There is nothing more personal then your family photos and memories captured.  Why not make them into a special gift for the whole family to enjoy and remember those special moments?  You can by creating a coffee table or photo book with your own photos!  By going to Picaboo you can create any photo book using your own digital photos.  This makes great gifts for recent Grads, family vacations, and newborns. No need for scissors & glue, and stop spending hours uploading your photos to an online photofinishing site.  This is the new way of album making.

Push the button

Simply click the “Create Book” button, and then choose from over 15 stunning themes or start from scratch.

If you select Auto-Create, Picaboo will automatically populate your book in seconds with the photos you choose.

StoryFlow

StoryFlow is a whole new way to create photo books, making it easier, faster, and more fun. With StoryFlow, you group your photos onto pages before your book is created and then StoryFlow auto-creates a perfectly conceived book based on the theme you’ve selected.

Simply drag-and-drop your photos until they are grouped onto the pages in the order you want them. Once your book has been created, you have complete control to edit your book as you wish.

Custom covers

Customize the front, back, and spine of your book’s cover. Simply drag-and-drop your photos, add a title and you’re done.

Fully customizable with any Picaboo page background and layout, custom covers are case-bound on striking glossy laminate board.

What’s your background?

You can customize each page of your book with unique backgrounds. Select from hundreds of pre-loaded designs, choose from thousands of images from a free Background Community, or simply drag-and-drop any photo onto your page.

Layouts galore

With a wide variety of over 240 layouts, making each page of your book truly unique is as easy as a single click.

Whether you’re creating a baby album, travel journal, portfolio, or even a family cookbook, you’ll find the layout that works just right.

Fabulous fonts and corners

Say it like you mean it with over 40 unique fonts. Whether you’re adding a caption, telling a story, or journaling your memories, you’ll find the font that fits.

Frame your photos with a selection of over 50 corners and add the perfect finishing touch to your pages.

Photo tools

With Picaboo, it’s slider simple to crop, rotate, adjust brightness & contrast, remove red eye, and add/remove white borders and shadows.

Best of all, see the changes to your photos in real-time right on the page of your book.

Check it out!

Check out Picaboo for inspiring ideas, samples, tips, and more.

Make this Moment a Memory. photo courtesy of nutmeg

You buy a present, wrap it up, and hand it over to your loved one. They open it, thank you for the gift and the experience is over. Why not infuse some creativity, spunk and excitement into the gift-giving process so that it becomes just as memorable (if not more!) than the gift itself? Here are some suggestions:

1. Create a Scavenger Hunt: My husband’s birthday fell on Easter this year. I decided to create an Easter egg scavenger hunt. Each egg contained a small gift (like iTunes gift cards), the clue for finding the next egg, and a puzzle piece. At the end of the trail of eggs he assembled all of the puzzle pieces and discovered his big gift– a weekend getaway. Your scavenger hunt could just include clues that lead to the hidden present at the end. Either way, it makes getting the gift fun and challenging.

2. Wrap the Gift Ten Times: Maybe you’ve seen this before. You start with a small gift and wrap it. Then you put that in a box and wrap it. Then you put that in a box and wrap it. I’ve seen some gifts where layers of wrapping were funny lingerie from a thrift store. It made the opening process very entertaining (and extended) and the final gift even more appreciated.

3. Have Someone Else Deliver It: Enlist a singing telegram service or a person dressed in a funny costume to deliver your gift. Not only will the person enjoy the present, but they’ll enjoy the presentation of it as well!

4. Buy a Decoy Gift: Pull a little prank and buy a gag gift for your loved one, but present it as a “real” gift. (It could either be something really practical like laundry detergent or really bizarre like a Richard Simmons workout tape.) Once you’ve made the recipient believe this is for real, pull out the “good” gift and have a laugh.