There were reports earlier this month that the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China are just 5 short months away. So, it was with great excitement that I found a story about an Olympic athlete that visited China last fall.

Another creative use of Shutterfly’s photo books are to create panoramic layouts from two facing ‘full bleed’ pages, where the pictures go right to the edge, bleeding off the page.
“Look Around (UP Panoramas)” by K G Hill

If you swore you saved your photo book to a specific category like “Travel” or “Other”, but can’t find it anywhere, don’t despair. Here’s how you can quickly retrieve it again.

There are two easy ways to find the types of books you are looking for. One way is to search by categories, the other is to search by tags. Read on for step-by-step instructions.

Ivwhy’s “trucks” is a simply laid out book that was meant to interest her son in learning his numbers through photos of trucks.
The back of the photo book contains photos of her son’s toy trucks while the rest of the story features ‘real’ trucks she must have seen in the neighborhood.

The current book featured on the Shutterfly Gallery home page is JessiW’s “When I Grow Up” which took simple single picture layouts to write a story about what her son might be when he grows up – a chef or a veterinarian or maybe an ophthalmologist?