Giving an 18th birthday photo book as a gift
Although you can certainly make an 18th birthday photo book for yourself, this special birthday photo album is an ideal gift to celebrate another cycle around the sun for a loved one. The new 18-year-old in your life will be touched when they see the effort you put into finding and organising all of the photos that document each year of their life. Whether you are creating your gift as a luxury photo album that will be on display for years to come or a more casual magazine-like softcover photo book, creating this personalised photo book is a gift for both you and the teenager in your life. Collecting the photos and organising them to your liking will give you the opportunity to take a trip down memory lane and revisit the earliest days in the life of your teenager. Whether you were there for their birth or you came into their life later on, this personalised gift will remind them of how they mean the world to you.
Choosing the perfect photos for your 18th birthday photo book
When the time comes to select the photos for your 18th birthday photo book, depending on how much of a photographer you are, 18 years' worth of photos might seem overwhelming at first! However, categorising your photos will make this task enjoyable and will let you relive some of your happiest moments through the snaps you find. Begin sorting through the photos for your birthday photo album by dividing them by year or by category. Perhaps you might like to include photos from each year of your special teenager’s life, or maybe it is more important for you to highlight some of their most defining moments, such as big trips they might have taken or major accomplishments they have achieved. If you would like to keep your photo book in chronological order but have thousands of photos to choose from, start small by picking multiple photos from the same event, whether it be a birthday party or the first day of school. Choose your favourite shots and group them together. If you find a photo you love but aren’t sure of its context, no need to worry! Include it anyway, and the 18-year-old who is receiving it might smile when they see it and know exactly what was happening in the photo. Try this method throughout your personalised 18th birthday photo book, and your gift is sure to be a hit.
How to design your 18th birthday photo book
Once you have gone through your collection of photos with a fine-tooth comb and have selected your favourites (or the favourites of the 18-year-old in your life!), designing your 18th birthday photo book will give you the opportunity to go back in time to when your teenager was a little one. Now that you’ve selected your photos, put your memories photo album together in the order of your choosing. Perhaps you’d like to tell a story from the beginning by placing a picture of the day your teenager was born on the first page, or maybe you’d prefer to start your album with the most recent photos and go back in time. If time is not as important as milestones are, group your photos of special occasions together in the way that you find the most aesthetically pleasing or that you think your teenager would like to see first. If you’ve simply chosen photos that you love and are unsure of the date or context, group similar photos together on the same page. Also take the format of your photos into consideration. Organise an array of landscape and portrait photos together in a design that fits the specifications of the page as well as your personal style. Once you have an idea in your head, begin creating your 18th birthday photo book using our online editing tool. Simply select your format of choice, then click the ‘Create your photo book’ button. Make sure your photos fit our photo requirements, then upload your favourites and drag them to your desired photo fields. Our automatic photo retouching tool will ensure that your birthday photo album is perfectly formatted before it is sent to print. We have photo book ideas for many milestone birthdays as well, such as 21st birthday photo albums and 50th birthday photo albums.
