Candy Hearts Photocard

Find this new background by creating a new project and choosing the Holiday theme, and then select Valentine’s Day. Choose a layout. Insert a picture and type a message. Review, order and send a smile.

But hurry, time is running out to get them by Valentine’s.

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We say a new year is plenty reason to say “hey” to all those people on your mailing list. But if you want more incentive, here’s why the Inkubook team is in favor of the New Year’s greeting card:

• Unique: Inkubookers like to stand out. Most people send out greeting cards in December, so your card will be a sweet surprise to ring in the new year.
• Versatile: “Happy New Year” is the new “Season’s Greetings.” No matter what religious holidays your friends and family celebrate, a new year’s card sends just the right message.
• Fun: Since you’re not tied to a specific holiday, you can get creative with your card. Inkubook has loads of backgrounds to choose from, no matter what sort of feel you’re going for:

Don’t drop the ball! Be one of the first to welcome your auld (and new) acquaintances into 2012 by making your photo greeting cards today (and check out Facebook and Twitter for our latest promotions so you can save when you send).

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When you get to the editor you’ll see text boxes now have “adorners” or little circles around the perimeter. Grab the adorner and adjust the box to the location and size and shape you want it to be.

When you’re ready to type, click once, the box will turn orange and zoom in for you to enter your text.

If you want to add a text box, you’ll see new buttons in your tool bar which is either located above your book or to the left of your book. If you’re tool bars aren’t set up the way you like them, you can switch side for top or top for side, by clicking the icon next to the 1, 2 and 3 icons just below the BUY button.

Give it a try and tell us what you think.

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Copying a project is one feature that makes it even easier to personalize your photo books while saving yourself the time and trouble of creating an entirely new project.

Sign in, select the project that you want to duplicate and click “Copy Book.” If the option is available, select hardcover or softcover format and click “Copy.”

It’s as easy as that! You can now swap in other photos, backgrounds – personalize it however you like. Just be sure to check each page to make sure photos are still positioned the way you wanted them and text is still the where you placed it.

Ideas for Using the “Copy Book” Feature

1. Family Reunions

As much as you love your uncle and cousins, you might want to make a book of memories that’s personalized for your immediate family. Copying a project lets you select the photos you want and leave out the ones you don’t. Sorry, Uncle Gary.

2. Team Players

Swap in a few pics of your star player for a memento that captures all the season’s highlights – from opening day to the trophy presentation, and all the grass stains in between.

3. Gifts

With a simple text switch (such as “For Grandma” instead of “For Aunt Kay”) and a few visual changes, you can create a unique book for all the members of your family in a matter of minutes. Bonus: It’ll look like you spent hours.

Tell us about the cool ways that you use the “Copy Book” feature by leaving a comment.

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Default Inkubook workspace w/tray on top

On the above image, we’ve circled the button that allows you to move your tray from the default placement at the top of your screen to the left side.

Now with tray on the left

If you’re working on a portrait book or a calendar, you’ll gain some additional workspace by moving your tray to the left. If you’re project is landscape or the large square, you may want to keep your tray anchored at the top for space maximization. Or there’s always personal preference. We just wanted to let you know you have some flexibility in how you work with Inkubook.

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• New Fullscreen button – the beauty of your books are no longer constrained to a little box!
• You get to watch the book widget being built, giving you a much better idea of when it will be ready to share
• By popular demand, sharing book widgets on your own website is back
• Book widgets shared on Facebook work properly for people using a secured connection
• If you change your book after you’ve shared it and want to update the book widget, you only have to wait for the pages that have changed or been added to be rebuilt

GETTING STARTED

Click the pink Share button in the bookshelf, or in the editor:

Inkubook will start building your book widget, showing you what’s going on page-by-page:

Once it’s finished building, you can share your book with your friends:

SHARING YOUR BOOK

Facebook

Click the Post on Facebook button to post your book on your wall:

Maybe you don’t want to share your book with just everybody on Facebook – no problem! Just click the lock at the bottom of the window, and you can restrict who can see your book on your wall to just you, a few specific friends, or a group:

Your blog or website

Clicking the Post on your Blog button will copy the necessary HTML snippet to your clipboard that you’ll need to paste into your blog or website. Once you do, it’ll look something like this:

Making Changes

If you make changes to your book after you’ve shared it and you want those changes to show up on in your book widget, just click the Share button again. Inkubook will rebuild any pages that have changed, add new ones and remove deleted ones. You don’t have to re-post your book widget to Facebook or your blog again; the changes will automatically show up!

