Photo Book Styles

Explore Custom Photo Book Designs & Styles

A custom photo book can be created to highlight pictures from any occasion. Capture life's most precious moments, whether it's your wedding day, a birthday party, or your little one's first day of school. From formal portraits to candid snapshots, all your best memories deserve to be protected and displayed. Commemorate these events and occasions and celebrate each moment with personalized photo books. Showcase a series of your most cherished images and include your own text and unique designs to memorialize your most beloved memories. No matter what the occasion is, a photo book will take you on a vivid stroll down memory lane. Shutterfly offers a collection of photo book designs, themes, and styles so you can create your own album to remember the good times throughout the years.

Photo Book Themes & Templates for Every Occasion

There's no better way to document life's most special milestones than with a photo book. Celebrate the big moments in your life like weddings, the arrival of a new baby, or special vacations in a keepsake you can flip through for years to come. Your wedding will always be a special day you look back on fondly. Document each moment from getting ready with the bridesmaids and walking down the aisle to the vows and cutting the cake with an elegant wedding photo book. Adorn your book with classic colors, romantic captions, and seamless layflat pages to make the personalized album of your dreams.

A baby photo book is a perfect way to capture your new addition's early years — featuring everything from their first smiles to their first steps. Or maybe you want to document your most memorable trip abroad with a travel photo book customized to showcase the best parts of your trip. No matter what you want to make an album for, Shutterfly offers a photo book design for every occasion and theme.

High-Quality Photo Book Covers & Design Styles

Photo books are for more than life's most significant events. Make your own photo book with images of everyday moments — your favorite photos from the season, candid family photos, or a summary of your entire year. Shutterfly offers photo book styles that are perfect for showcasing pictures from your daily life. Whether you capture those pictures in a professional hardcover photo book or an easy-to-flip softcover photo album, you can personalize your book to your heart's content. You can even make a conversation piece album with a coffee table photo book perfect for displaying in your home for guests to flip through. Use our family, everyday, seasonal, year-in-review, or travel photo book styles to make a keepsake you treasure forever.

How to Create Your Own Photo Book Online

Create lasting memories with a photo book filled with your most cherished pictures. With Shutterfly, you can make high-quality albums when choosing from many design templates and softcover and hardcover photo book styles. For a seamless display, opt for a premium layflat photo book that allows your photos to flow uninterrupted across the pages. Add special details like metallic accents, leather covers, memorabilia pockets, and more. With room to add custom text, pre-designed Idea pages, and stylish embellishments, there are endless ways to make the best photo book.

Pick the Right Photo Book Size

Shutterfly offers a variety of photo book sizes from compact 8x8 photo books to larger albums that perfectly showcase your photos. When choosing a size, consider the ratio of landscape to portrait photos to help determine the best album orientation. Matching the album to your photo orientation will make it easier to layout and size your images. Here’s a breakdown of the available sizes:

• 8x8 (Square): A compact size that's great for travel and showing off your favorite memories. Ideal for a mix of landscape and portrait photos.
• 8x11 (Portrait): Perfect for professional photo books like graduation albums, yearbooks, or displaying portrait photography.
• 10x10 (Square): Slightly larger, offering more space for an equal mix of landscape and portrait photos.
• 11x8 (Landscape): Great for highlighting landscape photography or photos that are wider than they are tall.
• 11x14 (Portrait): Best for showcasing portrait photos in a larger, more dramatic format.
• 12x12 (Square): A spacious option for combining portrait and landscape photos with various layouts.

Each size allows flexibility with how many photos you feature on each page, making it easy to create a personalized keepsake.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a photo book?
A photo book is a custom-designed book filled with your favorite photos, allowing you to preserve and share memories in a beautifully printed format.

What is a layflat photo book?
A layflat photo book uses special binding that allows the pages to lay completely flat, making it perfect for panoramic photos and seamless two-page spreads.

How do you display photo books?
Photo books can be displayed on shelves, coffee tables, or bookstands. They can also be part of your home decor as stylish conversation pieces.

How do you make an Instagram photo book?
To create an Instagram photo book, upload your favorite images into Shutterfly's photo book templates for a stylish, social-media-inspired album.

Can a photo book be a coffee table book?
Yes, a photo book can easily serve as a coffee table book, especially when designed with high-quality materials and meaningful content that sparks conversation.

What photo book themes does Shutterfly offer?
Shutterfly offers a wide range of themes, including travel, family, wedding, baby, and year-in-review photo books, allowing you to customize based on your occasion or style.

Can I order multiple copies of a photo book?
Yes, you can order multiple copies of your photo book to share with family and friends. If you’re creating books for a group, event, or special occasion, explore our bulk photo books options for an easy way to order more at once.