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Build your Core Family Biography With GreatAlbum

Created by ErikG on 03-Mar-22
Updated by ErikG on 03-Mar-22

Build your Core Family Biography With GreatAlbum

  1. Now…what would it be like for this family if they used GreatAlbum?!
  2. Daughter performs in school play on Wednesday
    1. Mom takes pictures, which automatically upload to Apple Photos
    2. GreatAlbum automatically imports them from Apple Photos and creates an event in her private album
    3. Mom updates event details and moves event/media to the Family Album
    4. Now it’s part of the family biography, and other members of the Family Album are notified of the event and can view its media
  3. Son plays in a school basketball game on Friday
    1. Dad takes a lot of pictures, which automatically upload to Google Photos
    2. GreatAlbum automatically imports them from Google Photos and creates an event in his Private Album
    3. Dad updates event details and moves event/media to the Family Album
    4. Now it’s part of the family biography, and other members of the Family Album are notified of the event and can view its media
  4. Family goes apple picking on Saturday 
    1. They all took pictures - Mom, Dad, Son and Daughter
    2. For each, their photos are automatically uploaded to their respective Apple or Google Photos accounts 
    3. GreatAlbum automatically imports those into their respective Private GreatAlbums and creates an event for each of them with related media
    4. They each move their events/media into the Family Album - which results in four instances of the same event in that album
    5. Mom selects the events created by Dad, Son & Daughter and merges them her event - now there is one event with media from all four of them
    6. Mom writes a short story to share highlights of the day’s adventure
    7. All members of the Family Album are notified of the new event/story/media, so they can easily enjoy them
  5. Son has a school project in to highlight major events in his life
    1. Many of his life events have been captured in photos/videos, which were automatically organized into events and shared in his Family Album
    2. The son browses through the few hundred events of his life captured in the Family Album
    3. He picks 20 that he feels best represent the highlights of his life so far
    4. For several of them, Mom or Dad even wrote a story to capture some of the details and emotions of the event, which help him appreciate them even more than he remembered
    5. It’s easy for him to share these in his school project, including quotes from family members that were captured at the time
  6. Daughter is graduating from high school
    1. Parents want to create a slideshow to highlight/celebrate events from her life so far
    2. Since many of her life events have been captured in photos/videos, which were automatically organized into events and shared in their Family Album, it’s easy for them to browse through those events and pick ones that best highlight her life’s journey so far
    3. For each of those events, they pick 1-2 pictures to represent, and create a 10 minute slideshow that they feel beautifully captures the essence of their daughter’s journey to reach her HS graduation
    4. They’re also able to include quotes from some of experiences which were captured in stories at the time of those events.
    5. Best of all, the slideshow is available to everyone who joins in the celebration, because it’s been shared in the Celebrate Daughter’s Graduation album, where family and friends are able to share their own stories and media to celebrate her journey and how she has touched their lives.
  7. Before daughter leaves the nest and goes off to college, she thinks it would be really cool if the family did a movie night to watch highlights of their 18 years together as a family
    1. Now, with GreatAlbum, this becomes a breeze! Even with 300,000 parents’ pictures/videos and another 150,000 by the kids, the family can easily create/watch different playlists to represent their life together.
    2. First they decide to watch a playlist of kids sports events over the years, so they create a list of the 100 sports game/tournament events in their Family Album and play a slideshow of the cover pictures for each event - which takes 8-10 minutes.
    3. Next, they want to watch a playlist of family vacations over the years, so they create a list of 50 family vacation events in their Family Album and play a slideshow of 3 favorite pictures for each event - which takes ~15 minutes.
    4. They continue to create and watch a number of playlists to highlight fun themes, like first days of school, birthdays, school plays, and revel in all of their family experiences together until late into the night!

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