A colleague of mine shared about being at an airport and waiting 'a good long time' to open her emails, only to find out that the delay was caused by an email that had a large photo. That one file attachment cost her $3 in internet connection time. She was not a happy camper.

Most of us have received emails where excited friends attached photos in its full large size glory… you have to scroll and scroll to see the full picture. The reason that happens is because Read more

We spend months planning our family vacation, take two weeks off from work to go away, blow off thousands of dollars before returning home, drained but happy. Yet, we have no time to preserve those memories. Such is the paradox of our busy lifestyle.

Our rational? Well, those digital pictures are on my hard drive. They won't spoil. When I want them, they'll be there. No time now.

I hope when you watch how easy it is to create digital photobooks (I use Picaboo) you will change your mind.

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As shown in the video above, the first step is to download the free Picaboo software.

If you have a bunch of digital pictures, photobooks is the quickest way to give them life outside the computer hard drive. However, a photobook has its own limitations. 1. You cannot move, resize or crop your pictures. The layout you choose dictates that. And 2. You cannot add embellishments. If you want to have more elaborate page designs and have that kind of control, you need a digital scrapbooking software.

Since your book design and layout are limited to the layout selections, when you choose a bookmaking software, make sure it gives you a huge selection of layouts to choose from. Being able to auto-fill an album with your pictures according to the theme you pick is also a huge time-saver. Especially if you have the ability to specify your photo groupings for the auto-fill, so you are not spending huge amounts of time shifting picture from one page to another. After all, we need time to start planning your next vacation, don't we?

To download Picaboo's free bookmaking software, click here.