When creating a photo book, let your pictures tell the story
- Keep it simple: Don't let design compete with photos.
- Be consistent: Choose one typeface and one color scheme for the book.
- Spell-check your captions: Errors cheapen your book.
- Add scrapbook mementos: Scan tickets, menus and souvenirs with your images to give them context.
- Edit your photos: Crop, and correct the color for the main photo; supplement with smaller shots.
- Let your pictures tell their story.
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Back from your vacation with oodles of photographs? Making a photo book with snaps is easy thanks to Snapfish, iPhoto, Blurb, MyPublisher and others. Here are tips from National Geographic editors and photographers:
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HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
FANS CAN MINGLE WITH THE 'STARS' AT MADAME TUSSAUDS' WAX MUSEUM
The seriously starstruck can find their favorite celebrities in cement, in wax, in lights — and occasionally in the flesh — around this Hollywood Boulevard entertainment crossroads that is home to Madame Tussauds' newest wax museum, which opened this month next to Grauman's Chinese Theatre, steps away from Oscar's Kodak Theatre and in the path of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The place is a shrine to Hollywood's elite and it comes with all the trappings — music, sound bites, high fashion, paparazzi, applause, a red carpet and Joan Rivers.
The stars come complete with accessories: The Red Sea parts on demand in front of Charlton Heston; near Alfred Hitchcock, a shower curtain hides a cutout in a bathtub; a bicycle next to Lance Armstrong puts you both in the Tour de France; and Tom Hanks is just hanging out on a bus stop bench waiting for company. www.madametussauds.com
— Associated Press
AN AMERICAN CULINARY ICON
JULIA CHILD'S KITCHEN EXHIBIT AT SMITHSONIAN STILL A HUGE DRAW
In the new movie "Julie & Julia," Julia Child's kitchen makes only a brief appearance. But at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, the famed kitchen of America's most beloved culinary icon is a star attraction and has been since it was meticulously reassembled in 2002 after being removed from her home in Cambridge, Mass.
Though Child died in 2004 at 91, hordes of visitors continue to fill the kitchen exhibit all day, says co-curator Rayna Green. The exhibit includes snippets from Child's shows, documents and other memorabilia. www.si.edu
— Washington Post
