How to turn your child’s art into a photo book
Are you wondering what to do with all the artwork your kids bring back from school or kindergarten? It was once a coveted item on the refrigerator. Suddenly, you discover that there’s way too much artwork and too little space.
Instead of feeling guilty about the idea of throwing away the precious photos of your child, why do you not offer them a brand new chance to live with an exquisite photo album?
A timeless keepsake that will be enjoyed by generations to cherish (and the perfect heirloom should they become famous creative! ). Learn the steps below to transform your child’s art into a stunning and display-worthy photo book.
Six steps to transform your child’s drawings into a beautiful book of photos
1. Get organized
2. Digital copies are available of every document you can
3. Choose your size and format
4. Files you upload to MILK Design Studio. MILK Design Studio
5. Start designing
6. Create a fun and unique experience
1. Get organized
It’s time to start the task of tackling that mountain-high pile of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and more. We’d recommend sitting down with your child and working with them to choose the top pieces of artwork that they’d like to showcase permanently in a photo book format. You could keep things simple and include a bit of everything in no particular order, or you could consider arranging the art by theme. Perhaps your child has a knack for portraits of people or flowers or takes an abstract approach. Maybe you’d like to divide things by medium: paint, crayons, pencils, or chalk. Or you could opt for displaying the art across a book in chronological order to show how their style and skill have developed over time.
If you are reading this post before your child starts taking home a collection of artwork, congratulations! Take this as a signal to start organizing your home in the early days and begin keeping a list of your most loved paintings today by scanning them with a traditional scanner or snapping a picture with your smartphone.
2. Get digital copies of each masterpiece
Once you’ve got all your child’s artwork organized, it’s time to get digitized copies of everything for easy uploading later. You can either use a traditional scanner or a photo scanning app or take a photo from your phone or camera. Photos are a great option for any 3D art creation.
MILK Tip: If using a camera or phone, ensure that you set the image against an uncluttered background and take photos in natural light whenever possible. You can cut the ground at a later time or leave it in to enhance the aesthetics.
3. Select your size and format
Now, it’s time to choose the format and size of your photo book. For children’s artwork, we recommend our Softcover Photo Books or Premium Photo Books.
We have Softcover Photo Books, which are an inexpensive option that’s sturdy and lightweight. The size is medium and includes the possibility of having up to 200 pages of paper. It’s the ideal form of collectible if you are thinking of creating regular keepsakes for the work of your children.
The premium Photo Books are available in both large and medium formats. Crafted with care use, a hardcover made of fabric to increase durability, section-sewn binding to ensure longevity, and archival-quality papers that will not degrade or change color as they age. This range can really bring the artist’s artwork to life.
4. Upload your files into the MILK Design Studio
After choosing your size and format, you’re ready to start uploading all the digitized copies of your child’s artwork. You can upload the files directly from your computer, Google Photos, Google Drive, Dropbox, or Facebook. You can also log into your account on mobile and upload photos directly from your phone. If you had already created folders to organize the images beforehand, and they should all be in order once you’ve imported them. If not, we recommend ordering everything now to make it easier to create.
A MILK TIP: We suggest uploading your photos in high-resolution JPEG images at 300 dpi and higher to get the best printing results. To verify how high the resolution of an image is on Windo, right-click on the image file, then select Properties, then Details. On a Mac, start the file in Preview and choose Tools, after which you can adjust the size.
5. Start designing
It’s time to get creative and start designing your child’s art photo book. Our Designer Templates lend themselves perfectly to the beautiful display of their creativity and imagination. Intentionally designed with plenty of white space, they will really highlight the art, not clutter it.
You can create each page by hand, or if you’re a time-poor parent and need to get things accomplished quickly, you can use automatic fill options. It allows you to select the number of pictures you’d like per spread (we’d suggest a single image per space,d). Then, our intelligent-filling engine will choose the most appropriate templates that match the dimensions and the angle of every page that will fill every page of your album for you. Then, you can make any necessary adjustments to each spread or utilize our transform tool for free to remove any unwanted borders that may have formed while photographing or scanning the artwork.
6. Give your ideas a fresh twist
Finally, you can add an extra touch by way of text boxes to make your photo book truly unique. Title the artwork, make note of when and where it was created, or bring your child’s imagination back to life by including a description – in their own words – of each piece. This small but meaningful insight into their creative mind at a specific moment in time will be something to treasure truly.
There you have it. Six easy steps to turn your child’s artwork into a timeless photo book. While the traditional development milestones to record are the first steps and the first days at school, it’s the little things like celebrating your child’s art that can become a beloved treasure in your memory collection. Start creating yours today.
