I have been doing a huge project on Shutterfly for a friend. We are getting all of her pictures put into annual "yearbooks" (something I do for myself as well). People keep asking me if I am learning new tricks about Shutterfly as I do this work. One thing that I have definitely seen that Shutterfly has improved is the ability you have to customize almost anything to the way you want it.
One thing that always used to frustrate me was that if you had a picture that was particularly wide, it was hard to find Shutterfly templates that would work for that picture. You had two choices...cut off some of the people at the ends, or duplicate and crop the picture and put it on two pages side by side. Here is an example (the blue page below) of a picture where I had to cut some of the people out of the picture:
So I recently learned a way to address this problem, at least for most pictures. Let us assume that you want to use a template from Shutterfly like this one, which has a portrait orientation, but the picture you want to use is a landscape orientation:
When you add the picture, it will probably cut someone off no matter how much you try to re-center the picture.
So, with the improvements to Shutterfly, now you can choose the "Customize page" selection on the very bottom left. This will transform your page into editable sections, almost all of which can be stretched, re-sized, moved, or deleted altogether.
You will want to grab the frame of the picture and drag it out to the right until the picture includes all that you want to include. This may mean you have to relocate it or move the text box, but that is also easy to do in the "Customize page" mode.
You can quickly move the parts around until you like them, then click "Continue" and you will be in business with a page that is exactly the way you want it!
Shutterfly has really added a lot of nice features since they first revolutionized the photo album world. Be sure to try some of the new features on your next book!
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