With advancements in technology, it’s never been easier to capture and preserve a visual record of your happiest memories, via digital devices and photo books online.
There are many ways in which you can preserve and display your best, most stunning and favourite photographs. From budget-friendly to luxuriously bespoke and handcrafted, the modern day photo book has the power to showcase your favourite photographs in the best light, so that they evoke the viewer’s emotions with a sense of nostalgia.
If you want to update the manner in which you store, display and show off your favourite snaps, there are a number of different options available to suit your budget…
Traditional and timeless photo books
Traditional style photo books are the ideal choice, if you have a zillion photographs and find it difficult to pare down your collection. The classic softcover or printed hardcover photo book is large and spacious enough to accommodate vast numbers of your favourite printed photographs.
Instead of passing your mobile phone around to share your favourite images with family and friends, you can mesmerise them with stylish displays of beautiful printed photos arranged in the pages of landscape, portrait or square books that are perfectly primed for your photos.
With the turn of each page, the viewer can enjoy an immersive experience that takes them back to a bygone age. Taking a leisurely stroll down memory lane is a pastime that everyone enjoys, especially when it involves holding a weighty, physcal photo book in your hands and thumbing its pages.
Photographs have the power to trigger your brain into accessing archived memories. Once your mind retrieves the long-forgotten information, you can fully immerse yourself in reliving the experiences that you observe in the printed photos on display in traditional photo books.
Luxuriously handcrafted photo books
If you’re keen to create a photographic legacy for your family, it’s vital that you preserve your most precious moments in luxury softcover, printed hardcover, or fabric photo books. A handcrafted bespoke photo book is an investment purchase and the perfect keepsake accessory to encapsulate your family’s history, so that you can share it with future generations of your clan.
Artisanal handcrafted photo books are made with the finest quality paper, and are designed to stand the test of time. Through the years, you and your family can enjoy browsing a collection of nostalgic photos that can be passed down to future generations in pristine condition.
To create a balanced display in stylish and elegant, luxury fabric covered photo books, with foil stamped or debossed covers, it’s best to sort your favourite snaps by size and colour. For an arrangement of photo books online to be optimally visually appealing, the photographs should be arranged in a way that encourages the viewer to naturally gaze at the images from one side to the other, without interruption.
To give your preserved photos a professional look, avoid overcrowding the photo book pages with too many images. Featuring plenty of white space on every page enhances the dramatic effect of portrait shots and panoramic landscape scenery.
Display your favourite photos in a chronological sequence, and don’t mix colour snaps with monochrome black and white images, if you want your photographic arrangement to be timeless and classy.
Bang up to date photo books
If you can’t decide whether to choose a budget-friendly book for your precious photos, or the more expensive option, you can always opt for the contemporary layflat format.
The layflat photo book is bang up to date and modern in design, and replicates the style of exclusive glossy magazines. As the elegant book has no spine, the extra thick pages lay completely flat to showcase a striking seamless sequence. The edge-to-edge double page spreads of your favourite travel, wedding and special occasion photographs will look amazing!
To create a wow factor coffee table photo book that your family and friends will want to browse over and over again, choose a layflat photo book that boasts a classic square or a landscape format.
Adding personal touches
Regardless of the style of photo book that you choose to display your treasured snaps in, it’s important to make time to add some personal touches. Decorative embellishments, such as descriptive text, foiling, and embossing can transform an ordinary photo book into a valuable and unique family heirloom.
If you’re taking the time to curate a collection of your favourite stunning images as a legacy for your family, adding personal touches will make the priceless collection of preserved snaps extra special. To jog the viewer’s memory, feature personalised text that describes what’s going on in the images on show. Bring the photos to life, by adding funny captions and comments.
Paper mementoes, like tickets, maps, flyers or leaflets are helpful tools that the viewer can use to relieve the experiences. It’s also worth including the names of the people featured in each photo, along with dates, place names and other anecdotes, if you want your grandchildren and their children to keep your legacy alive.
Today’s photo books online are easy and fun to curate. With a little financial and energy investment, it’s possible to create a stunning collection of your favourite photo memories in a short amount of time. You’ll be able to enjoy the pleasurable experience of time travelling to the happy days of the past, whenever you’re in the mood for reminiscing and nostalgia.
