What was the last trip you took? Do you still have all the photos you took saved on your phone or camera? They were fun to take and make the perfect remembrance of the trip, though narrowing them down to just the keepers is always such a tedious task. Software is available to find duplicates, but if you take shots of wildlife in rapid-fire succession, you can end up with a massive backlog of photos pretty fast.
I recently had a conversation with a friend who had several hundred thousand photos stored across multiple drives and was going through the narrowing process. At the time we last talked, she had cut them down to a more manageable 190k. She’s still deleting them today and will be for the foreseeable future. If you find yourself in this same situation, you’d better get started now.
Once you’ve gotten down to just the pics you want to keep, things become much more fun. Pictures can make the best keepsakes and gifts. Putting together photo books for your family and friends is an excellent reminder of the fun everyone had on the trip. Everyone laughed uncontrollably that time your cousin was spat on by a Llama, so why not add it to the photo book so they can all relive the moment.
There are several websites out there that offer photo books, and many offer selections to set them up as well. The team at Mixbook.com provides some pretty amazing tools to set up a photo book and capture the excitement and feel of the trip. They have hundreds of themes to choose from, ranging from family albums to just for fun everyday books.
Creating a photo book online is a lot like scrapbooking but without all the mess. There isn’t any paste or slivers of paper that need to be cleaned up. Using the themes and tools Mixbook.com offers makes bringing your pics to life so easy, you could do it as a family project. Even your little tike will be able to help out, and it will still go relatively smoothly. Of course, we are talking about toddlers, and it seems nothing ever goes quite as smoothly as we would hope when they are involved.
Toddler excitement aside, the customer support team is there to help out in case things don’t go quite as efficiently as you’d hoped. They have a super quick and knowledgable team that will get right to the source of the issue and have you back on track right away. Who knew that switching the extension on a saved file would cause problems? Obviously not your toddler, who went crazy with the mouse while you were getting snacks.
Speaking of toddlers, photo books are also the perfect way to capture their growth over the years. You can make them a book for their birthday every year, and when they get older, you can prove to them that you were a fun parent. Spending the time to create these books now will also let you look through them to remember when your little one was such a loving, cuddly little angel — some of the time, that is.
