Disney's Photo Book is a wonderful keepsake of photos from your Disney vacation! With many cover options available, ranging from embossed leather to a custom photo cover, Disney's Photo Book is easily customized to fit your personal style.  Choose from hundreds of pre-defined page layouts, photo frames and sticker options. The standard Photo Book includes 20 pages (10 double-sided sheets).  Up to 40 additional pages can be added at additional cost. 

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Disney's Virtual Photo Book is available as an option, at an additional cost, for any Photo Book ordered from DisneyPhotoPass.com.  The Disney’s Virtual Photo Book must be ordered at the same time as the printed book.  The Virtual Photo Book is a digital replica of your personalized Disney Photo Book will be delivered on a Virtual Photo Book CD inside the back cover of your printed book.  Each Virtual Photo Book includes Disney-themed music and interactive page-turning via the Adobe® Flash plug-in.  Each Virtual Photo Book CD also includes low-resolution JPG versions of each of the pages in your book.  A Limited License allowing you to reprint the pages or use them separately (e.g. as computer desktop wallpaper) is also included on the disc.  For a limited time, you also receive the ability to share your Virtual Photo Book online with friends and family via Facebook. The Share feature is subject to our photo storage limitations and will expire 30 days from the date of your purchase.  However, the Virtual Photo Book Virtual Photo Book CD is yours to keep forever. Please allow up to 72 hours for your Virtual Photo Book to appear in your account for sharing.

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Naming your Photo Book Project

When you first start a Photo Book, you will be prompted to enter project name.  This name will be used to retrieve the book from your list of Saved Projects if you don’t complete the book in one session.  You can enter any name you want in 30 characters or less (e.g. Our 2011 Disney Vacation).

Designing your Cover

Once you enter the Photo Book Builder, you will see a variety of cover designs presented in the bottom bin of the Design Window.  Find the cover design you want and drag the thumbnail of the cover up into the Design Window above.  A description of the cover and the features of your book will be shown in the upper left corner of the window. Once you've chosen your cover design, you can further customize your cover by entering up to two lines of text.  Simply type your text into the boxes on the left side of the window.  Your text, as it will be printed on the cover, will also appear in the main Design Window.  Please make sure to double-check your text for any spelling mistakes.
 
Several of our cover designs also allow you to select a photo to be printed on the cover.  These are called Custom Photo Cover books.  If you select one of these cover designs, you will also need to select one of your photos from the Photos tab located in the bottom bin of the Design Window.  Simply find the photo you want printed on your cover and drag it up into the photo area identified on the cover.  You can also upload additional photos from your computer or claim additional PhotoPass cards at this time.  Each of the Custom Photo Cover designs can accommodate horizontal or vertical photos.  You can change the orientation of the photo area on the cover by selecting the appropriate Photo Orientation icon located in the lower left area just above the bottom bin of the Design Window.
 
When you are finished designing your cover, click the Continue button in the upper right corner.  You can edit your cover at any time after you start building your book.

Note: Adding text to the cover is optional. Any text added to the Custom Photo Cover Book will also be printed on the spine of the book’s binding.

Selecting Your Theme

Disney artists have created some pre-defined Themes to help you get started. Scroll through the selections presented in the window, select your favorite and then click the “Choose” button.

 
Selecting a Theme establishes a consistent look for the first 20 pages of your book.  Once you choose a Theme, the 'My Pages' tab below will display thumbnails of each page. Each thumbnail represents a left-side and right-side combination of pages known as a “spread.” Click on the thumbnails to quickly view each spread or click the 'Next Page' or “Previous Page” buttons to move through the book.

Note: All of the elements in our pre-designed layouts can be moved or removed to customize your book exactly how you want it!

Global Toolbar

At the top of the Design Window is a toolbar containing buttons for common functions used while building your Photo Book. Below is a brief description of each of the buttons and their functions:

• Text - Adds a text area to your page
• Spelling - Checks all of the text inside your book to find any commonly misspelled words
• Undo - Allows you to Undo any changes you’ve made to a spread
• Redo - Allows you to Redo anything you've undone
• Cut - Removes an element from your page and temporarily stores it to the clipboard
• Copy - Duplicates an element from your page and temporarily stores it to the clipboard
• Paste - Adds a cut or copied element from the clipboard to your page
• To Front - If two elements are overlapping, brings the selected element over the top of the other
• To Back - If two elements are overlapping, pushes the selected element underneath the other
• Zoom - Click and drag the slider to increase the viewing size of the pages, or press the Autofit button to see all areas of the pages as large as possible

Adding, Removing or Changing a Photo

After you have chosen a theme for your Photo Book, you can begin adding photos from any of your albums available on the 'Photos' tab in the bottom bin of the Design Window. You can use your Disney's PhotoPass Photos, photos you’ve uploaded from your computer, or select any of the beautiful stock photos available in Disney's Photo Gallery. You can also upload additional photos or claim more Disney's PhotoPass photos at this time.
 
To add a photo to your Photo Book design, simply click on the photo you wish to add and hold the mouse button down to drag your selected photo into the Photo Book editor. When your mouse is positioned over the box that reads "Drag Photo Here," release the mouse button and the photo will appear within your selected book design.
 
Note: For optimal Photo Book printing results, we only use the original Disney's PhotoPass photo without any borders you may have added. The photos with borders are still available for any photo prints and will also be included on your Disney’s PhotoCD if ordered. 
 
You can add new photos to your Photo Book pages by clicking and dragging them directly onto the page or into photo frames. If you have already dragged a photo into a photo frame and you wish to replace it, drop a new photo into the same slot and it will automatically replace the old one.
 
