📖 Design a birthday photo album
An album for a birthday, a baby’s first year or a gift for grandparents: rainbow, jungle, space, baby pastel, party confetti or building blocks. Photos arrange themselves by the date they were taken.
How it works
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Add your photos
Pick them all at once — they stay on your device.
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Choose an occasion and a style
The album lays itself out by date taken.
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Fine-tune and download
Move, crop and rotate; download a PDF or a JPG per spread for the printer.
Make a photo book yourself
Designing your own album saves the design fee and gives you full control: which photos go in, how many per page and where. It all works in the browser, with no sign-up and no software. Add every photo at once and the album lays itself out by the date taken, with more photos on some pages and fewer on others so it doesn’t feel repetitive.
Move, resize and rotate any photo, or crop inside its frame. A magnet snaps photos to each other and to the middle of the page, and one slider resizes every photo on the page together. Add black and white, sepia, warm or cool tones, rounded corners, a border and a shadow — per photo or for the whole style.
The sizes match common US photo books: 12×12, 10×10 and 8×8 squares, 11×8.5 and 14×11 landscape and 8.5×11 portrait. Every spread comes out at 300 DPI with optional bleed, as one PDF or as numbered JPGs in a ZIP. A dashed line marks the safe area and the fold.
👪 For parents and teachers. These tools are made to be set up and shared by adults. No accounts, no email, no ads in the tool. We keep only what people type in, and shared pages are deleted automatically after the event (or after six months without changes). Photos in the photo tools never leave your device.
Questions and answers
Is it really free?
Yes. No sign-up, no watermark and no limit on spreads. The print file comes out at full resolution.
Where do my photos go?
Nowhere. Photos load only in your browser and are saved on your device so you can continue tomorrow. We never see them or store them.
What file do I send to the photo-book printer?
Most printers accept one JPG per spread at 300 DPI, numbered 001, 002 and so on — that’s exactly what the ZIP button gives you. There’s also a single PDF with every spread. Check your printer’s book size and whether it needs bleed (usually about ⅛ in / 3 mm).
What does the red dot on a photo mean?
The photo is too small for the size it’s printed at and may look blurry. Make it smaller in the album or use the original file from the photographer.
How are the photos ordered?
Automatically by the date each photo was taken. Scanned old photos carry the scan date, so you can switch to “Upload order” and add them in the order you want.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. Drag with a finger and pinch to zoom and rotate. For a big album a computer is more comfortable, and on iPhone the file comes out at a slightly lower resolution because of a browser limit.