Spice up Your Travel Photo Book with Backgrounds

Author: Charlotte Kughen - Date: Monday 13 October 2008 - Filed under: Inspiration

We Americans are known for our wanderlust. From the early days of the country’s infancy, we felt the need to spread out to find open spaces and see things we hadn’t seen before. Modern conveniences such as automobiles made it even more easy to pack the family into the wood-paneled station wagon to head away from home for a little while. After air travel became accessible to the average person (Joe Six-Pack, as some might say), there was no stopping us.

Some swatches from the Kid’s Travel Adventure collection.

Taking photos goes hand-in-hand with traveling, so we’ve developed a number of interesting travel-themed backgrounds to provide a cute, creative, or cool canvas for your photos.

To start, we have some backgrounds that we think will appeal to our young friends, so when you’re helping your little one make a book about last summer’s trip to the Grand Canyon you have some fun choices. Have a look at the backgrounds to the right for examples.

I love these backgrounds, and I don’t think that anyone over the age of 12 needs to avoid using them just because we’ve labeled them as part of the Kid’s Travel Adventure collection. If bright colors and whimsical illustrations match your style, by all means use them in your photo book.

If something a little more subdued or more tropical fits the tone of your trip, we have two other collections you should check out: the Travel Journal collection and the Family Beach Vacation collection. The Travel Journal backgrounds are all black and white, so your photos can really pop off the page without any strong competition from the background. Family Beach Vacation is designed in hues that will make you think of rolling waves and breezy warm evenings along the coast. Check out these swatches:

Swatches from the Travel Journal collection (left) and Family Beach Vacation collection (right).

I had the good fortune to do some traveling to Europe and Jamaica some time ago. Unfortunately, both trips occurred before I had a digital camera and knew about photo books. But I’ve been working on scanning some of my photos so that I can retroactively make a book about my trips. I’m actually using backgrounds from more than one collection in my book because my trips had such differing feels. The trip to Europe was terrific, but it was rainy as all get out, and those pictures work much better on the more subdued Travel Journal backgrounds. Jamaica couldn’t have been more sunny and beautiful, so those pictures just cry out for some Family Beach Vacation love.

Two pages from the book I’m making about my travels.

Lest you think we’ve forgotten those trips where you just hop in the car and motor off down the road for a few days of dining at greasy spoons and sleeping in roadside motels, fret not. We also have a Road Trip collection that will come into play later this week.

So, what kind of travel do you fancy and what sort of backgrounds suit you best? Start your own Inkubook today and find out!