Your baby’s first year is a momentous event in life that is worthy of preserving in multiple photo books. Creating your very first photo book for baby is fun and exciting, especially if this infant is your first born! This project allows you to express the love you have for your child, and also your creativity.
A photo book is an excellent way to keep track of all of the amazing, wonderful and special moments in the first year of your child’s life. This photo book will become a treasured keepsake that you will cherish, and love looking back on through many years to come. When baby is all grown up and has children of their own, you can pass on the photo book of their first year to evoke many happy memories of childhood.
To help you get started in creating a photo book for your baby’s first year, here are some great top tips…
1. Explore The Design Options
It’s a good idea to explore the variety of different baby photo book design options that are available. You need to consider if you want the luxury hardcover photo book cover to be printed or fabric. Or if you prefer a baby photo book that has a soft cover. Also, do you want a bespoke personalised photo album, or a photo book that is predesigned?
2. Get Snapping
As a loving parent, you’ll find it hard to resist the unlimited photo opportunities that present themselves on a daily basis. You’ll want to capture every second of your super cute and adorable baby as they reach milestones, on your camera and video devices.
Try to avoid getting carried away when taking snaps, as you’ll miss out on enjoying the moment of the experiences. You’ll also end up with a massive amount of photos that you will need to spend hours looking through, to pick out the best ones to be included in your baby’s first year photo books. 
3. Get The Family Involved
Ask your family and friends to contribute to baby’s first year photo book. Getting your best friend, parents and siblings to take photos of your baby means that you don’t have sole responsibility for all of the photographs in the photo books. When you’re not behind the camera, make yourself available for photo opportunities with baby.
When you’re compiling your collection of photos, to feature in baby’s first year photo books, it’s a lovely idea to include photos of baby with family members and friends. As your child grows up, he/she will love looking at this special book and listening to stories about each of the people who played a part in the first year of their life. 
4. Celebrate Monthly Milestones
The thought of creating a photo book of an entire year can be daunting and overwhelming. By taking it one month at a time you’ll be able to focus on specific milestones as they happen. Once you have a month’s worth of baby photos you can pick out your favourites, and set them aside until you’re ready to put baby’s first photo album together. 
5. Showcase A Selection Of 1st Experiences
Everything in baby’s first year of life is an exciting 1st experience. Their first steps, first toothy smile, first trip to the beach, and first play date, all deserve to be featured in the pages of your baby’s first year photo book.
Pick out a selection of photos of your favourite baby’s 1st experiences and showcase these in a special way in the photo book. 
6. Be Selective
A full year of memories creates a ton of photos to look through and organise! It’s a good idea to have a disciplined approach to selecting and discarding photos. You don’t have to create your photo book in one sitting. Focusing on a couple of pages each month should be sufficient to stay ahead of the game. 
7. Choose Your Favorite Cover Shot
Once you’ve selected all of your favourite baby photos, you’ll need to pick out the one that is good enough to feature on the cover. If you really can’t decide which of baby’s first year photos you love the most, you can always create a photo book cover that features a montage, or no photo at all. 
8. Experiment With Different Photo Layouts
To make each page of baby’s first year photo books stand out, use different photo designs, and a different number of images on each page. You can personalise the layout of baby’s first photo books with up to nine images, and also include photos with siblings and family portraits.
And if you run out of space in your luxury bespoke baby photo album, you can add some extra pages. 
9. Add Some Mementos
Mementos are perfect for enhancing the photos in baby’s first year photo books. Items like baby’s birth announcement, greeting card messages, and travel tickets can be easily copied and scanned, and included in the photo albums. 
10. Optimise The Photos With Text
To create a truly unique baby’s first year photo book, add text to the page layouts. Tell the story of your baby’s first year of life in anecdotes, comments and photo captions. If you’re not confident about your storytelling abilities, ask a family member or close friend to help you tell the tale of baby’s great adventure.
