Best Facebook Photo Books

How to make a Facebook photo book

Creating a photo book from Facebook photos is extremely easy since there are two very convenient methods for fetching the relevant pictures. Granted, Facebook compresses every picture uploaded to its servers and that might result in slight distortions when compared with the original pictures. However, since many photo book editors allow users to adjust photos later on – either by cropping or by adding advanced adjustments – this compression issue likely won’t be bothersome at all.

The simplest and most direct method of using Facebook pictures as the foundation for your future photo book is by authorizing your Facebook account within the editor. Once the permission to fetch your Facebook albums has been granted, the photo book builder gathers all albums found on your profile and allows you to either use an entire album or just select certain pictures. Keep in mind, though, that typically no other data is imported from your profile, unless you choose a social media centric builder like My Social Book or Chatbooks. However, the photo feed is constantly refreshed once a profile has been connected with the editor, so the process can be repeated any number of times, even in new projects, without having to go through the importation all over again. There’s no need to worry about your privacy here, though, as photo book builders only gain access to the most essential data needed for your photo albums, meaning that companies won’t be able to bombard you with spam or ads.

The other method of fetching Facebook pictures is by simply downloading them from your profile one by one or as an entire album in ZIP format. Unfortunately this method will therefore lose any comments, captions, dates and locations in the process, so they still cannot be imported. And as you might tell, this adds an unnecessary second step to the photo upload process during editing. However, not all builders offer social media importing, so this might be your only chance to create a Facebook photo book in this case.

Including comments and captions

With the exception of photo book companies specializing in social media albums, comments and photo captions are never imported into your would-be photo book. In other words the only option is to type them in one by one should you want to include them into the book, which could be a tedious process but at the same time opens up endless possibilities.

Although it is possible to use the traditional approach, using a variety of layouts will add some spice to the book. Maybe there’s a long but particularly funny or interesting comment you definitely want added into the book, and in these cases having some extra space certainly comes in handy. There is also the option to play around with different fonts, their color and size – things that not even Facebook can pull off. And of course it can be appealing to emphasize certain captions or comments in other ways, too, even going as far as replacing certain words with word-type embellishments. Either way, remember that whether you leave the text as it is or give it a creative twist, captions and comments are always one of the best opportunities to make the photo book unique.

Facebook group photo books

Creating a photo book using Facebook group photos is a bit more complicated than using your own albums. While individual albums can be imported into the photo book or the editor’s photo storage without major hassle, the group album download option is only available for those who either have admin roles in the group or possess the necessary permission from the group’s admin. If that’s you, then the photo import features are basically the same as if you were uploading your own Facebook albums. If you lack the permission then the only option is to get those photos by going into the album and downloading them one by one or by using a browser add-on.

However, don’t fret too much about these limited import options, since this just means it can be turned into a group project for everyone involved. By assigning an admin of the Facebook group to upload the pictures who can then start the creation process of the photo book, the group can then get involved too so long as you choose to use services such as Mixbook, where collaboration is a key feature of the photo book builder. This way everyone can add photos to the albums to the editor’s storage while suggestions and instructions can be shared in person or via Messenger chat.