How to make your own DIY photo book | Step by Step Bookbinding Tutorial

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:45 Decisions & Ideas
5:10 Design
7:50 Printing
9:35 Folding & Assembly
10:45 Piercing & Stitching
15:30 Glueing & Decorating
17:50 Making the Cover
20:00 Assembling the Book
20:30 Memorabilia Pocket
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@kalie_bee 11 ай бұрын

Where am I these past years? Why am I seeing this right now? Kidding aside. Thank you so much for sharing this video. I am looking for tutorials for me to make my own photobook for my family's photos ☺️

@sastrydasigi7010 12 күн бұрын

Wow, that is an amazing job! The result justifies, no doubt.

@fireruby1882 10 ай бұрын

THANK YOU THANK YOU I wanna put a picture on a hardcover and idk how to do that! THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING AND EVERYTHING WAS SO THOROUGH 💙

@maccsi 2 жыл бұрын

you absolutely knocked that out of the park. speechless. can't wait to do something like this one day

@DanM_Photography 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful work, sir, and thanks for your generosity in sharing the process.

@carol-annpickvance3671 Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness! Thank you for sharing this process. It looks so beautiful! I am really tempted to try this one day.

@yustaanna5009 2 жыл бұрын

This is so beautiful. I can't wait to try and make one for my travels to Nepal. Definitely the best photobook tutorial on KZfaq!

@Switnessie 2 жыл бұрын

Best photobook tutorial so far! So detailed❤

@DebSmithPhotographyadelaide 9 ай бұрын

I loved watching this process. Brilliant 👏

@Sarah-ho1oi 6 ай бұрын

I love this but as someone who works in book conservation: if you want your books to last, don't use tape for the book cloth. If you check the grain direction of the book board and you use a press as it dries (putting it under a pile of heavy books counts as a press!), PVA glue isn't going to warp the book. Tape is acidic and it can and will damage elements of your book.

@adnanislam6823 11 күн бұрын

Okay then what to use instead of this.?

@alleranothere 2 жыл бұрын

Always wanted to make a photobook! this is lovely and very helpful thank you! :D

@vsakusam 14 күн бұрын

I love this so much! Thank you for this video

@gyorgyiantal697 6 ай бұрын

Great work! Thank you for sharing this tutorial!🙏

@wayneyellow5843 2 жыл бұрын

That's amazing! Thank you for sharing.

@Studioimageron Жыл бұрын

What an inspiring video. Thank you for sharing this wealth of knowledge!!

@almudd 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful! Amazing tutorial thank you

@user-dn1sy9bd5w 7 ай бұрын

Well done ! And clearly explained, thank you !

@crackedphonescreens922 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you for sharing your art book.

@alecia8852 2 жыл бұрын

Wow- just gorgeous

@mai_chan00 2 жыл бұрын

I love it! I want to try this.

@lilianbaun2231 2 ай бұрын

Cool. So beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

@sanjanashah6675 2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for...thankyou!!!

@munnaza23 Жыл бұрын

This is so cool. From designing to having a book in ones hand! Really inspiring 💌💫

@maverick493 3 жыл бұрын

I love the idea of this but I don't think I'd ever actually do it- both laziness and the tendency for my work to look like a 5 year old created it 😀 . but I am tempted! I loved watching the process and the end result is so impressive!

@ispoetry Жыл бұрын

Thanks for tons of great info so elegantly presented. Please note 21:27 "Souble" sided paper

@luisinyee8190 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, thats really an amazing work, thank you for making this tutorial,I want to diy my son photobook

@AmoraBrown 9 ай бұрын

Definitely going to try your method!

@error60091 2 жыл бұрын

super cool... would so try this if i had a printer! thanks for sharing!

@yvonnetucker1416 Жыл бұрын

BEAUTIFUL LOVE THIS

@SarthakDasgupta 8 ай бұрын

You are truly a Guru!

@pinksweetheartlover2539 Жыл бұрын

So beautiful !!!!!

