Clear the Desk Live

Once upon a very long time ago, I led a year-long video project called 4×6 Photo Love for an online store, with an update each month, all featuring 4×6 prints. We scrapped one 4×6 photo in January, two in February, all the way up to twelve in December. That project came from an era when I ordered all my photos printed as 4×6 prints and although the supplies were those on the market at the time, the sketches and ideas still work and some are ideas I’ve come back to dozens of times since.

Except now I split my photo sizes, with about half of my prints at the 3×4 size. It’s high time I create a library of page designs for 3×4 photos – a new reference guide with ideas that can be used time and time again over time, with different supplies, different colour schemes, and different stories.

3×4 Photo Love is a much quicker format than once a month, so you won’t have long to wait! This online class has six livestreamed lessons, each making two pages, for a total of twelve pages. The first lesson starts with one 3×4 photo, with a design for a portrait (vertical) photo and a design for a landscape (horizontal) photo. We will carry on through the lessons, adding an additional photo, until our last lesson features six portraits on one page and six landscapes on another. These page designs also shift easily to add more photos if you prefer, so you’ll have plenty of options. You’ll also see exactly how page designs can be adjusted from portraits to landscapes. I won’t be featuring pages that mix the portraits and landscapes but we will stop to talk about that with the designs where it can work easily, and we’ll look at how the pages could work side by side for stories that give you plenty of photos in both directions.