They did it! You did it! And you couldn’t be more proud. There are few moments in life that make us more proud than watching our kids, family or friends graduate. Show your pride in a photo book gift featuring graduation day photos or make a memory book with all those old school pictures from kindergarten to the senior prom. You will love making it and your grad will cherish it for years to come. Choose from hundreds of stylish backgrounds, including our new graduation photo book theme or upload your own custom pages. Your books will arrive in 7-10 business days.

Order your book at regular price by Friday, June 5, 2009 using the coupon code INKUGRAD09 and get a second copy of the same book for 50% off.

*Offer cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Coupon code may be used one time per customer.

Spring might not have officially sprung yet, but it’s not far off. Soon it will be time for gardening, soccer, baseball, Mother’s Day and graduation parties – all fantastic photo book-worthy occasions. At Inkubook, we’ve been busy getting ready for the spring photo book season by making several improvements, including enhancements like deleting photos from your photo gallery, working with text in your photo book, new photo book backgrounds & layouts and more.

To help launch you into spring, Inkubook has a sweet BOGO offer to share with you: Buy one photo book of any size or page count and get a second copy of the same photo book free!  With savings of up to $69.95, now is a great time to make a drop-dead gorgeous photo book. Make one as a gift and keep one for yourself!

Don’t miss out. This offer ends St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2009. Just enter coupon code SPRINGBOGO during checkout to save some serious green! Offer cannot be combined with any other offer or promotion. Coupon code may be used one time per customer for one photo book.

Here at Inkubook, “We want to improve” is our middle name. Sure, it’s virtually impossible to fit on a standardized form, but getting better is important to us so we live with the inconvenience.

Getting better at what we do means taking the feedback we receive seriously. One thing that has come up often, both in responses to surveys we’ve done and in conversations you’ve had with our support staff, is that the full-page bleed layouts necessary to upload your very own scrapbook designs aren’t easily found. We plan to rectify that as best we can as soon as we can by making sure that the full-page bleed layout is available by default in the Layouts gallery. In the meantime, though, we’d like to give you some tips that might help you find it when you’re looking for it.

Currently the full-page layout for the 8.5″ x 8.5″ book is not in the Layouts gallery when you start a book. But we do have one. You just need to add it to your gallery so that you can place it on your pages. Here’s what you need to do:

1. Make sure you’re on a page of the book (not one of the covers) and click the Layouts tab.
2. Click More at the left end of the gallery. This will show you all the available layout options for this size book, and it looks like this: 
3. The full-page bleed layout that you’re looking for (one without any other photo or text continers) is in the second row, second from the left. See the picture below for the exact location. We’ve included a shockingly pink arrow and callout so you can’t miss it.
4. Click the layout then click Apply. It’ll be added to your Layouts gallery and will be placed on the active page.

Here’s where to find the full-page bleed layout in the 8.5″ x 8.5″ book.

In the 11″ x 8.5″ landscape book and the 8.5″ x 11″ portrait book, the full-page bleed layouts are a little easier to locate because they’re already in your Layouts gallery. There are two pictures below to show you exactly what you’re looking for.

This is where the full-page bleed layout is in gallery of the landscape book…

…and this is the location in the gallery of your portrait book.

You are now properly armed with the information you need to put your digital LOs (or scans of your traditional scrapbook pages) into a drop-dead gorgeous book.

Just so you know, one of the other bits of feedback we’ve received is the suggestion that we should create a feature that allows you to apply the same layout to every page. We think that’s a great idea. We don’t want anyone to get repetitive stress injury from having to drag the same layout onto every page of a book. This is a feature that we definitely plan to implement. In the meantime, we hope you’ll bear with us as we work through the list of all the things we want to do.

We’re standing by to hear more of your feedback, so please use our Feedback form to send us a note. Otherwise, we encourage you to get started on your book. If you make one that you’re really proud of and you’d like to share it with us, use the Invite Friends feature to send an invitation to ckughen at Inkubook dot com. If you give us permission to use it, your book might end up in one of our sample galleries!

So, you’ve found your way here, which probably means you’re at least a little curious about creating photo books. Boy, are you ever going to be glad that you stopped by today because we have some good news for you!

For a limited time, new members can get a free book from Inkubook just for signing up. Don’t believe it? Does it sound too good to be true? Well, it’s not. Full details of what you need to do are below. We do ask one thing, and that is that we want you to share this good news with a friend. In order to get a free book, you need to use the Invite Friends feature to ask someone to check out your book. The upside is that your friend can get a free book, too, so we’re making sure to spread the love around.

Here’s how it works:

1. Join Inkubook. Start your book.

2. Using the Invite Friends feature, invite someone to join Inkubook to submit a few photos to include in your book, or just to see what you’re working on. We’ll send your friend a promotion code to use for a free book.

3. Finish your book then order it using this promotion code: BLOGFREE.

That’s all there is to it. Not so hard really, is it? It’s a great way to use all those digital photos that are just hanging out on your computer or memory card. You can get some great ideas for books here.