Digital Scrapbooks and Photo Books Can Suckit

Hmph. Hmph. Hmph.

I love the idea of digital scrapbooks and photo books but I’m really bad at making them. Bad at taking the time to make them AND bad at the actual making of them when I do make time for them.

I made JMP a little tag book type photo book for Christmas. It turned out pretty OK but it was a royal pain in the butt. And not because the site I used had bad tools, they don’t. They have good tools.

I tried making a Blurb book a couple of months ago and cursed them before I made it past the first step. I blamed them but really, it was probably me and my impatient self.

I’ve tried Shutterfly a half dozen times and always given up after about a half hour of frustration.

Yea, it’s me, alright.

I want to just click the pictures and have them all appear neatly organized with no cutesy bubbles around them or headers or funky text boxes. I don’t have time for those funky text boxes and clip arty things.

I did finally finish a book on Shutterfly today made from my 2012 Instagram photos. It was hell. Pure hell. But it was free (except for shipping) and I’m pretty sure when the book arrives, I’m going to love it.

But I don’t think I’m going to do it again, unless I have another free coupon code. I think I’m going to just go over to printstagram and print out the photos I want to use and then drop the suckers into an old fashioned photo album. I just can’t handle the frustration of trying to create a pretty album with all of those pretty templates.

Sheesh.