No.8 365 - A year in photo

365 

I did it. I made another Blurb book - this time of my 2010 Shuttercal 365. It's been cool to look back on the year and make some sort of record of it. I know the Shuttercal does the whole recording the year thing, but this is like a wrap up of 2010. 
Each month has a DPS consisting of the months Shuttercal and a shot from that month, and then there are 14 pages in the middle which are taken up with shots from the year, not in much order, but ones I liked. 


I used the Bookify web programme as I cant download Booksmart {thanks to my antivirus not switching off}, but it worked pretty well, and although you don't have as much control or page layouts as with Booksmart, I think that it's done the job pretty well {and to be honest, it probably made the process about 100% quicker as I couldn't faff as much}. 
With regards to the size and style - I went with the small square book with 40 pages, partly because the images of the month calendars I got from the Shuttercal pages weren't very big, and would be pixelated on a bigger page, and also partly because of cost!  I have the book on order now so I'll be sure to post when I get it back in the flesh, so to speak. 
If your thinking about making a book, Astrid at Hei Astrid has some great tips on making Blurb books {she is a Blurb book aficionado}. I second her suggestions to keep your photo libraries organised - this is the first year that I have organised my images as the year has gone on, and it has made it super simple to find my pics for this project. And, I like her like Blurb - its a simple site to use and having used a couple of other sites in the past, I think their printing is of a higher quality. I cant wait to get the book now.