Picaboo Blog

The New Special Collections Site!

We recently launched a new addition to our Free Backgrounds site: the Picaboo Special Collections site! The purpose of this site is to organize our best backgrounds according to specific themes, such as holidays, events, sports, etc.  We also wanted to provide sets of backgrounds that compliment each other in order to make it easier for our users to create great looking books in less time. Instead of searching for backgrounds that match each other, Picaboo users can now browse through the Collections site and find numerous backgrounds that go with a particular theme and that look great together. We will be featuring a new collection each week in our Friday email newsletter, and we will add new collections to our site regularly. Some of the collections feature work done by a variety of designers, while other collections have been created exclusively by a single designer. The categories we currently feature are: Holidays, Events, Seasons, Colors, Travel, Wedding, Baby, Kids, Sports, and Other (which includes Heritage, Pets, Fine Art, and Nature).

If you are looking for backgrounds that goes with a specific holiday, season, or event, the Collections site is a great place to start. Also, if you are looking for a background of a particular color that will compliment the photos on a certain page, the Colors section is very helpful. For each color, the backgrounds are arranged according to shade so it is easy to try out several different backgrounds of slightly different shades until you find the one that is perfect for the page in your Picaboo book.

We are all very excited about this new site, and we feel it will make the Picaboo creation process even easier and more fun.  Enjoy!

New Themes Are Available!

Have you seen the new themes that are available?  You can access them by either clicking the “Free Goodies” button in your Picaboo software, or by going to this link: http://www.picaboo.com/freegoodies/themes/.

We have both photo book and digital scrapbook style themes created by popular designers like The Shabby Princess and Michelle Coleman.

To use one of the themes on our site:

1. Click on the “Download” link under the theme you wish to use.  In the window that appears, click “Run”, “Yes” or “Open” (depending on your browser’s settings) to download the new theme.

2. Click on the “Create Book” button in Picaboo and then click on the “Import Theme” button in the first dialog that appears. 

3. Select the theme that you just downloaded, and click “Open” to import it into Picaboo.  It will then appear in the list of themes in the Picaboo software.

You are welcome to download and install as many of the new themes as you like.  My personal favorite is the new Travel Desk theme—I love the classic “world traveler” element that it adds to my photo books.

We will be adding new themes regularly, so be sure to check back with the site in the coming months to see our new additions.  And have fun!

New Backgrounds Site

Have you created backgrounds of your own?  Have you taken any digital photos that you think work well as page backgrounds?  If so, we invite you to share them with everyone by uploading them to our Free Backgrounds site!  Click here to check it out: http://backgrounds.picaboo.com.

As I mentioned in our first blog entry, we have completely revamped our Free Backgrounds site.  It is now easier to find the backgrounds you need to complement your photos.  You can either search for backgrounds by keyword, or browse backgrounds by their tags. 

We also have new Special Collections (http://www.picaboo.com/freegoodies/collections/) where you can find groups of backgrounds that will work well together in a photo book.

But my favorite feature of the new Backgrounds site is that now everyone can upload and share their backgrounds with the entire  Picaboo community!  After you create your own username and password for the Backgrounds site, you are free to upload your own backgrounds and rate or comment on the backgrounds of others.

It’s pretty exciting when others view, use and rate your Backgrounds. Have fun!

Welcome to the new Picaboo Blog!

Hi everybody!  I am pleased to welcome you to our new blog.  We created this blog to provide our customers with the most up-to-date information about Picaboo’s products, software enhancements, new services, tips & tricks, special offers and more. 

This blog will be updated frequently by members of all teams within Picaboo including Marketing, Software Engineering, Product Management and the Support Group.  We are very excited to have the opportunity to communicate with our customers on a broad level through this blog.

We have a lot to write about this year with everything that is going on so STAY TUNED!

The New Picaboo 1.5 is Now Available!

We are excited to introduce you to the great new features available in the latest version of our software: Picaboo 1.5 (released April 17)!

With the new software, we had the opportunity to make some amazing additions that were requested by our customers. To name a few:

- over 100 new page layouts (now a total of 240 are available);

- several new fonts;

- new photo book and digital scrapbook themes;

- a completely redesigned Free Backgrounds site (http://backgrounds.picaboo.com/Backgrounds/) where you can search for backgrounds by keyword or event, rate or comment on backgrounds, and even become a designer to upload your own;

- picture border and drop shadow options;

- And more!

Coinciding with our new software release, we also upgraded our product line with Medium hardcover books and higher quality fine linen and leather covers. 

And, for those of you wishing to order books outside the US and Canada, you can now select almost any country for billing and shipping on our order page. 

You can download (or upgrade to) Picaboo 1.5 just by going to www.picaboo.com and clicking on the "Download Now" button.  You do not need to uninstall your previous version of Picaboo to upgrade to the new version.

We have all been having fun with the new software, and we hope you enjoy it too!  If you ever have any questions for us, please feel free to contact us at support@picaboo.com.

Until next time…