LaTeX Photo Album Template

A LaTeX template for creating beautiful photo albums with various layout options on A3 landscape paper.

Features

• A3 landscape paper format
• Multiple layout options for arranging photos
• Uses tcolorbox for clean, borderless image placement
• Automatic page breaks between layouts
• Support for PNG and JPG images (LaTeX does not support HEIF format)

Requirements

• LaTeX distribution (TeX Live, MiKTeX, etc.)
• pdflatex compiler
• tcolorbox package
• geometry package

Installation

1. Clone or download this repository
2. Place your images in the images/ directory
3. Modify main.tex to include your desired layouts and image files

Usage

Layout Commands

The template provides several layout commands for arranging images:

• \layoutOne{image} - Full page single image
• \layoutTwo{image1}{image2} - Two images side by side
• \layoutThree{image1}{image2}{image3} - Three images (2 on left, 1 on right)
• \layoutFour{image1}{image2}{image3} - Three images (1 on left, 2 on right)
• \layoutFive{image1}{image2}{image3}{image4} - Four images in a 2x2 grid

Example

\layoutTwo{photo1.jpg}{photo2.png}
\layoutThree{img1.png}{img2.jpg}{img3.png}
\layoutOne{cover.jpg}

Compilation

Run the included compile script:

./compile.sh

Or manually:

pdflatex main.tex

This will generate main.pdf and clean up auxiliary files.

Customization

• Modify layouts.tex to adjust layout dimensions or add new layouts
• Change paper size in main.tex by editing the \documentclass options
• Adjust margins and geometry in the \usepackage{geometry} options

File Structure

.
├── main.tex          # Main document file
├── layouts.tex       # Layout command definitions
├── compile.sh        # Compilation script
├── images/           # Directory for image files
└── README.md         # This file

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.