To remove a photo from a page, simply click the photo and press the Delete key on your keyboard.  You can also use the Cut button on the Toolbar.
 
To resize or flip a photo, click the photo while it's on the page to activate the Photo Tool (see below). The Photo Tool options are Rotate 90 degrees clockwise, counter-clockwise, mirror horizontally, mirror vertically, and crop/zoom.

The crop Crop/Zoom button within the Photo Tool will allow you to freely move the photo around within the photo frame as well as zoom in on a specific section of the photo. To zoom into the photo, with the photo selected on the page, click the Crop/Zoom button on the Photo Tool and drag the slider between the -/+ to zoom in/out. To move the photo around within the frame, click & drag the photo to position it in where you'd like within the frame. Outside of the Photo Frame you will see the remainder of the photo in black & white. This area indicates the portion of the photo that will not be visible within the frame and will not be printed in your book.  Only the photo area seen inside the Photo Frame will be printed. (see below).

Changing Page Layouts

On the 'Layouts' tab you can choose from a wide variety of different layouts.  The available drop-down boxes allow you to sort the available layouts based on the number of Photo Frames contained on the page and the Theme of the page.  You can quickly find the perfect layout for your Photo Book.  You can mix and match layouts from any of the available themes within your book.

Changing Layout Backgrounds

On the Backgrounds tab, click and drag the thumbnail of any Background to the page you'd like to change and the new Background will automatically replace the previous Background. Just like changing Layouts, you can choose from any of the Background designs contained in any of the Themes to create your personalized Photo Book page design.

Adding or Removing Page Elements

You can change individual elements from any page layout. The Photo Frames and Stickers & Text Boxes tabs hold hundreds of elements that can create a limitless amount of personalization options.

• Photo Frames: To add a new Photo Frame to your book, click its thumbnail and drag it to the page in the Design Window. To move it to a new location, simply click and hold the frame to drag it where you'd like it on the page. Once on the page, sizing and orientation controls will be surrounding the Photo Frame. To resize the Photo Frame, place your mouse cursor over the edge of the frame and click & drag the purple dots to increase/decrease the frame's size. To rotate the Photo Frame click and hold the circular arrow at the top of the sizing and orientation controls. While clicked, rotate your mouse in a circular motion to change the frame's rotation. When you're happy with the size and orientation of your Photo Frame, click anywhere outside of the frame to deselect it. You can re-position the Photo Frame at any time by clicking on it to show the sizing and orientation controls. To delete the Photo Frame from your page, simply press the 'Delete' key on your keyboard or use the Cut tool.
  
  
  Note: Frames can be resized and rotated with or without a photo in them.
  
• Stickers & Textboxes: The controls for resizing and changing the orientation of stickers & textboxes are the same as photo frames. There is also a limited version of the same Photo Tool that will allow for mirroring your sticker or textbox vertically or horizontally.
  
  Note: Textboxes are stickers that are designed to enhance the look of text on top of them, however you will still need to add editable text to them once they are added to a page.
  

Adding and Styling Text

Text can be added anywhere on your pages with or without a textbox. Clicking the 'Text' icon from the toolbar above will create a text area with sizing and orientation controls. The styling options for the text are similar to many popular word-processing software tools which include font style, size, color and alignment. When you enter text into the text area, the words will wrap to the correct dimension (i.e. once a line of text reaches the end of the text area's dimensions, any additional text will drop to the next line.)

Note: Before you finish your book, be sure to click the 'Spelling' button to check the spelling of all the text you added on all of your pages. The spell-checker will suggest corrections if it finds any misspelled words. Simply click the suggested word to replace the misspelled word. Unrecognized or inappropriate language will appear as a series of asterisk (***).  This text must be corrected in the book builder or it will print as shown on the screen.

Adding or Removing a Page

From the 'My Pages' tab, click the Add Page button to add a new page spread (2 pages). The new pages will be added immediately after the pages you currently have in the editor. To remove pages, highlight the thumbnail of the pages below and click the Remove Page button.  You cannot have fewer than 20 pages in your book and cannot add more than 40.  Please note there is an incremental charge for each spread that is added to your book. 

Disney's Photo Book comes standard with 20 pages (10 double-sided sheets). Your Disney's Photo Book can contain up to 60 pages. If you reach the 20th page in your book and you would like to add more pages, select the "Add a Page" button.

Note: The first time you add new pages, you will receive a message informing you of the price for additional pages. This message only appears the first time you select the "Add Page" button. You will see the final cost when you add your completed Photo Book to your cart and proceed to checkout.

Changing Your Cover

If you decide to change your cover after you've already begun editing your book's pages, simply click the 'Save' button in upper right corner, followed by the 'Change Cover' button. Select your new cover and make any additional changes to the photo or text. Once finished, click the 'Continue' button and you will return to the inside of your book with all of your saved changes.

Note: If you do not save your work prior to changing your cover, you will lose any unsaved changes.

Purchasing Your Photo Book

When you are finished building your Photo Book, click the 'Add to Cart' button in the upper right corner of the editor. You will receive a confirmation message that your Photo Book was added to the cart. Select 'View Your Cart' to proceed to checkout, or 'Continue' to stay within the editor.

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Processing Information

Your personalized Disney's Photo Book takes a minimum of 4 days to process prior to shipping. As soon as an order has been processed, it is shipped via United Parcel Service using the method requested during checkout.  You will receive e-mail notification when your order has been shipped.

To check your order status, log into your DisneyPhotoPass.com account and click "My Account" which appears at the top right of the screen. Then click "Check Order Status" to view any current or completed orders.

Shipping Information

For more information about shipping rates & delivery information for this product, please refer to Shipping Information.

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