You’ve taken a photography workshop to learn shooting in manual.
You’ve learned how to enhance your photos with Lightroom or Photoshop.
Yet all of your beautiful photos are stuck on your computer.
It’s time learn how to creatively show off your photos in a beautiful photo book.
Imagine being able to hold a collection of your photographs in your hand so you can sit down with your children and relive memories. Or the pride you’ll feel when you can show your husband your favorite photographs curated in a professional book.
I swear printing my books was the best thing I have ever done! If it wasn’t for taking your class, they would truly all be sitting on my hard drive. Believe it or not, the book actually inspires me to shoot. Having something at the end of the year of my family being them, is priceless. I’m now addicted to making photo books.
JEN SMAY
Document Your Year is a self-study workshop walking you through how to organize and assemble your favorite photos from the year into a beautiful family photo book. Step by step, this workshop outlines how to tell your family story from the year in a compelling, creative way.
With this workshop, you’re not trudging through an unfamiliar program using cheesy layouts. Instead, you’re unlocking the best way to curate the creativity, vitality, expression within your photos onto the page. The result is a stunning book that you’re proud to place on your coffee table and share with family and friends.
I took my first photography workshop when my son was born in order to better capture the amazing moments and details of his life. I made a photo book at the end of that year and haven’t stopped.
He’s now 10 years old and I’m so thankful to have beautiful photo books that I can look back through when I’m missing his younger years.
I want all moms with a camera who are obsessed with capturing their
As a winner of Blurb’s Favorite Books, I share my steps and favorite tricks as well as inspiring layout and book examples in Document Your Year to motivate you to finally print the photo book you’ve been meaning to do for years.
I could not have made the book I ended up making without this material. It made designing the book fun and easy. Stacey showed every little nook of designing a book using Blurb, some I would never have known if it hadn’t been for this workshop. This was the best workshop, I had taken in a long time!!!
MAIBRITT OLSEN
what you’ll get:
ebook
A beautifully designed PDF with 5 lessons in 200 pages
videos
30 videos walking through each step of my process
worksheets
4 worksheets to guide you through specific lessons in the ebook
assignments
An assignment for each lesson to implement the lesson
what you’ll learn:
In Lesson 1, you’ll learn:
- The most important first step for any photo book project: defining your vision.
- Aligning your book vision
to your photographs. - Examples of different photo book concepts.
In Lesson 2, you’ll learn:
- Defining your photo book parameters and why it matters.
- Organizing your photos for a photo book.
- The key to making the most of a crop.
In Lesson 3, you’ll learn:
- Why outlining your photo book is critical
for your success. - The best tools within the free design software program.
- Designing your must-have layouts.
In Lesson 4, you’ll learn:
- Adding text, color and ultimately style to your photo book.
- A variety of examples to inspire your own custom design.
In Lesson 5, you’ll learn:
- Last but not least, cover design.
- What you need to do before ordering your photo book.
- The best way to keep the momentum going.
