With Christmas in the recent past, I am again focused on finishing a book for 2016. As you can see in this screen shot from the book module in Lightroom that I posted below, I have about sixty pages already completed. Having taken over 14,000 photos this year, there is no way that I’ll be able to include them all in a book. I’ve also accepted the fact that I will finish a smaller book this year rather than thinking that a book for 2016 isn’t worth the effort to finish if I don’t create as many pages as I did in 2015.
After looking at the collections of photos for possible 2016 layouts, I have decided to complete just five more double page spreads. I’ve placed the photos for each layout on new 24×12 inch blank documents. Next, I will begin selecting templates from either Travel Template Album No. 2 or Project Template Album No. 2 to finish the pages.
As I finish up these pages, I am thinking about what I want to do next year, what I want to create with the photos that I make. I am considering focusing more on making the photos and displaying them on simpler pages with journaling. I have some thoughts about my priorities and direction based on my experiences creating books over the last few years that I will share in January.
Diane
Linda,
As always, you are amazing!! You make such beautiful layouts and books, and I think it’s wonderful that you have these treasured keepsakes in your family!
I am so excited to hear the direction you are going to go in January by creating simpler pages with journaling. This is the format I want for my children’s memory books and I’m sure that as always, you will be a great source of inspiration!
Thank you so much for sharing so much of yourself with us and all the best in 2017!!
Linda
Thank you so much Diane, especially for the encouragement to continue sharing!!!