On Friday, our engagement images arrived on a CD. Ninety-three high-res images. I think my little computer wanted to explode. I work with a very little camera and very little resolution. Now that I have seen the difference (and improvement) I am not sure how to go back.
For the past couple weeks, I have been trying to come up with the best way to display the photos in book form. I have had a small (7×9 inch) 3-ring binder sitting around for awhile, and I figured it would be perfect. I purchased a lot of orange, gray and cream card stock to use as the background for simple scrapbook pages. But once I got the actual images and started playing around in Photoshop Elements, I decided to keep the whole book digital. Two page spreads with only the photos, white space & Helvetica in orange and gray.
I wasn't sure quite the best way to incorporate text into the book and it ended up being a little random. A few spreads have "stories" – little anecdotes that I remember from the photo shoot. Other photos have just a short sentence accompanying them. In the end, it sort of became a letter to Paul. I called him "you" throughout the whole book. The storyboard is what you see above, it's 38 pages.
I contemplated having the pages all printed and bound through a service like blurb, but after a test print of the first page I knew I would do it all at home. The combination of my printer and Lisa's photos is just perfect and I really do love that little orange binder.
Tomorrow, I will share the printed out pages as well as how I am going to house them all in the album. I will also talk about photo paper, adhesive and the only printer you will ever need for the rest of your life.
photos by Lisa Welge
enJOY it 
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