@BeautifulMotives Жыл бұрын

Your amazing! this was so amazing thanks for sharing

@KuyaCharlsTv 3 жыл бұрын

thankyou so much for this very helpful tutorial

@arlenidaloz399 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome. I wish I could do that. 😍

@hddlheme Жыл бұрын

Happy to see you using photos from Sri Lanka on your Tutorial.

@juna61 Жыл бұрын

Hats off to you! That is some proper way of doing things!

@PhotoBookGuru Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@iandavis1355 Жыл бұрын

BRAVO!!! Great work, very impressive and inspirational. Thanks.

@PhotoBookGuru Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@videopubproduit Ай бұрын

Just woow, thank you so much bro 🙏

@moniquebelier6024 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great video. Just what I needed. I would love a video about the transfer on the cover. Can’t find a good video about this proces the way you did it in your video. Kind regards, Monique

@CarolineFraser 6 ай бұрын

fantastic! well done

@chazztesa 2 жыл бұрын

AWESOME!

@alexduckworth2636 2 жыл бұрын

this looks better than any photo book printing site I've looked at

@marieclairengwe8166 2 жыл бұрын

Good morning sir i'm very grateful for the content.

@amingtatlo4048 2 жыл бұрын

This is very nice and comprehensive. Thanks for sharing. 👍👏

@PhotoBookGuru 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@cbcphotography9781 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@ssh9040 6 ай бұрын

beautiful 🤩

@abdellaouistdiy5889 2 жыл бұрын

Really😁😁 it look gorgeouss

@butij.mdakane2909 2 жыл бұрын

Very great video, your work is very beautiful and neat. What material did you use to cover the spine of the book?

@paulcrutchley4348 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the video, very informative. May I ask please the tracing paper which you printed onto where do you purchase that from?

@novepipps 2 жыл бұрын

GREAT VIDEO 👌👌👌

@terencemorrissey4413 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic

@jordanlotus188 2 жыл бұрын

hi! very nice and informative. you are really grate.!! Marry Christmas in advance.

@jordanlotus188 11 ай бұрын

Please upload mre detail videos for each steps it will bevery helpful.

@rapunzeli1 Жыл бұрын

Hi Stefan, thank you so much for sharing this, your book looks absolutely brilliant! I am wondering if you have any resources you could please share on how to prepare the pages for printing the signatures when a double spread is involved? I have ordered bookbinding materials to start making my own photo books but I am really struggling to prepare the signatures because my book has a few photographs that spread over two pages. I designed it in facing pages in Affinity and when I try to export single pages it all gets messed up and I cannot figure out how to fix it, which has put a major stall to the process 😞Any tips or resources you could share would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

@Gothumanity 8 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you for that tutorial. I greatly needed that as I am in the process of doing my portfolio. Wonderful photobook you've got.

@elaacosta Ай бұрын

Adobe in design was your software for this project? Beautiful ❤

@multi-media-services 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@VannApragal 3 жыл бұрын

That was fantastic!

@awesomecommenter 2 жыл бұрын

very nice 😊

@user-jt5vm3mi1w Жыл бұрын

dats cool

@dawidw.6016 2 жыл бұрын

So beautiful

@PhotoBookGuru 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@zerabeats 3 жыл бұрын

Nice idea I make photobook in kenya

@AmberHoubara 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! Thank you so so much for all these epic tutorials! I have already made the seamless lay-flat book for an assignment for my Uni and it came out amazing! I would love to try and make this book as well, and was wondering how did you print the design on the linen cover? is it a paper you can iron into the cloth? It looks so beautiful! thank you so so much again!

@AmberHoubara 2 жыл бұрын

I've found the video thank you!!

@israelbelachew4360 Жыл бұрын

Bravo

@good__enough Жыл бұрын

Wow

@plants5743 7 ай бұрын

It’s super important to make sure the grain is running the correct direction so you don’t get warp

@samchaudhary3721 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Wonderful jobs. I am pretty new learning? Do you know of any Free Photo Editor Software I can use please? Thanks a lot!!

@attrell64 3 ай бұрын

This is really great but can you answer one question pls? What happens with the 'other half page' of the transparency sheet? Presumably left blank (unless it just so happens that you need another map on the opposite side? Does a blank sheet not disrupt the appearance?

