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3. Produce — Create Book 10. It’s time to Play: add clipart.

Toolbar

1-photo layout with less white space and clipart butter ies.

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3. Produce — Create Book Toolbar

10. It’s time to Play: add a border mask.

1-photo layout with border masks.

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3. Produce — Create Book Toolbar

10. It’s time to Play: try colored backgrounds.

1-photo layout with color background.

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3. Produce — Create Book 10. Polish.

Edit.

Let it sit for a few days.

Then, edit again.

Finally, add to Costco cart and wait.

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