How to Make a Photo Book (Fast & Easy!)

Savor your summer memories by creating a photo book! Adventure photographer, Edward Tomasso explains how you can easily create a beautiful photo book to look back on your exciting travels and other fun summer memories!

Edward Tomasso
Many moons ago, collecting photo albums was standard procedure. But since the transition from film to digital, physically compiling photo collections feels like a distant memory. Instead of developing photos and creating photo albums, most people tend to upload their memories to social media -- and that’s that. But recently, physical film collections have suddenly come back in style! Many companies now make creating photo albums easier than ever. As the summer winds down, photographer, Edward Tomasso says it’s the perfect time to savor your memories with your own photo book!


Creating photo albums used to be standard in the photography process. In the age of social media and smartphones, photo albums have faded in significance. Why spend weeks compiling your photos when you could create a digital album on Facebook in minutes?!

Leaning towards convenience, most people abandoned photo albums at least ten years ago. But now, the physical process of compiling photos is making a come back -- and it’s easier than ever before! In fact, you can now create physical albums almost as quickly as you create digital albums with the help of smartphone app, ChatBooks.

ChatBooks makes the process of creating a photo book fast, simple and easy! Tomasso recently gave the app a try, and he was shocked by how quickly he was able to create a hardcover album for his photos! In the ChatBooks app, users are able to add as many photos as they’d like to an 8x8 hardcover photo book -- for only $20. Easy as one, two, three, all you have to do is import your selected photos and organize the pages of your photo book as you wish. Each page has room for one photo and a caption, offering users the chance to add their own unique, customized touch to the process.

It’s safe to say that the chaotic days of photo album compiling are far behind us. But if you’re looking to savor your photography memories in a physical form, Tomasso says that photo books are for you!

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