Shutterfly Album Tips?

[nicolewi]

We're making a Shutterfly photo album with grandchild memories for my parents' 50th (!!!) wedding anniversary. I have been tasked with pulling this together and literally need to do it today. We have way too many photos of grandkids from 3 separate families, plus group shots with all of them, and I'm trying to cut it down. 

I was doing a 12x12 and was planning to upgrade to "lay flat" but not like the super lay-flat option. Anyone know if this is a good plan or if I need the top-end super lay-flat option?

How many pages work well? Like looks nice, manageable, but not too thick? I autofilled as it stands now just out of curiosity and it gave me 60 pages which seems like way way WAY too many. I was shooting for maybe like 30 pages???

I've done these in the past but it's been a long time and we want this one to turn out really nice for the anniversary. 

ETA: found a source that says 50 to 70 pages would not be too many for a 10x10 or 12x12?

[VillainV]

50-70 pages sounds like way too many! 3 families, 10 pages per family, 30 sounds about right. Or 8 pages per family plus however many pages of group shots, if you’ve got those.

[expectantsteelerfan]

I don't do the lay-flat version (I make one each year of our family photos), but I also don't use the layouts that cross over the pages (I don't do auto fill and pick out the layout for each page, but I get that with time being an issue that is not a good option for you). I would say regular lay flat is fine if you have pictures spanning the crease, but I would probably go through and quickly try to make sure those aren't your favorite pics. My last 3 books had 69, 55, and 61 pages, but that seems like a LOT for a 1 time occasion book. The book I made for a special vacation was 20 pages...I agree with VillainV that about 10 pages per family sounds about right.

[nicolewi]

It’s done. It was a beast of a project. It’s 73 pages long!! I really hope it looks great when we get it!!!!

[staceymcgill]

Jul 20, 2024 11:18:26 GMT -5 nicolewi said:

It’s done. It was a beast of a project. It’s 73 pages long!! I really hope it looks great when we get it!!!!

It will! I do books for my kids every year and they are 100ish pages. It always looks great!