Inspiration boards

Which is the best way to create inspiration boards; I love them and tried to create them with no luck.

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Permalink Reply by Christie O. on February 25, 2010 at 6:52am

The easiest way I have found is at http://circle.stylemepretty.com/ They have a lovely gallery you can pull from, clear guidelines and a easy drag and drop, grid system. Best of all, you can embed the code for any board into you blog.

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Permalink Reply by Christine Dyer on February 25, 2010 at 10:18am

Bridal Canvas is also another great site for creating inspiration boards. http://www.bridalcanvas.com/

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Permalink Reply by Konstantina Saraidari on February 25, 2010 at 11:18am

Thanks a lot I will try both!!!

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Permalink Reply by Shiny Orb on February 25, 2010 at 7:55pm

I use photoshop to do my inspiration boards for the blog. (http://blog.shinyorb.com) Although it is more complicated, I find that there are a couple of big benefits:

1. I can make each picture clickable and link to a corresponding webpage. This is especially useful if you do not own the image yourself and it makes it easy for the reader to figure out what you're featuring immediately without looking through a list in your caption.
2. I can tag the photos optimally for SEO purposes.
3. I have finer control over placement and image resizing in order to design my own template.

If you want some step by steps, you can email me or google for how to make image maps in photoshop.

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Permalink Reply by Konstantina Saraidari on February 26, 2010 at 8:44am

You are so kind Shiny, I appreciated it, although I have no experience in Photoshop. I did a few things in the past but totally different from inspiration boards.
I tried already Bridal Canvas, which Christine proposed, and I found it easy and very helpful.

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Permalink Reply by Events by Markz & Co. on February 27, 2010 at 3:21pm

I use big hug labs and it is pretty easy to use. You can pull photos from bridal sites, download them to your computer. I hope this works.

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Permalink Reply by Dessy Group on March 9, 2010 at 12:55pm

Hi Konstantina,

I may be biased, eh um, as I am the blogger for The Dessy Group (www.dessy.com), but I think their inspiration board platform (http://www.dessy.com/PANTONE) is the best! You can choose from all of the Pantone Colors, use professional photography gallery, and also view other brides inspiration boards in the gallery (http://www.dessy.com/pantone/gallery/) to get inspiration.

Have a look, hope it's helpful! :)

Cheers!

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Permalink Reply by Konstantina Saraidari on March 10, 2010 at 5:00pm

Thanks everyone you have been a great help! you are all amazing!!

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Permalink Reply by Ty on March 15, 2010 at 9:58am

I am using http://www.weddingwire.com because it's user friendly.

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Permalink Reply by Naomi V. Goodman on March 16, 2010 at 3:08am

Hi...I thought I would chime in. Everything everyone has stated, I agreed upon; however, no one addressed the creative side of creating the board. So if you want some hints on that I'd be happy to share my "pearls" on creating boards. I use Style me Pretty & Brida Canvas, too,

:-) Naomi