are you looking to create a scrapbook
featuring your ancestors or your
heritage we'll Shutterfly is a great
service to do that and I'm going to show
you how happy I'm definitely with family
history fanatics and we hope you
understand DNA climb your family tree
and write your ancestors stories which
includes scrapbooking so let's hop over
to Shutterfly so you can see some of the
cool features that we have in creating
scrapbooks so I've logged into
Shutterfly and on the home page and I'm
gonna go to photo books and I am going
to go to all sizes now all sizes now has
one of my favorite things they have
portrait orientation eight-and-a-half by
eleven books I like this size better on
my bookshelf so there are a number of
templates that you can choose for your
project so I'm going to go up here and I
am going to choose simply black and
simply black I could do neutrals I'm
just gonna choose something to get
starting again image inside 11 by 8
which is it I'm gonna do you
personalized and if there's ever a sale
going on you'll see the amounts right
there
and now I'm ready to start my book now I
have a blank book and I can click on
these little arrows on this side to see
page orientation right now they just
basically have full screen images you
can also switch it a layout over here on
the Left what do you need in a scrapbook
well you need pictures I'm going to
advise you to filter and downsize your
photo collection before you send it over
to Shutterfly but I'm just gonna go
ahead and grab a number of pictures
throughout the years to give you an idea
of how this works so I'm going to drag
them over to my workspace now one of the
things Shutterfly is going to do after
it gets them all uploaded is it's gonna
ask you if you you want to
automatically insert your images into
the book I don't really recommend this
we're gonna give it a try so you can see
what I'm talking about but I don't
recommend it now what is the problems
with the autofill is that in they're not
always putting the picture too in the
order that they should go with I don't
necessarily think that that picture is
the best one for the cover and it's
repeated again inside I do like this
arrangement here too you can see my
mother as she transforms but this
picture doesn't go with that one very
well and now we have baby pictures after
so just don't do the autofill I think
it's really bad so let me take that off
and then we're going to work through how
to actually arrange her now if I come up
here to the arrange tab I can actually
delete pictures right here I kind of
like that arrangement one of the things
I could do is take this picture ah find
it in my gallery down here and drag it
and drop it up here so this is kind of
nice oh that's good they got the
pictures there but I want more pictures
in that spread I want all of those
together and I'll show you how in a bit
so now I have some basic pages going on
and I'm gonna go to the storyboard view
and I'm gonna rearrange some things so
first I'm gonna make this a spread to
see there I'm gonna make this so that I
want all four of those pictures across
that page and I'm gonna do the same
thing with graduation and with
baton-twirling I'm gonna go back to
arrange so I wanted to move these pages
around and so I'm going to click in the
bottom so these two aren't as spread
unfortunately they're single pages so I
can move a single page up there and then
actually brought both of them and let's
see
I want to move this layout more here so
you can rearrange your pages in this
view I really want the graduation to be
sort of the last one of this series so
I'm gonna go back to storyboard and I'm
going to start adding pictures the way I
think they should be done so I like
these pictures right here this is a baby
an older baby picture and this is a baby
picture now these are duplicate I'm
gonna make sure I take one off I do want
to leave the photo and then I have two
of the line pictures I don't need both
of them but I mean go ahead and drag
that one over and when it says it can't
be added to the page well that's when we
need to go to the Edit Page because we
want to let this page know that actually
want to have more pictures on there so
just try a layout for now it's okay if
the pictures aren't where you want them
to be and go back to storyboard and the
duplicate those happen when you don't
arrange your pictures and well in the
folder before you bring them up on to
the Shutterfly website now in this
layout I want it to be a spread I really
would like to get all the pictures um
here but one of the problems is if I
switch to this one some people are gonna
get cut off for sure and I don't have
everybody in the picture you see okay
somebody's gonna get left out I'm gonna
need to get a different layout or I can
go to advanced editing turn that on and
I can make this picture the size it
needs to be and then shrink it using
these handles so you just keep playing
with those handles these handles right
here I've lost them over there and I'm
actually going to shrink it so it's just
that ynp
I think that looks nice if you want to
tilt your picture just because you want
to add a little more visual interest you
can do that and there you go with that
layout so now I'm going to go to another
one and tweak it so here we have two
pages on one side and two pages on the
other so on this left side I'm going to
choose a different layout I also like
that it added a little border so let's
go ahead and do the same thing on the
other side so now I have spaces to go
ahead and write a caption so let's go
ahead and do that we're gonna turn off
the advanced editing and just go to
normal editing and now I'm gonna start
typing go ahead and give as much details
as you can onto these layouts because
this is like writing on the back of the
picture if you don't identify who the
wet to win there why and how then your
family isn't going to appreciate these
pictures it's just nice pictures but it
doesn't mean a whole heck of a lot now
let's see you don't really like that
picture is here you can click on it and
drag it and swap it and so now it's down
there you can add some filters to your
photos and find the one you like the
best and now of course I need to change
where the text ghost is that one is
really penny about one year old at the
and bird house I want to make it bigger
bought text so it's easy to read so now
it's about twenty point five that's
pretty nice and I'm going to head and
I'm going to make that justified left
and then you can just keep adding in all
the text around here so let's say you're
not too thrilled with that background I
think it's a little bit dark click get
more backgrounds if you see an S by then
they're gonna be a little extra but you
can filter bike occasion collection
styles or colors and I went to filter
you should I just think sometimes you
gotta throw in some beige and I'm
looking for something that might be a
soft beige and add that to my project
and then I can drag that to the
background and now it's tan and that
looks nice especially with those black
borders now there are so many more
things that I can teach you about
Shutterfly but I wanted you to get going
I wanted you to know how to get in to
the Shutterfly book I wanted you to know
a little bit about how to do arranging
editing changing out the backgrounds
once you have all of your pictures in
place then you can go ahead and hit
publish and or Add to Cart and that's
publish and then purchase your books
there are a lot of sales that happen on
Shutterfly so be sure to check those out
and if you want to do any vamped
scrapbooking using Photoshop Elements
check out this playlist here and if you
want to learn how to write those stories
to put on your ancestor scrapbook pages
click here