I've been a bit behind with my PL and it bugged me (I prefer doing it by months rather than by weeks). I took some time and followed one idea: better done than perfect. Fifteen minutes a day and in a week I had everything ready for printing. Now I want to share some steps that helped me or "that's how I do it":
• first thing is my journal - I record main events of my life into my phone (free programme "Memoires" allows me to add photos to my entries), into a copy-book for DIY projects or just to Word file. I do this because it's hard to recall everything some time after even with all the photos.
• I have all my photos in separate folders by months (2015.05MAY, 2015.06JUN, 2015.07JUL) so it's easy to sort
• I sit down with the journal and think which events I have photos of, which events I should add photos of or find pictures in the Internet (movie poster or a photo of a new fav toy), which photos are just too adorable to leave out. I have a baby and this part of the project is the hardest.
• I copy all needed photos into a separate folder and start arranging and processing them in Photoshop (I have a very old version and it's more than enough) using previously done layouts of page protectors I have
• I save the result as .tiff with layers and .jpg and leave it for now
• next time I review .jpg and deside if I like it the way it is (I've made a limit of 3 reviews in order not to make it an endless process), then I make changes or export photos into (10,2*15,2cm; 300dpi) files I'll send for printing
• and start working on the next month folder...
15 minutes a day and some limits make PL easy and interesting
• first thing is my journal - I record main events of my life into my phone (free programme "Memoires" allows me to add photos to my entries), into a copy-book for DIY projects or just to Word file. I do this because it's hard to recall everything some time after even with all the photos.
• I have all my photos in separate folders by months (2015.05MAY, 2015.06JUN, 2015.07JUL) so it's easy to sort
• I sit down with the journal and think which events I have photos of, which events I should add photos of or find pictures in the Internet (movie poster or a photo of a new fav toy), which photos are just too adorable to leave out. I have a baby and this part of the project is the hardest.
• I copy all needed photos into a separate folder and start arranging and processing them in Photoshop (I have a very old version and it's more than enough) using previously done layouts of page protectors I have
• I save the result as .tiff with layers and .jpg and leave it for now
• next time I review .jpg and deside if I like it the way it is (I've made a limit of 3 reviews in order not to make it an endless process), then I make changes or export photos into (10,2*15,2cm; 300dpi) files I'll send for printing
• and start working on the next month folder...
15 minutes a day and some limits make PL easy and interesting
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