Pick a topic for the book. You may have come back from an unforgettable vacation where you took photos you want to treasure or you may have oodles of photos of your child's Little League season to preserve. As you work through the photos, it helps to ask your friends or a mentor along the way to help you edit the book, whether it's a family photo album or your life's story.
Use word processing programs that have spelling and grammar checkers, but they are not always sensitive to contextual use of words and rules of grammar. If your spelling and grammar are less than stellar, ask someone who can help you improve the written content.
Find websites that have software templates for members to use to create scrapbooks or picture books using graphic files and create text to narrate the book. Review the sites and choose one based on your requirements, whether they are pricing, preference, convenience, or quality.
Some of the templates that these sites offer often have themes specific to an event, like a wedding, baby shower, birthday party, or holidays. They also have generic templates that work for any occasion. The online publishing houses that specialize in books with more text than photos also use templates to produce professional looking books.
Create a folder for the project. It helps to use descriptive file names for the photos and the text that will accompany the graphics. For example, if you are including a photo of an apple tree in bloom, name the text file "apple_in_bloom" to save a lot of time when adding the text blocks.
Have someone check your book before you finalize it. They may be able to give you suggestions to make your book even better.
Order as many copies as you think you will need. Websites often give price breaks for buying more copies, since their cost of production goes down.