FotoInspired January 2019

Balance Before Numbers

How Many Pages Per Month?

Quantity of Photos Determines Number of Layouts

Quantity of photos refers to the number of photos you want to use in your FotoInpired layout (as opposed to all the photos you take in a given month.)

Remove duplicates and decide which photos (and stories) you want to include.

The number of photos will determine whether a double-page spread ‘houses’ 1, 2, 3 weeks, or a month of photos.

You may also have multiple double-pages for one week if you were on vacation or experienced a different out-of-the-ordinary life event.

For example, I had fewer photos for Weeks 1 and 2 of January than I did for the second half of the month. The first 2 weeks were combined into one layout, while Week 3 and 4 had their own pages.

Number of Photos Per Layout

Balance photos with DigitalART

10-14 photos per page is a good rule of thumb (give or take a few).

Select a template that can accommodate your selected photos, while leaving 1-3 masks for text, and another 1-3 mask for ‘Artsy Paper’ embellishment.

These ‘White Space’ masks allow the eye to rest between the photos and prevent your pages becoming too cluttered/busy/visually chaotic.

It’s tempting to try and fit more photos into a page, so you have fewer pages to create, but it’s always counter-intuitive.

Adding too many photos to a page not only takes more time in terms of a) Adding the actual photos, and B) Trying to solve the design challenges of incorporating too many photos.

[aalogo] TIP. If your page doesn’t look quite right, or it’s taking too long to create, then there is a very GOOD chance you are trying to add too many elements, such as photos, DigitalART and text, to your design.

This happened for me this month when I tried to combine Weeks 3 and 4 into one double page spread.

This layout took me WAY too long to put together, photos are not as well showcased because the masks are smaller, and some images that I originally wanted to include, did not make it onto the page.

It was definitely worth spending the time splitting the weeks up to each accommodate a double page spread as shown above.

What did FotoInpired look like for you this month?

What were your challenges in January?

What do you wish you knew about the FotoInspired project, or product range, that would make this project easier for you?

What would you like to see in this space each month to help you?

Please share with me in the comments section below how I can best help you in these monthly posts.