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You just can’t live without compiling some of your most cherished memories into a beautiful collage every once in a while, can you? Well, there’s nothing wrong with that. A dazzling photo book is something that you can be proud to share, unlike your other more questionable artistic endeavors, such as karaoke singing and potholder crocheting.

So now that you have become the Picasso of the photo book world, Inkubook has decided to construct a virtual Louvre in honor of your work. We’ve cooked up a new member homepage design, the Inkubook Gallery Bookshelf, which makes it easier to navigate through and find your favorite projects.

Check out the new setup:

All your projects are conveniently displayed in small thumbnail form and categorized by project type. You can find any calendar, photobook or card by simply scrolling through the easy-to-use gallery. With this view, locating, editing and ordering more copies of your favorite project is a cinch.

We noticed that more than a few of our customers had photobook projects called “My Photo Book.” Sound familiar? Another little helpful feature that we’ve added is the ability to rename your projects. Click on your project from the Gallery Bookshelf and rename your project to something more helpful.

So revel in your love for Inkubook. With the Gallery Bookshelf, it’s easier and more fun than ever to make beautiful, lasting keepsakes and gifts with your digital photos. What are you waiting for? Make something gorgeous today!

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That’s right; you can now personalize the spine with your book’s title, with a special message – whatever you like. And the best part is that it won’t cost you extra!

Spine Text Printing not only gives you another way to make your beautiful photo books from Inkubook as unique as possible, but it makes for easy organization and browsing of all your books on your shelf at home.

The Spine Text Printing option is easily customized through your book editing tool.

HOW IT WORKS:

1. To edit the spine of your hardcover photobook, hover over the spine area and click.

2. Your book will flip around to the spine, and the text editor will open.

3. Now you’re ready to give your book a special title so that you’ll always know which photo book you want to grab off the shelf.

To give you a peak at what your books could look like, we had a little fun creating these teaser books during our testing phase:

Forget “almost” – Spine Text Printing is HERE! Hurry on over to Inkubook to start making your next photo book and try out this cool new feature.

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It’s super simple to incorporate Facebook photos into your projects:

1. Upload Photos - From any Inkubook project go GET PHOTOS just like you normally would. Only now, you’ll see a new option for Facebook photos.

 2. Sign-in to Facebook – You will need to provide your Facebook username and password to access your photos.

3. Select Photos – Your photos are organized into the same albums you created in Facebook. Just select the ones you want and click IMPORT. That’s it. Now you’re making gorgeous photo books with your Facebook photos. Gotta “Like” that!

If you still don’t have an Inkubook account, another great reason to join now is that you can create a free account using your Facebook ID. That’s one less website login info that you have to remember.

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Every year around the Holidays, we all have that same problem. There’s always that one person on our list who seems absolutely impossible to shop for. They may love fashion, but they couldn’t get another stitch of clothing in their closets if they tried. Or they may enjoy cooking, but they already own every kitchen gadget known to man. Or maybe they’re just a real wildcard — you know, that person who is so all over the place it would take you and the whole CIA to figure out what to get them. They paint, they dance, they write — they basically do it all, and none of it quite fits together.

What’s a gift giver to do in a situation like this?

Usually, most of us would turn to old faithful, aka, the generic mall gift card. It’s safe, it’s reliable, and hey, it takes all the guesswork out of shopping for that jack-of-all-trades on your list, right? Wrong!

The person receiving the generic gift card from you knows exactly why they’re getting it. They know you had no clue about what they would like. They know the secret behind the generic mall gift card too — we aren’t the only ones.

So give a gift that is truly as versatile as they are: a gift card for a photobook from Inkubook. If they cook, they could turn it into a recipe book. If they are a writer, photographer, or artist, the book could serve as a very professional-looking portfolio for them. But for people like this, you don’t need to tell them what to do with the Inkubook gift card — they will surely find some out-of-the-box way to use it. So let them channel their creativity into a gift they will definitely enjoy.

As all things are with Inkubook, gifting a gift card from us is extremely easy. Just visit the Photo Book Gift Card page to place your order. You can e-mail the card to your loved one, or print it and wrap it up like a traditional gift. And when the lucky recipient is ready to redeem, they just enter the code on their gift card at checkout.

Whew! At least you got the difficult person off the list. One down, and a zillion more to go.

Best of luck with your Holiday shopping!

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