Photobook Disaster!

[dancin'girl]

Well, not a disaster, exactly...

I spent hours putting together our photopass book. I must have proof-read it 20 times. It was so expensive, I wanted to make sure that I got everything right. I even had my mother proof-read it for me. Well, I got it in the mail yeaterday and wouldn't you know - I spelled out last name WRONG on the cover!!!! scared1: - this was me when I opened the package!) I thought "this has to be a mistake" and brought up my saved project. There it was, spelled incorrectly. I don't know how I could have overlooked that mistake so many times!
Oh, well. I can laugh about it today. I guess the next one will be "perfect".

Other than the cover, I am really happy with it. I would definitely recommend it. Easy to make and just beautiful. So worth the cost.

 

[yasuern]

Thats too funny - your own last name - lol

My little secret I did one from Kodak years ago and same thing proof read it a billion times and I mispelled - Disney

It looked like this under the 1st photo

OUR WONDERFUL MAGICAL TRIP
TO
WALT DISEY WORLD​

oh well

Sue

 

[HerdOHuds]

We did a photobook after our December trip and I loved how it came out! I totally agree that it is worth the money for me to not have to spend several non-existant weeks living with the mess of scrapbooking, carving out an hour here or there to work on it and honestly never really complete the dang thing! Now I have a beautiful book that includes all the important bits from our trip! Sorry about the misspelling! But enjoy your book!

 

[poohfriend77]

Sorry about your book! You're a good sport to be laughing about it already. I'm sure I'd still be sulking for a few more days at least.

 

[Jennia]

I agree, the books turn out so nice! I'm glad you're able to laugh about it, though. I also made TWO typos in ours, and I didn't recover so quickly lol!

 

[LWatson]

I've made 2 off of another site for free (I had special codes). I love them. I'm thinking that this time we go to Disney I might just do that with the pics from there because I still havent scrapped but 2 pages since returning.

 

[dancin'girl]

Thanks everyone - Glad to hear I'm not the only one making errors!
I was on the verge of tears when I first opened it, but surprisingly, I recovered quickly. It's still beautiful and I love it!
Just can't believe I missed that typo! On the cover, no less! Oh, well!

 

[mom2faith]

My sister did a calendar and made copies for gifts and spelled her DD's name wrong on everypage!! Darn that copy and paste function - LOL!!!

She was very embarrassed!!

 

[dwfanatic]

I made 2 books of our last trip (one from the photopass site and one from another place) and I wrote Spaceship Earth on a picture when it really was Mission Space... So, your not alone.

 

[FLAgirl73]

I can only laugh to keep from crying, because I can so imagine doing this very thing myself! I am currently working on a photobook and I'm constantly checking EVERYTHING - I'm so anal. Thanks for the reminder to check our names.

BTW - which style did you use for your layouts? I've been using the "fab 5" but wondering if the classic characters might be a little bit more subtle so as not to overshadow the pictures themselves. I'm a scrapbooker at heart who just doesn't have the time anymore to do it, but even when scrapbooking I always like for the pictures to really stand out, not the paper or embellishments.

Also - how the heck do you change the font? I've searched under help but can't find any info.

 

[dancin'girl]

FLAgirl73-
I would usually scrapbook the trip, but it is time consuming and this book looked just so great. I am very pleased with how it turned out!

I used all of the different background pages in our book. I chose depending on the park, dining location, etc. Used the fun in the sun pages for swimming and boating pics, also for meeting Ariel, the fab 5 for most of MK and for Chef Mickey's, I used the vintage pages for Epcot, and the elegant (the beige one with a very subtle vine patern) for Animal Kingdom, princess pages for CRT, etc. I made sure that the two facing pages matched, but other than that I mixed it up!
I was not able to change the font, however each style of page has it's own font, so our book ended up with many different fonts.

 

[lisalisalisa]

I made calendars for all the family of my boys and I spelt my middle son's name wrong

 

[floydfamily4]

Sorry to hear about your typo- glad you are able to laugh. Question about the photopass book--how many pages do you get?

thanks

 

[dancin'girl]

floydfamily4-
I went with the professional book so I could use our photopass pics. I ended up with 42 pages! What pushed me over the limit was I decided to use a few of the nicer shots as solo pics. With the borders, pictures and then text, some of the photos can be small.
Much longer than I anticipated, but it's tough to stop adding pages! I don't feel that it is too long, though! It end up costing $113.

 

[JaimeK]

I just ordered our photobook a few days ago!

I mixed up the backgrounds too. For MK I did classic characters, Epcot I did Fab 5, DTD, AK, DS and our resort I did fun in the sun, our princess breakfast I used the princess background. For a full page picture it's fun to put a border on it and then lay it out without a background.

 

[meanmom121]

Well, not a disaster, exactly...

I spent hours putting together our photopass book. I must have proof-read it 20 times. It was so expensive, I wanted to make sure that I got everything right. I even had my mother proof-read it for me. Well, I got it in the mail yeaterday and wouldn't you know - I spelled out last name WRONG on the cover!!!! scared1: - this was me when I opened the package!) I thought "this has to be a mistake" and brought up my saved project. There it was, spelled incorrectly. I don't know how I could have overlooked that mistake so many times!
Oh, well. I can laugh about it today. I guess the next one will be "perfect".

Other than the cover, I am really happy with it. I would definitely recommend it. Easy to make and just beautiful. So worth the cost.

I did the same thing except on my daughter's birth certificate - cost $75 dollars to fix it. duh
What photo book did you do? I don't know whether to do shutterfly, Blurb, the Disneybook

 

[eeyorethegreat]

Well, not a disaster, exactly...

I spent hours putting together our photopass book. I must have proof-read it 20 times. It was so expensive, I wanted to make sure that I got everything right. I even had my mother proof-read it for me. Well, I got it in the mail yeaterday and wouldn't you know - I spelled out last name WRONG on the cover!!!! scared1: - this was me when I opened the package!) I thought "this has to be a mistake" and brought up my saved project. There it was, spelled incorrectly. I don't know how I could have overlooked that mistake so many times!
Oh, well. I can laugh about it today. I guess the next one will be "perfect".

Other than the cover, I am really happy with it. I would definitely recommend it. Easy to make and just beautiful. So worth the cost.

We did a photobook after our December trip and I loved how it came out! I totally agree that it is worth the money for me to not have to spend several non-existant weeks living with the mess of scrapbooking, carving out an hour here or there to work on it and honestly never really complete the dang thing! Now I have a beautiful book that includes all the important bits from our trip! Sorry about the misspelling! But enjoy your book!

I made a photo book and put the wrong year on it. I checked it over and over before sending it in. I too was like when I opened it.

I also started a scrap book in 2007 and still haven't finished.

 

[FoundMyPrince]

Does anyone have a photo of the photopass book? I've not seen one before. My MIL made a book online (maybe Snapfish) and I'm wondering if they are anything like those.

 

[FLAgirl73]

Foundmyprince - I am currently working on my Disney photobook and I've also created books on Snapfish, Shutterfly, etc. and can tell you that the process is very similar.