Designing with delight: How Mixbook Studio™ is built for summer storytelling

Summer is for making memories. Delighting in long, heady, sun-drenched days, switching back and forth between play and relaxation. Embracing the great outdoors and spending time with family and friends. And capturing all the pleasures of the season on your full-to-bursting photo reel.

Summer is definitely not for excessive screentime, or lengthy, perfectionist projects. Save those for another season! However, don’t rule out photo book projects that preserve the amazing memories of summer while they’re still fresh in your mind.

Mixbook Studio™ is intentionally engineered to support fast, joyful storytelling—perfect for easy, breezy summer projects. A suite of smart features and mobile-friendly tools removes any friction from the creative process. This summer, invest just a little time in the studio and transform the highlights of the season into a beautiful photo book.

Here are some top tips for delightful, quick, and easy summer storytelling with Mixbook.

Use these Mixbook Studio™ tools for easy, speedy projects

Mixbook Studio™’s AI-powered tools help you create a gorgeous, ready-to-print photo book in just moments. There’s no compromise on quality or personalization options—your design is always 100% customizable in every way. Try out these tools to help you create a design you adore with minimal time and effort:

Auto-Create: This is the ultimate tool for creating a custom photo book in just a few clicks. Choose a photo book theme and upload your photos to Mixbook Studio™, then look for the Auto-Create magic wand icon in the Photos panel. Click the icon, and Auto-Create will automatically fill the book with your photos based on analysis of their content, format, and other factors. Use it to see the best layouts and design details for your project, spark your creativity, get started (and finished) faster.

Auto-Layout: Use the Auto-Layout tool (located at the top of the Layouts panel) to generate the best layouts for a single page or two-page spread. This is another AI-powered, smart design tool that analyzes your photos and the theme’s design assets for the best possible results in just a few clicks.

Smart Captions: It can take considerable time to come up with the perfect captions for a photo book. Save your precious summertime hours for something else! Mixbook’s Smart Captions use AI to generate sets of short and long caption ideas customized to your unique photo collection plus the theme of the photo book. You can drag the captions generated by the tool directly into your photo book, or use the suggestions that inspire your own original text. Find Smart Captions in the Text panel, and click for the “regenerate” button for new suggestions at any time.

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These Mixbook Studio™ features make photo books more fun

Many Mixbook Studio™ tools are designed to make the process quicker and easier. Others are great for adding an element of fun and perfectly capturing those summer vibes. Consider these features to enhance your summer photo book project:

Themes: There are so many reasons to use a professionally designed theme for your photo book. A theme makes it quicker and easier to create a beautiful book, and most themes offer content prompts to inspire visually appealing pages and spreads.

For cohesive storytelling, the aesthetic elements of a theme should match the photo collection. Whether your photos capture an amazing vacation, your kids’ summer activities, relaxing at home, or gatherings with friends and family, it’s helpful to start with a theme designed especially for summer storytelling. Here are just a few Mixbook themes that are perfect for the season’s stories:

• Modern Travels
• Tropic Greenery
• Beach Bliss
• Vintage Summer Vacation Coffee Table Book
• Hand Drawn Patterns

Stickers: Be sure to browse the Stickers panel in Mixbook Studio™ while you’re creating a photo book of summer memories. You’ll find special stickers designed for your theme, plus countless more options for accessorizing photo layouts. Sticker collections include varied styles of text, images, and shapes, so you’re sure to find some that suit your project.

For summer projects, consider seasonal motifs like ice-cream cones, sunglasses, flip-flops, suns, and rainbows. If you’re making a travel book, look for stickers that match the location or style of travel, such as illustrated landmarks, forms of transport, and landforms like mountains or beach scenes.

Mixbook Movies: The awesome new Mixbook Movies feature brings your summer photo book to life—with absolutely zero extra effort or cost (for a limited time). Complete any photo book and add a Mixbook Movie at checkout. You’ll receive an email with a link to your movie, which you can customize with a soundtrack to amplify those fun summer vibes.

Enjoy on-the-go creativity with the Mixbook Mobile App

If your summer plans involve being out and about as much as possible, then be sure to download the Mixbook mobile app for iOs. You’ll be able to create new projects or tinker with existing ones wherever you are, be it the beach, poolside, airplane, or your own backyard.

Memories: The Memories feature, exclusive to the Mixbook app, is another time-saving tool that will help you complete a summer memory photo book in no time. The tool analyzes your smartphone’s camera roll (no matter how organized it is), selects your best photos, and creates albums of photos that meaningfully match the same subject matter.

If you attended a party or wedding this summer, it will create an album of just the highlights from those events. You might generate an album of your kids’ summer camp or family vacation, or a series of al fresco brunch dates with your BFFs. Consider these albums as expertly curated content, ready to go for your next photo book project.

More about Mixbook Memories: How to Create Summer Photo Books in Under 10 Minutes

How will you tell the stories of an amazing summer?

With Mixbook, you can preserve the best stories of your summer without taking time away from making even more memories. Our suite of user-centric tools makes it easy to select the most meaningful photos, create an amazing design, and streamline your creative process. What stories will you tell this summer?

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