Arranging the Pages for a Hardcover Photo Book

If you intend to export your slide deck to a hardcover photo album, you will need to pay attention to the number of pages.

• Each slide corresponds to a page in the book.
• You do not need a slide for the inside front cover and the inside back cover, which are already blank when printed.
• Slides work in pairs to create facing pages in the book. If you decide to add one single slide beyond what is provided in the template, it will make all the subsequent pages in the book jump a page forward, making many of the matching page pairs out of sync. Instead, replace a current slide with your new slide, or add your new slides in pairs.  (This does not matter for a digital presentation, and you may choose to do one version for print and then create a different version for digital where you can be a little more free).

Illustrated Using the Starter Template

It starts with the book cover, which is also SLIDE 1.

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Layout help for the Starter Template/Presentation Album

It starts with the cover (SLIDE 1)

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Then imagine there is a phantom page in between the cover and the 2nd page in google slides. That is because the The inside of the front cover will be a nice black page, protecting the cover wrap, making the “This is us” page the first thing you see when you open the book. 

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Back cover (last of the google slides):

Hint:

It’s very helpful to know that the even pages are going to be on the right and the odd pages will be on the left 

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