The Life Remembered Blog
Making Busy Backgrounds Work for You
I felt a certain amount of pressure to come up with a really amazing baby book for my daughter, considering my business. But when I finally sat down to do it (yes, even pros can procrastinate), I felt really creatively stuck. I found a set of digital...
Craft My Wedding 2015
We had a wonderful time at Craft My Wedding this weekend! My amazing husband helped with the booth and ran herd on our toddler, who was part of the team (yes, that's a Life Remembered Intern romper she's sporting). Despite a few fire drills -- one actual (a result...
5 Tips for Creating a Tribute Photo Book
Looking to create a special photo album for someone's milestone birthday? Consider making it a tribute album by including letters from friends and family of the birthday person. The ability to smoothly incorporate text is one of the advantages that photo books have...
Olivia’s First Day: Baby Montage
My niece was born yesterday! Her name is Olivia Marie, and she is just precious. I made this montage as a surprise for her parents. Welcome, baby! Here is the story of your first day in this world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTAGwGc4IA
Work with What You Have: Creating Wedding Albums from Incomplete Photo Sets
Today I want to talk about an interesting challenge in wedding album design - the incomplete set of photos. In this case, the bride (Kelly) had come down with stomach flu at the start of the reception ... nightmare! So she was consequently missing from most of the...
Gold and Glam Wedding Album Design: The Hogans
The Hogans held a grand wedding, full of flowers and twinkling December lights! The bride requested a "white and gold glam" album style, a simple chic. I purchased a set of gold glitter digital background "papers" and used them as more subtle embellishments to...
One of my favorite photography blogs, Live Snap Love, recently did a guest post on Click It Up a Notch, and it is chock full of helpful tips on telling a story with your photos. When I sit down to create a photo book or a montage, I try to tell the best story I can....
Read more“We are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realising it. We digitise things because we think we will preserve them, but what we don’t understand is that unless we take other steps, those digital versions may not be any better, and may even be worse, than the artefacts that we digitised. If there are photos you really care about, print them out.
Google is worried about your photo collection
Well, not just yours, of course. They're worried about our entire generation's collection of photos and other data, saying we could end up as "forgotten century" if we're not careful about how we archive these things. Google's vice president Vint Cerf recently spoke...
The Flip-Pal: Scanning Photos the Easy Way
The first step in many photo book projects is actually getting your photos in a digital form. Whether they are piled in shoeboxes or neatly arranged in pocket photo albums, you still need to get them scanned to start your design work (and hey, Shoeboxers, you...
How to Choose Photos for Your Wedding Album
It can be overwhelming to choose photos for your wedding album - I've seen couples who get over 1,000 pictures from their photographers! Having a sense of how the album breaks down can be helpful when you're trying to make sense of all the files. How many photos of...
Showdown: Press Printed Books vs. Photo Printed
All photo books might seem the same to you if you're just getting started with them. There are actually a few fundamental differences, though. Layflat pages is one. "Press printing" is another. Most people never even hear the term, but it's a significant factor in...
Coming Soon–Live!–to a Wedding Fair Near You (maybe)
I am delighted to announce that I have been accepted as a vendor for Craft My Wedding 2015! It's happening Sunday, April 19th in Somerville, Massachusetts (which is near Boston). This wedding event focuses on local small businesses and handmade crafts. The founder...