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During the holidays, time is short and To-Do lists are long. That’s why we created BookGenie. This nifty feature helps you make a custom photo book in minutes! It takes the pain out of sorting and importing images so you can focus your time and energy on the fun part: Adding your personal touch.
Here’s how BookGenie works: Every photo you take is stamped with a date. BookGenie reads the time stamps on your pictures and groups them together. After you enter the dates, BookGenie magically imports the images from the date range selected into your book in minutes.
Then, it’s all about having fun and exploring your creative side. Add embellishments, backgrounds or captions. Add, delete or flop images. The heavy lifting has already been done. BookGenie allows you to spend your time being creative. Not organizing!
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When To Use BookGenie
BookGenie can import images from a certain time period or you can use our preset dates (Summer, Last 3 Months, Images from 2010). It all depends on what sort of book you’d like to make. Here are a couple of themes BookGenie was made for.
Vacations
Week-long, month long or a three-day weekend, BookGenie makes it easy to import and sort vacation images.
Wedding
Capture the weekend, or just the main event. Pop in the date or dates you wish to include and magically your book will appear.
Birthday Party/Anniversary
Import pictures from the entire event and then arrange them to your liking.
Summer
Capture all the images from Summer 2011. Or Summer 2009.
Winter
Remember Winter 2008? Yeah, me neither. Why not make a photo book about it!
Baby Book
Baby’s first month, second month or first year can be made easily.
How To Use BookGenie
BookGenie is easy! To see how easy it is, watch this brief video tutorial or follow the directions below.
Step 1: Open Picaboo X and select BookGenie from the left sidebar. You can select a certain date range of images by creating a “New Event” or choose from preset times: Last 3 Months, images from 2010, 2009, etc. If you select a preset time, you can skip Step 3.
Step 2: Choose Landscape or Square book style.
Step 3: If you selected “New Event,” enter the dates of the event. If you selected a preset date, skip this step.
Step 4: Select a theme for your book. Choose from a variety of events and styles: Birthday, Catalog, Seasons, Wedding, Travel, Baby, Holidays or No Theme.
Step 5: Now, BookGenie gets to work pulling in your images. Don’t worry, you can always delete or add any photos to your book.
Step 6: After BookGenie magically makes your book, it’s your turn to take the creative reigns. Add backgrounds, captions or embellishments to make it perfect. Customize your book so that it could only come from you.
Want more holiday gift ideas? Here are four gifts you can make in 20 minutes. And here’s our Top 12 Holiday Gift Ideas.
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I would use book genie to make a baby boy book for my son that just turned one!
I would create a book about a family vacation.
I would make a 2011 summer vacation book with BookGenie!
My in-laws live six hours away. We only see them a few times a year, and it’s usually only for a few days. This past July I took over 2,000 pictures during our three days together. Yesterday I mailed the book that I created ~ it’s their Christmas present. It’s the PERFECT gift for retired people who do NOT want more *stuff* & pretty much have everything they want/need.
I’d make a book (finally) with pics from our summer 2011 trip to Key West! A project I’ve been meaning to do but have put off.
I would make a travel book from my cruise I took 2 years ago, pictures are just sitting on my computer and I would love to have them in a book!
i would make a book from our trip to the florida aquarium…. what a fun day!!!
I would make a book about my brothers wedding, the pictures I took and then give it to them for Christmas!
A baby book for each of my kids. My oldest is 10 and I have never gotten around to it
My family’s vacation to Catalina Island!
Definitely of our anniversary trip to Maine!
I would do my engagement trip to Cancun so many wonderful sites
I would use it for my family’s trip to Maine to visit family up there
I would use it for my family’s trip to Maine to visit family that lives there
I am using Book Genie to help me make a book of everything we did in 2011. Hopefully I’ll have it done in January!
My family fourth of July book!
I’d create a book — 2011 in Review — a month by month guide to what great things we experienced and achieved this year!
For each foster child when they leave.
That’s a great idea!
I’d catch up on all the vacation photo books I’d like to make – I have at least four or five to catch up on!
Book Genie is the most amazing feature I have come across…Makes everything so simple..!! I create ALL my books with this easy to use application
I would make my 2011 yearbook with book genie…it would put the whole year in order for me, i just add the details. Easy!!
Books about My kids! I’ve started with scrapbooking, but have given it up for Picaboo instead. Waaaay easier, great product and less mess!
I would make a book with all my wedding pictures for my mom!
Book Genie would be great to help me put together a book of the marching band I photograph every fall as a “season recap”. Fun!
I would make a birthday party book!!!! or maybe a winter book! i love Picaboo books!
I would use BookGenie to create a book showcasing the first couple months of my baby girl’s life. She is now 8 weeks old, and those first few days with us are moments we’ll always want to remember.
I would make a first year book for my son
this is his 1st christmas!!!!
Great idea Brandi…!! I would love for you to win..!!
I would make a baby book, all about my little girl!
I’m working on a book for my 4 yr old great nephew. His Mommy, my niece, died recently unexpectedly. The book is about his Mommy so he will remember her always.
What a sweet gift! I’m sure he will treasure that for the rest of his life!
I would make a 2011 book to show what all we did in 2011!
i would definitely make a book about my trip to Europe!
I would use it for my son’s upcoming 3 rd Birthday! A Birthday Book!
My husband has been to Disney at least 8 times (some before we met) and I’d love to make a book with pictures from all of those trips for him, ending with the most recent trip last year for our daughter’s first birthday!
To be perfectly honest, I think I am too much of a control freak to use the book genie LOL. It’s a great concept but I think I would have too much trouble relinquishing control of what pics go where haha!
Hehe I agree! I’d like to think I’d actually use it, but in all honesty, I probably couldn’t give up control.
I would make a photo book for my trip to the Smoky Mountains. I have over 1,000 photos from that trip and Book Genie would make it so much easier!
I would use BookGenie make a book about our fall vacation to the Black Hills
I would make a “Fun in Fall” book of my kids from the last few months of pictures I’ve taken! My parent have like 4 pictures of me when I was little…. My kids will have 4 million! Hahahaha….
I’d make a book documenting some of our house renovation.
I think I would create a first Christmas book for my 8 month old grandson!
I Would make a book about this year’s Backstreet Boys cruise! We took over 2000 pictures in 4 days so that would save me a lot of time!
I would use it to create a book about my upcoming trip to Europe!
I used BookGenie to make a book about our trip to Brazil. I’d use it again for our trip to Hawaii (hopefully next spring).
I would make a book for my husband. He went to Africa 4 years ago to bow hunt. I have been wanting to make one for him since he got back.
I have tried other auto fill books and i rally do not care for them. This may be one I would be willing to try. but truly I like full control over wha I put in my photo books and that is why I use picaboo!!! I would try it with our summer trips. we have a few adventures and it would be fun to have them bound to remember.
I would use book genie to create an exciting book for my wedding !
I would use BookGenie to make a photo book about my family’s first trip to Hawaii! We’re going there for my brother’s wedding!