How to create a First Communion photo album on Mac

We are in full swing of an event that many families in Spain are celebrating or going to celebrate. It is the First Communion of the little ones in the house. It is a day that for them becomes special despite that in these times has lost the symbolism it represented.

One of the things that is not lacking in every Communion is the photo book, a job that is normally entrusted to a specialized photographer. However, it may be the case that you do not want to hire a professional and want to use your Apple devices, the iPhone and the Mac to arm yourself with courage and create, for example, your own photo book.

There are several website where you can do this type of work, but in this case we are going to tell you how to do it on your own Mac in a few steps and with the new OS X Yosemite Photos app. The process is very simple and in a short time, depending on the number of pages you put and how you configure it, you will have a whole album of photographs that you have taken with your own iPhone.

It is clear that the final quality of the album will not be like what a professional can offer you, but doing it yourself also has its value and the results are really good. The steps you have to follow to create your own photo album are the following:

• The first thing, of course, is to do the photo session, either with a reflex camera or with your own iPhone, which as you know, if it is an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus You can be sure that you will have very good photographs.

• Now you must import all photos into Photos on Mac. Once imported, we advise you to create an album so that you can locate them in it so that you can have your photo library organized.

• Now is when we go to the top of the window and click on the Projects tab. Then click on the "+" and select "Book".

• Next you must choose between the three possibilities that Apple gives you, Square, Classic or Rustic Cover. In each option it gives you two sizes and two prices respectively. further you are informed of the number of base pages it will have and how much it will cost you each page you add more.

• Once we have selected the type of book that we are going to create, we are asked to select the theme of the book. Apple gives us a choice between 14 different themes. Depending on the theme are the reasons that you can find on its pages. We advise you to calmly look at the existing themes so that the final result is the best.

• Now comes the first step that your imagination needs to be placing the photographs in each hole of each page that has been generated in the book. To do this in the lower right part of the screen you must click on «Add photos», select them from the Photos library and accept. If you realize, the application gives you the option to randomly insert the photographs «Fill automatic". If you are not interested you can do it manually.

• To be able to modify the appearance of the pages you must double-click on one of them and it will expand, showing you under each photograph the button «Options».

• At the top of the window on the right side you have three icons that they allow you to change the characteristics of the book "a posteriori".

• To finalize the purchase, click on Buy book. In a few days you will have your book at home packed and presented with the quality that defines Apple.

As you can see, it is a very simple way to create your own photo book for the First Communion of boys or girls from the family or acquaintances. While you enjoy seeing how your creation is being, later you can enjoy each time you see it remembering that wonderful day. Go ahead and get down to work, you are still on time.