The digital world of photography has developed the need for a new way of storing and showcasing photographs.

1. Photo Books: The Alternative To a
Wedding Photo Album

2. The digital world of photography has developed the need
for a new way of storing and showcasing photographs.
The era where pictures were captured using the robust
35mm cameras, rolls of film and then printed to a studio
in traditional albums or decorative scrapbooks, are no
longer in sight. Now photography is mostly taken with
DLSR cameras, point and shoot cameras and even
smart phones and are then stored and shared through
memory cards, flash drives, Bluetooth or online. Instead
of taking a limited number of pictures at a time,
thousands of pictures can be taken digitally and so, the
challenge is to find a way to share and store all of these
photographs.

3. Digital pictures can be stored on a computer, on CD's and
flash drives or even the new digital picture frames, which
are equally elegant and useful. There are also plenty of
mediums online that let users share their pictures but
there still remains a clamor for a physical format, thus,
the birth of photo books.

4. Photo books have given a new life to digital photography.
Instead of putting all these pictures in the virtual world,
these images can now be printed and displayed. With the
advent of so many photo editing software these days,
images can now be manipulated and combined with
various graphic elements and text all in a book format.
Instead of browsing through tons of printed images one
at a time, a photo book tells a story out of the event in a
way that is user-friendly, easy to share, view and store
for a lifetime.

5. When planning to get one for yourself, you can consider it
as one of the best birthday gift ideas. It is not specific to
any kind of celebration. Having photo books as gifts can
be appreciated in all occasions. First, you need to go
online and search for a website that offers photo book
creation services. Normally, this is done through a
program which automatically positions the photos to
make the job easy for you. Browse through their list of
templates available depending on the type of occasion.
Once you've chosen a photo book layout and theme, you
have to upload the photos you want to appear in the
photo book.

6. There are several options to upload which include memory
card, flash drives or even from photo-sharing sites such
as Pinterest and Flickr. You will be given the liberty to
place the photos on the template. You can also make
some changes in its position, depending on how you
want it to look like. When all the images are in place, you
will then be asked to finalize the layout and you're done.
It will be uploaded to their site and just wait for billing and
receipt.

7. Resources:
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8. Thanks for reading!