@abdiato21 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you i hope one day i'm successfull🥰🥺

@josebrivera1716 3 ай бұрын

Wow! Excellent Video. Great, Excellent work. You have convinced me never to DIY a photo book. I will send my photobook out to print. I would get it all wrong if I did it myself.

@sir2657 2 жыл бұрын

On my book il put little poems under photos poems that il write. It's a very emotional thing my photo book....its all that is saved from a almost past life

@gracechia4529 10 ай бұрын

Hi, nice video❤ may i know what type of paper you use? 😊

@farl.796 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing with us your very inspiring work of art! May I ask if how many days it took you to make your own DIY photo book?

@PhotoBookGuru 2 жыл бұрын

the physical "making" took less than a day but designing it can take much longer. I do a little every day.

@martinvangog1912 Жыл бұрын

Which software to use? Affinity Publisher or Designer? Thanks in advance.

@rosannacortazio Жыл бұрын

Hello! Beautiful work! Sorry bo bother you, but I have noticed that you have used a double-sided tape sheet and I cannot find those anywhere. Any chance you can please share with us the link for it? Thank you so much!

@jarisajones7402 2 жыл бұрын

I just ran across your video! I really wanted to create a photobook for my family reunion but I find that using different websites doesn't give me as much design freedom as I would like, plus it can get pretty expensive. I started looking into creating my own and seriously this video is the best I've seen! Can I ask where you got your materials for this project? And what would you recommend if you want to do a gloss book cover instead of using book linen? Also how did you know how much space to leave between the front and back cover and the spine?

@PhotoBookGuru 2 жыл бұрын

You need to research and test materials, the same papers that worked in my printers might not be the best for yours so it's hard to tell. For a gloss book cover you need a lamination and double sided tape, it won't work with PVA glue. You need to measure the book inner pages when it's printed before creating the cover

@fotocraftprintscollections8822 3 жыл бұрын

Hi what kind of paper are you using? And where can i buy that kind of paper? Hope you'll notice may questions. Thank you.

@lioandgatoula 3 жыл бұрын

Great Work! I'd like to perform same. Are you using Original Epson Ink or Refillable?

@PhotoBookGuru 3 жыл бұрын

Original

@noaisaabdulazis577 3 жыл бұрын

Hi. What type of paper did you use?

@Tagabanaybanay559 Жыл бұрын

Thats what i want

@94mroliver Ай бұрын

Thank you for tutorials (Would be so much easier to concentrate tho without the background music)

@StevenRalte 29 күн бұрын

Hello @Photo Book Guru. What software are you using for this?

@anndash3278 Ай бұрын

hi. is there an easy way to work out page numbers order when you print? eg when i print the pages sometimes come out in the wrong order :( ta x

@robbinkelly2565 2 жыл бұрын

How did you set up affinity publisher/printer to print your pages so you could make 3 page signatures. Cannot figure it out. Love your videos

@PhotoBookGuru 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't, I exported the pages and used my printer setting to create a booklet layout

@sofianeboudjelouah1099 Жыл бұрын

Jolie vidéo Svp quelle logiciel que ta utilisé pour le design

@wellnesswaveph 10 ай бұрын

Hi what printer are you using and what can you suggest? Quite lost in the coverpage, hope there’s a separte video for the heat press for the cover design/photo

@PhotoBookGuru 10 ай бұрын

Inkjet printer. A3. the more colours the better but even basic 4 colour inkjets will do a great job with the right setting and right paper

@jelainemizuide2411 2 жыл бұрын

hi what software do you use?

@dwiprasasti. Жыл бұрын

what type of printer are you using? Thank

@survivalextraordinaire3572 5 ай бұрын

I know the video is two years old at this point but I am really struggling to find other videos that could explain how to do what I'm attempting to do. I want to do something very similar to this but instead of the pages being the photos themselves, I want to be able to add photos to it over time. This video is extremely helpful though, I think i just need to do roughly the same thing, but leave the pages blank and add in those clear corner photo holders. Aaaaa I don't know what I'm doing!

