digial Question, what size do you creat your pages?

[disneyfan2]

I always have done 12x12, but now have a free coupon for an 8x8 book through shutterfly. I know i can resize down to 8x8 but should i just make the pages at 8x8 or will it not matter?

[tgmousechick]

I do most of my layouts starting with a 12x12 square at 300 dpi. After the layout is complete, then I rescale to the actual size I need for upload or printing. It's super easy to shrink a file, but you can lose quality if you try to scale it up to much.

Rather than size, I think shape. My layout will either be a square, a rectangle, or a circle.

I encountered this exact situation yesterday- I was working on an altered foam die project for a convention (Origins) next week. I made all of the layouts 12x12, and then resized them to 3.5" x 3.5" for printing. It was SO easy!!!!! However, I still have the original 12x12, on the off chance that I might want to print them off for the kids' books, or another project.

[Fran98765]

If you are doing square LOs, always create at 12x12, as tgmousechick said, you can easily reduce the image size, but if you want bigger later, you are out of luck going bigger!

I print 8x8 shutterfly books and create at 12x12 and ensure that I keep my save at the 12x12 size.