Top DIY Photo Album Design Tips for Beginners

If you are new to album design, creating a DIY photo album can be synonymous with headache. How many photos should  be included on each spread？What layout is attractive? Is it necessary to add as many embellishments as possible in the photo album? Then hours and even days are spent in designing and revisions, making a terrible experience for you. But it does not have to be that way! We write this article about top DIY photo album design tips to take a huge weight off your shoulders.

Get the Right Tool to Create DIY Photo Album

Embracing professional photo album makers will free you from a time-consuming creation process and put the joy into album designing.FlipHTML5 comes on the scene that claim to be the leader of these makers. It hosts hundreds of album samples on the official website for you to find inspiration. You can click to upload images to start creation. The design process is simplified with basic photo editing tools in this software. After publishing the DIY photo album on the Cloud of FlipHTML5, you still have the ability to modify the album.

To give you an idea of the finished design for the DIT photo album created by FlipHTML5, here is a photo album example at fliphtml5.com.

Be consistent

Design is not just about decoration. It is also about building consistency between elements. This means element repetition, element alignment, similar element treatment and spacing. There are some tools FlipHTML5 provides to enhance consistency:

1.     Enable “copy” and “paste” options for the element repetition.

2.     Enable align options like “Left Align” and “Center Align” to keep element aligned.

3.     Make full use of the element property setting to customize elements with the same treatment (opacity, drop shadows, size and angle).

4.     Take advantage of the grid to ensure a consistent spacing between elements on one page.

Lay out One Spread at a Time

The easiest way to design an DIY photo album is to lay out one spread at a time. Make a left page and a right page relate to each other by content or style, and then you can create one spread which tells one mini story to help convey information. So what needs does the content on one spread should meet? As a matter of fact, only these photos, which were taken during the same moment and have the same tone, should be placed on one spread. Once you follow this rule, you can choose the right photos as fast as possible for each page and also ensures a beautiful logical layout for the album. In FlipHTML5’s Animation Editor, you can change the sequential order of pages to make different spreads. 

Hopefully these tips can guide you through the creation process to make a impressive DIY photo album.