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[SylvieFromBelgium]

Hi Ladies,

My name is Sylvie and I'm from Belgium. Sorry my english is not perfect. This forum is a good exercice for my language.

I scrap sinds 5 years ago but I started with the scrap "paper". Today, I prefer the digital scrapbooking. I'm a customer of Designer Digitals shop sinds one year ago. But I'm not an expert in digi and I need you today.

For started, one question "basic"
I would like to create an "personnal" album with my own layout in Shutterfly. But I don't known what's the good method for create a layout (pixels and dpi). Actually, I work with a page of 12x12 but in 120 or 72 dpi. Is it enough or no ? You how do you do ? (sorry really for my english).

An other question, I have a problem with my first personnal album in Shutterfly. During the slide show, my picture is very very big. I understand nothing.

Thanks a lot for your help

[sarahorton]

Hi Sylvie!
Welcome to the Forums! It's so nice to have you here! your tag line is adorable!

The standard for print quality layouts is 300 ppi.
72 ppi or 120 ppi is great for viewing on a computer monitor, but not quite high enough resolution for good prints.

[jazzmatazz]

Sylvie,

Welcome! Love your photo and that precious LO! Sara beat me to the punch regarding the resolution. You could contact Shutterfly directly, but I think they'll probably tell you that the quality of the print at 72 or 120 dpi will not be particularly good. Unfortunately, I don't think at this point that you can go back to your original LOs and increase the resolution. I'm afraid it will be noisy if you do that. Perhaps someone with more expertise will correct me if I am wrong on that.

As for the size of the pictures, search the Shutterfly site for photobook templates. They provide size template that help you get good results in the printed book, avoiding cutoffs in the photos. I've got to run, but if you can't find the templates, I can get you the link when I return.

Look forward to seeing more posts from you!

[Denise Gormish]

Go to Shutterfly here:

http://www.shutterfly.com/digitalscr...sign-specs.jsp

to download the template for the size you want. Open it and create in the template. It will be the right size to print with Shutterfly.

[jazzmatazz]

Just came back to post the link to find Denise beat me to it! Thanks, Denise!

[nirecreations]

Tracy is right you can't increase your resolution.

[SylvieFromBelgium]

Wowww thank you very much for your help. I almost very understood. If I have still questions, I have will return towards you. Thank you for the link towards Shutterfly. I will read all that this evening. Thanks ladies.

[SylvieFromBelgium]

Sorry, but I just have still a small question to be certain to have well understood. Layout that you realize for print are in 300 dpi. But the layout that you show on Internet are in 72 dpi? I suppose that's the same on Shutterfly ?
Sorry for all these questions, that's a little complicated for me today. But I reassure you, I understands quickly! But in english is more difficult.

[jazzmatazz]

Sylvie,

Don't apologize. It is confusing to everyone at first. No, in Shutterfly, you upload at 300 dpi not at 72. In the future, you need to make sure you create your LOs at 300 dpi, then scale the resolution down to 72 dpi to post in the gallery here at Designer Digitals. (Most people save a separate low resolution gallery copy in addition to their 300 dpi original.) At Shutterfly, however, since they need 300 dpi to produce a quality print, you upload the LO at 300 dpi resolution for them.

Hope that helps! If not, please keep asking! ;-)

[quilter422]

i have no advice to add as the girls have already shown you the way, but wanted to say hello and welcome to dd.

[SylvieFromBelgium]

Thank you Jazzmatazz. It's very clean for me now !!

Thank you too Quilter422. Nice to meet you too.

[InkyWings]

Originally Posted by Denise Gormish

Go to Shutterfly here:

http://www.shutterfly.com/digitalscr...sign-specs.jsp

to download the template for the size you want. Open it and create in the template. It will be the right size to print with Shutterfly.

Oh, thanks from mee too. I've been wondering about the same thing.

I've downloaded the template now, but do I fill it with my page only inside the little blue line, or do I fill it complete, but not place important things outside the blue line? Want to get it right from start so I won't have to redo all my pages in the end of the year.

[nativescrapper]

Dont have any suggestion to your question but I just wanted to say Hello and Welcome to Designer Digital.

[Denise Gormish]

You can do it either way. I fill in the whole area but don't leave anything important outside the line. If I have something that sits right on the page edge (like one Anna's distressed edges) I will reduce it so it fits right on the line - otherwise you won't see it when it prints.

I would be interested to know if this is how others do it as well.

Originally Posted by InkyWings

Oh, thanks from mee too. I've been wondering about the same thing.

I've downloaded the template now, but do I fill it with my page only inside the little blue line, or do I fill it complete, but not place important things outside the blue line? Want to get it right from start so I won't have to redo all my pages in the end of the year.

[whatnext]

Hi, Sylvie. Just wanted to say "Hi!" Good luck on your book.

[penkitten]

If you are disappointed that you cannot use your current layouts to make a large photo book and don't feel like redoing them all ... you could make a smaller book. You could try 8x8 or maybe another print service with 6x6.

[angie wags]

Lisa, fill it completely. That allows space for the cover of the book to be folded over, I believe. The one time I only filled to the blue line, I had white edges on my book.

Welcome, Sylvie!

[Elena]

Welcome Sylvie! Your English is great! We'd love to see your layouts here

[SylvieFromBelgium]

Thank you ladies ! You are very sweet ! Now I'm ready for create the rest of my photobook.
This week I show you my layout. Thank you thank you.

[InkyWings]

Originally Posted by wags

Lisa, fill it completely. That allows space for the cover of the book to be folded over, I believe. The one time I only filled to the blue line, I had white edges on my book.

Welcome, Sylvie!

Oh thanks a bunch for letting me (and others) know!
I don't want white edges....

I will be so fun to see the complete book next year!