Mixbook is kicking off June with lots of new themes for you to choose from! With Father’s Day just around the corner, we not only have a brand new theme for you to use, but a coupon to go with it. Get 20% off with the coupon code COOLDAD21 until Monday, June 8th at 11:59pm PST. It’s just our way of appreciating all the Dads out there!

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The end of the school year, and the pride and joy of your life is going to walk to receive that long-awaited diploma. What better gift than to make a Mixbook telling your child how proud you are? Here is our Graduation Theme for you to enjoy:

Another similar theme recently released is our Senior Farewell theme! It’s a fun and bright way to document the last memorable days as a senior and graduation day.

But wait, there’s more! We added another yearbook theme called Simple Yearbook. It’s just as simple as ordering one.

Our last theme release goes to the category of babies. Our Scrapbook Baby theme is a wonderfully cute book that is filled with bright ribbons and stickers that you can use to document your baby’s day to day life.

Whew! That was a lot to get through. Hope you enjoy these guys! Remember, all of the theme stickers can mix and match with others if you so choose. Have a wonderful summer day and enjoy the new themes!

Jasmine

I know it’s been a long time, but we’ve been super busy preparing wonderful new features that are coming up, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, I’ll be teaching you how to manipulate our new photo shapes. Now we can now combine stickers and photo shapes to make Mixbooks look all the more amazing.

The page above was made by using our photo shapes and flower stickers. Cool, right? It’s also super easy. All you have to do is select a Sticker (like flowers), drag the circle shape on top, and drag your desired photo into the circle shape.

You can do the same for the heart shape. To elongate a shape, be sure to click and drag the corners of the bounding box (the yellow border seen when an object is selected) to stretch and re-size it. If you drag the corners it will enlarge the shape, while dragging the sides will stretch it out.

Here’s another example of what you can do with this feature:

This particular layout was made by super-sizing the snail sticker, then we unchecked the border box in the “Frame” tab for the circle shape. Then we dragged and dropped the photo into the circle shape, elongating it slightly to the left to make it fit the curve of the snail sticker. We also used flower stickers and circle shapes to drag and drop photos into.

Anyways, hope you enjoyed this tutorial, keep making those beautiful Mixbooks and check back soon for some exciting updates!

May Day, over and out,

Jasmine

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With the end of the school year coming up, this would be the perfect opportunity to create a Mixbook with all of your students and faculty. Use the new stickers to make school related pages, or if you’re a student you can make a parting book for all of your friends. And we even added autograph pages for everyone to sign! There is no limit to what you can do with the new theme, so check it out!

Thanks for reading,

Jasmine

SAN JOSE, Calif, May 04, 2009 –Mixbook (Mixbook.com), the free online photo service that allows users to collaboratively create personalized photo books, today announced its yearbook program for schools and groups. Mixbook’s new program allows schools and groups to collaboratively create personalized yearbooks with powerful online editing software – allowing students, schools and groups unprecedented freedom to creatively express themselves and preserve their memories in high quality printed yearbooks.

“We wanted to create a school yearbook editor with limitless creative power.  In a matter of minutes, a student, teacher or parent can create a personalized yearbook,” said Andrew Laffoon, CEO & Co-founder of Mixbook. “And with our unique features such as the ability to easily copy and customize a book, it is possible to quickly create individual books for every member of your classroom.”

Mixbook Yearbook Program offers:

• Powerful Creative Features – Move, crop, rotate, pan and zoom on photos; add stickers and backgrounds; and create custom layouts.
• Free Online Storage and Sharing – Every yearbook will be preserved forever for free, so it is easy to share and re-order copies for years to come.
• Full Color, Quality Yearbooks – Mixbook’s high-quality, full-color hardcover yearbooks are all case sewn with 100 lb, archival-quality paper.
• Fast Shipping, Affordable Price - Producing a yearbook takes only 3-5 business days, and pricing starts at just $12.99 for a full-color, high-quality book.
• No Minimum Order Quantity – Mixbook makes it possible to order individual yearbooks for every student.

Hundreds of schools around the world already use Mixbook in the classroom for collaborative class projects, yearbooks, or even creating unique photo gifts.  Experience how easy Mixbook is to use with their 30-second video demo or visit http://www.mixbook.com.

About Mixbook

Mixbook is a free online service for creating and sharing personalized photo books that offers the world’s first collaborative scrapbook editor for creating photo books. Mixbook’s intuitive online software allows users to quickly and easily create professional-looking photo books and then fully personalize them with hundreds of free creative elements. Users can then share their creations on the web or as high-quality printed photo books. Try it yourself at http://www.mixbook.com.

For more information, please email: press@mixbook.com.

Here are some ideas to make this day special and memorable for her.

5. Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner
You can always treat your mother out to dinner, but cooking definitely requires a lot of thought and effort. Step into your mom’s shoes and give her hands a break from cooking. A nice breakfast or brunch in bed, or an elaborately planned out dinner will definitely make your mother feel appreciated. That is, of course, if you do the dishes too.

