Adobe Spark is one online program you can use to design jpegs for a multipage family history PDF with Adobe Spark. You’ll have to create each page separately and then turn it into a pdf. Here you can see three pages I’ve already created which are stored in my personal projects. Even though I have a paid Adobe subscription, I’m using the free version that puts a logo on each page just to demonstrate how it works.

To get started, log into your Adobe Spark account and click on the plus mark. To start a new project, scroll to the bottom and click on Create A Graphic. Click Start From Scratch. Click Custom and enter your dimensions. I’m going to enter 1024 by 768. This is a small size, but it’s a common size for presenting on a computer or mobile device and that’s what you’ll be doing with this PDF. Click Next and on the Choose Photos page you can click the Upload button to upload a photo you want for your first PDF page, or if you want to work on the design first, click skip, which is what I’ll do in the column on the right.

Click Layout and choose a grid design based on the number of photos and text areas you want. My first page is a title page with one photo and a title, so I’ll choose a two-column grid, and here I want my type on the right, so let’s try just clicking the shuffle icon and that moves it over to the right. I'm invited to double click to edit the text, so that’s what I’ll do. Select all the text and type in your new text. I’m going to type my title in all caps, “Hike to Mirror Lake,” and then click done. You can choose a different font from the font family. I’m going to choose True North.

Click and drag the handles to resize the type and then move it into place. I can also change the color by clicking on color in the type bar. Scroll to All Colors and you have lots of options. I could make this a totally different color, but I’m going to click on this one right here that I use most often, which is the black and white option. You can click the Shuffle icon to make the background black and the text white, but I'm going to shuffle that back and use black type. Click outside your document to commit the type.

To add some more type like a date, perhaps, click on the Add button and choose Text. Enter your text and click done. “Circa 1990.” I’ll change the font to Josephine Blab if I can find it here. There it is, and then I can resize this. And let’s also change the color. Gonna switch that to black over white, resize it just a little more and click to commit. Click on the right grid section to activate it and click on white to make the background white, and now the text is black on a white background. Let’s also click on the left panel and drag it a little to the right by one of the tabs. Right there and click to comment.

Now I have a very elegant title page for my PDF. All I have to do is upload my photo. Let’s do that by clicking on this left section. I’ll click on a photo and upload photo. Choose your photo, and I’m going to choose this one right here, and then I can make any adjustments. I’m going to move this down just a little bit and there I have my title page. Maybe move that up slightly and that looks good to me.

All I have to do now is put a title for this up here under my post, and I’m going to name this “1990 Mirror Lake-1.” If you name the PDF pages sequentially, they’ll upload to the Jpeg to PDF website sequentially, so all my other ones will be named the same, except they’ll have the next number. Now I can click the download button and I’m done with the first page. Once you’ve made one page of your pdf and downloaded it, click in the upper left corner on the Spark logo or on Projects to go back to your projects. You’ll see the project you just made, so now all you have to do is duplicate it to create the rest of your pages in the exact same size. Hover your mouse over it, click on the three dots in the upper right and choose Duplicate. Change the page number to the number 2 for the next page in the sequence and click okay.

Now, click on the copied page to edit. Now I’m not going to go through and create each page, but let’s quickly go over how to take one page and turn it into another page. Click on layout on the right and choose the layout you want.

For your next page, I need three sections for this page and I want the taller section on the left. Now let’s go ahead and get rid of this title. We don’t need that anymore. I’m going to move the other, type up to the top and click on the left section and drag that over to the right. I want that side to be bigger. We’ll click on this bottom one and drag it up just a little bit. Now let’s click on the left one over here and click replace. We’ll click upload photo and I’ll choose this first one right here by double clicking on it. Now I’ll click on the other section, choose replace, click Upload Photo, and we’re going to use this one right here. And that looks great. I could adjust these if I want to, but I don’t need to, so I’m now I’m going to double click on the type and I’ve already typed some type and put it into my computer clipboard so I can paste that in and click done.

Need to resize that and let’s use left align. Need to adjust it just a little bit. That looks good right there and I’m done. So that's my second page of my pdf that I can download as a jpeg. Once you’re done with all your pages, you can turn them into a pdf by uploading them to a site like ConvertJPEGtoPDF.net.