scan old photo albums and make ibook??

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Level 2

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scan old photo albums and make ibook??

my motherinlaw has spent the last 55 years recording there famaly life in photo albums

they are a mix of cards , photos, post cards etc etc anything that told you where they have been and could by layed flat and glued in place in an a photo page

i want to scan each page and turn them into a electronic version that you can look at on an ipad or laptop/desktop

what progtam do i use? is ibook auther too much? is the a program so i cam flip pages

thanks fred

Scan them in and you can use iPhoto or Aperture to create a book. Below is a link from Apple that might provide the info you need:

https://www.apple.com/mac/print-products/

So from iPhoto I can go to books and save it as a PDF?

Can I go from iPhoto to iBooks Author and save it as an iBook?

That would be cool

Fred

I don't use iBooks Author, I would suggest posting on the iBooks and/or iPhoto forums for that information.

here i am

can i export from iphoto (books) to ibooks author

thanks fred

Posted on Apr 7, 2014 4:50 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

115,876 points

Apr 8, 2014 6:09 AM in response to gromit95

gromit95 wrote:

can i export from iphoto (books) to ibooks author

No.

You need to import your content into iBooks Author. You might try Pages instead and export to .epub format, that will give you better page flipping.

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Answer 2

vinnyvg

Level 4

1,880 points

Apr 8, 2014 9:09 PM in response to gromit95

Once scanned into usable images - and not being over confident with iBooks Author and or Pages, I would suggest an option which only requires an iPad and is very easy to use.

Search the app store for "Book Creator" by Redjumper. There is a free version to try, but the price of teh app is only a few dollars.

Once a book is complete, you can make it available to friends and faniky with computers and or iPads using an online "cloud" storage facility like Dropbox... which is free. You would upload teh completed book, DRopbox allows you to make a link which can be emailed to your friends and family who in turn can download teh book and Dropbox allows to to open direct into iBooks. This is also a page flipping book, although I think the recent update allowed a "slide show" viewing option - which removed the curl and and sldied teh images smoothly left or right as required.

Its not my app and I gain nothing.. I just use it myelf to send "photo albums" to my family back in the UK (I am in Australia)

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