This web site provides high quality construction photos for making books of construction photos. An easy way to make tough, high quality, durable, flexible photo books is to print photos, put them in transparent plastic sleeves, and bind them in a loose-leaf ring binder or with binder rings, as shown here.

To make a Construction Photo Book, you first need construction photos. The most straightforward way, if you have access to a decent color inkjet printer, is to download photo .jpg files from MyConstructionPhotos and print them on inkjet photo printing paper, as was done here. Captions can be printed on the photos or beneath/beside them.

The other good ways to get photos for your Construction Photo Book are:
1. Purchase them from the web site, SmugMug, that hosts MyConstructionPhotos, as has been done here.
2. Save the original photo .jpg files as described below and have them printed at a local hometown photo print shop or send them to an on-line print shop, of which there are several (Shutterfly, Walmart, etc).
Among the different types of paper, I like glossy for construction photos to show color and details the best , whether I am purchasing prints or printing the photos myself.

The first step in printing is to download the original file from MyConstructionPhotos to your computer and save it.
(1) Click on Save Photo on the Other Sizes line below the photo, or
(2) Click on SmugMug photo until you get to the original photofile I produced, which is shown in this screen shot. Then right-click on photo window, click Save Image As and download it to your computer giving it whatever name you wish (do not change .jpg suffix on file name), or
(3) Right-click on photo, click Copy Image, then Paste it into any Windows software. I use MS Word for printing pages.

Generally, a .jpg photo file (as are all from SmugMug) is best inserted into some type of publishing software for printing. This allows formatting and adding caption information from photo and making other custom changes. I use Microsoft Word, which I use to do a lot of my work. Here I have pasted into Word the original .jpg photo file I downloaded. I separately copied from MyConstructionPhotos and pasted into MS Word the photo's caption from the SmugMug site. I added a footer "BOB CARR'S CONSTRUCTION BOOK", common to all pages.

Printing the caption on the photo is another good way to print construction photos. The caption is always with the photo, good or bad.

I pasted the .jpg file into MS Word. I then added a text box, in which I pasted the caption I had copied from MyConstructionPhotos. I highlighted the text box, right clicked to get Format Text Box Window, clicked "In front of text" to place text box in front of the photo. I selected a text box font color I liked, a yellow to match Caterpillar's. Here is the result. All this is illustrated in a following figure.

Captions have been placed in text boxes in these two photos, which allows the photos to be larger on the page than when captions are below photo.

The background of the text boxes has been darkened to make the text clear by clicking on text box, then clicking Format Text Box, Color and Lines, and setting Fill Color to black and Transparency to 80%, in MS Word. This is shown in following figure.

This MS Word overlay shows various elements of captioning a photo in Word.

The blue rectangle is the text box containing the caption. The small red rectangle shows the Format menu item, which is also shown.

The brown rectangle on the Format menu and on the Font window show the selection of Arial font and yellow font color.

The orange outlining on the Format menu Format Text Box window show Layout selection to place text box In front of text.

The green outlining shows the selection of Fill Color and Transparency in the Colors and Lines tab of the Format Text Box.

Together, these format the text box as shown better in an earlier figure. To see it most clearly, select Original size by clicking on figure.

Slip the captioned photos into good clear plastic sleeves, connect with rings or put in loose-leaf ring binder, and you have produced a unique, beautiful book of construction photos that will also stand up to many, many readings.

Get clear presentation sleeves, rings, and ring binders at an office supplies store, such as Office Depot, Office Max, or Staples.

When prints are purchased or printed without captions, the captions can be printed and added in the sleeve, as here.