4. Flowers Fade, but Cards Last Forever!
I usually make my mom a card every year, and it can be pretty hard to think of something you haven’t said before. But nevertheless, I know my mom still appreciates it because she keeps every single one! So while you can purchase fleeting flowers with a simple “Love, ____”, consider writing something from the heart to your mother. Come up with creative ways to decorate it too! It doesn’t matter if you’re “artsy” or not, anything that shows effort will be noted by the one who knows you best.

3. Hugs, Kisses, and I Love Yous
When was the last time you hugged or kissed your mother? Or told her you loved her? For Mother’s Day, give your mother a real bear hug– and we mean the kind that lasts more than 10 seconds. Give her a kiss, tell her you LOVE her, and how much you appreciate all of her efforts. It might make her cry, but we hope they’ll be tears of joy!

2. Gifts
If you want to show your appreciation by purchasing your mother something, think of something either practical or decorative. A photo frame or vase of flowers would be nice, or maybe purchase music that she enjoys. If you have some budget, put together a “favorite things” basket and fill it with all the things that she loves! Maybe it’s gardening, tennis, cooking, or scrapbooking! Whatever it is, include some fun knick knacks or gadgets, some of her favorite chocolates, and include a note about why you chose those certain items.

1. A Mixbook!
Okay, we might be a little biased, but it’s seriously a good idea. What better way to combine all of the previous ideas into one? Making a Mixbook with family photos, heart felt words, and beautiful page spreads is the perfect gift to appreciate your mother.

If you’re worried about it getting to you in time, don’t worry. Mixbook currently has a special promotion: Free Rush Processing on all books, only until May 3rd! That’s this Sunday! That means that you choose Next Day Air for shipping and we’ll rush process it for you. This leaves you enough time to make one over the weekend and have it in your hands before Mother’s Day. If you don’t have enough time to make one from scratch, we have a Mother’s day template for you. Click here to get started, then select the Mother’s Day theme.

Remember, as long as it’s from the heart, it is good enough for her. Have a wonderful weekend and be sure to check back for more specials and exciting updates from Mixbook!

Jasmine

Excited for Mother’s Day? Our Mother’s Day promotion only lasts for 2 more days, so hop to it! But in other Mixbook news, did you notice anything different when you entered the Mixbook Editor?

That’s right, it a Helper tool! We have added this spiffy tool to help give you an overview on how you can use the Mixbook Editor in 8 short and simple slides. It is especially useful for those who are new to Mixbook. To find it, it is under the “Help” button next to the Full Screen button.

We hope this will help people who want to know more about what Mixbook has to offer.
And as always, feel free to send an email to support@mixbook.com for any questions, comments, or concerns.

Keep an eye out for more exciting updates at Mixbook, because there’s so much more to come!

Always a pleasure,

Jasmine

We’ve made making a Mixbook for your mom fast and simple in these pre-made pages. Also, in celebration of our hard working mothers, we have an awesome 20% off promotion for Mother’s Day! Just type in the coupon code: MOMLUV20 before you pay for your order. This coupon only lasts until Sunday, April 26, so don’t let this pass!

Get to work kids, and start making YOUR Mother’s Day photo book! To get started click here!

Oh, by the way, if you didn’t know, Mixbook also released two new themes. Please check out our brand new Cruise theme and Simple Wedding theme.

Cruise Theme

Simple Wedding Theme

Let us know what you think by posting a comment below, or e-mailing us at support@mixbook.com . Enjoy these 3 brand new themes and the 20% coupon!

Cruising away,

Jasmine

Shapes allow you to finally crop your photos to something other than a square or rectangle. We have shapes such as stars, circles, and more available for you to create. All of these shapes can be found under your stickers tab. This is super exciting since it will definitely open up a new can of worms to another creative realm. We hope you will enjoy this new feature!

If you have any questions or comments, please leave a comment or send us an e-mail at support@mixbook.com .

But wait, there’s more!

To those who were unaware, we launched a special Easter promotion of FREE MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING in the Continental U.S. that expires on April 22 at 11:59 pm. Just type in the code: FRMEDAPR09 at check out. This is our way of thanking you for being our valued customers and supporters, so if you were thinking about buying a Mixbook you made, go for it! Mother’s day is just around the corner too!

We sincerely hope you enjoy our latest release. Have a happy Easter everyone!

The Mixbook Team

At Mixbook, we strive to keep everything drag-and-drop simple. With shapes, it will be no different. Simply drag a shape from the “Stickers” tap over a photo and “voila!”, we’ll turn that photo into that shape. Pretty cool, eh?

This wonderful photo book is about a year of living in Japan made by our friend Lori. This book has a year’s worth of beautiful and artistic photos from all over Japan. From the food Lori and her husband ate, to the places they visited and the people they met - the culture and the very essence of Japan is here for your viewing pleasure. I hope she ordered a copy, because this book is definitely coffee table worthy! So check it out and look out for our new site updates coming in just a few days! I’m counting down the minutes

Have a lovely rest of your week!

Jasmine