@frannadomingo1218 4 ай бұрын

What kind of paper did you used?

@titot.vt.v.1142 2 жыл бұрын

Cool video what was the cost off all this by anychance I just wanna know so when I'm ready to try this.. just a ruff estimate

@PhotoBookGuru 2 жыл бұрын

It depends on whether you have any tools, printer. If I only count the consumables, paper and ink, then around £80.

@adriang.4628 Ай бұрын

can you link the paper you used?

@noxerone 2 жыл бұрын

Was your paper short grain?

@MrDaviddesouza 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. What is head band and from where can I get it?

@PhotoBookGuru 10 ай бұрын

in the Uk you can get it from Ratchford and Amazon sometimes has it too

@dianedeguerny 3 жыл бұрын

really nice job, well done ! Can you give an estimation of the price of the cartridges you used for the print (just to estimate the cost of a "DIY" photobook). Thanks a lot for the time to film all this process !

@PhotoBookGuru 3 жыл бұрын

I would say for these 110 pages one full cartridge. Which was around £50

@dianedeguerny 3 жыл бұрын

I have the exact same color problem with an Epson XP-960, printer: designed exclusively for Epson paper (there is a generic profile only for standard paper 80gr... And even with the archival Mat from Epson : colors are not good (2 screens with monthly calibration...)). If I try to print on photo paper from another brand (even Canon): the results are delusional! I never had this problem with my old Canon........ Shame on Epson ! One way to resolve the colors problem is making curves in photoshop as you mentioned (but really complicated to change skin tones !), but... some others too : -- purchase of a probe (eg: i1 Studio): you can also make a profile by paper you have (one for the archival mat, one for the usual 80gr, one for the glossy paper..etc), but this requires having a perfectly calibrated screen ! (which is very expensive !). -- there are service providers who calibrate printers (you need to deactivate the printer paper profiles, print a target on the desired paper(s) and send it to the provider. He will send you back you ICC profiles fort the paper... Interesting economically if you use official cartridges (regular on the color) and the same papers! -- PermaJet proposes a service (free I think) to calibrate your printer with their papers. The range of paper is gigantic! And to pop colors, the coated paper is a good alternative (colors will be more saturated. Some papers are Recto/verso, other only on one side). Hope this tips can help you for... the next photo book ^^

@dhaldu1946 11 ай бұрын

hi! what are the materials you used? thank you

@tigertay10 Жыл бұрын

This is amazing! What a beautiful book! Really want to try this but you lost me with the stitching signatures part. It’s really Confusing.

@PhotoBookGuru Жыл бұрын

It is a lot of trial and error and it's impossible to slowly show the whole process in one video but there are lots of other vids on youtube for stitching.

@tigertay10 Жыл бұрын

@@PhotoBookGuru thank you, i will definitely give this a try!

@elaacosta Ай бұрын

Heat transfer paper into fabric please more info on that if possible 🙏🙏🏼🙏🏽🌱🌸💐❇️❇️❇️

@kyrahjoieaguilar27 3 жыл бұрын

What ink have you used for this? Planning to make one

@PhotoBookGuru 3 жыл бұрын

Pigment based

@magdamalinowska5454 2 жыл бұрын

How many pages and spreads do you have? Do they need to be in even numbers in order for the signatures to work?

@PhotoBookGuru 2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@majaisakszon1475 3 жыл бұрын

I would like to know where I can get a few things that you used making your photobook. Like the tiny theared ends you glued on when you had finished sawing and glueing. How do you call these? Could you make a list in all that you used?

@PhotoBookGuru 3 жыл бұрын

You can buy all of those in bookbinding shops or online. Don't use Amazon, they barely have anything. The tiny things at the ends are called headbands. the mesh on the spine is called mull here (I think it's different in the US) and the owl is the tool to punch holes. The rest of the tools are generic, rulers, knife etc

@majaisakszon1475 3 жыл бұрын

@@PhotoBookGuru I live in Sweden thanks so much.

@AdamCasada Жыл бұрын

@@PhotoBookGuru Isn't it an awl?