How Do I Prepare Photos for a Photo Book?
Photo book services sort by date and choke on some formats. Here is what to sort out first.
Most photo book tools lay photos out in date order automatically. If your photos have no dates, that ordering is random and you end up dragging hundreds of pictures around by hand.
Format matters too. Many print services do not accept HEIC from an iPhone, and sideways photos sometimes print sideways if the rotation is only a metadata flag rather than baked into the image.
Takeout JSON Metadata Fixer fixes all three at once: it writes the real dates, converts HEIC to JPG, and rotates sideways photos properly so they print upright. Free for your first 500 photos.