Comments on: Photo Book Reccomendations

Question: Photo Book Reccomendations

superbird — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:27:36 -0800

What are some good ways to create an affordable hard-bound photo book online?

My wife and I used Snapfish to create these as Christmas presents this year, but the interface has some real problems and certain aspects of Snapfish just annoy us. So what other things are similar to Snapfish that we can use to create a nice memory/photo book?

By: mzurer

mzurer — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:32:58 -0800

If you have a Mac, you can do this in iPhoto.

By: whatnotever

whatnotever — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:33:28 -0800

Most recent relevant question. Lots of links there, to other Ask Mefi questions also.

By: LoriFLA

LoriFLA — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:45:18 -0800

The Today Show had a little piece on photo books this morning during a gift guide segment. The one they featured was from lulu.com. I am thinking of going this route. It's quicker and easier than traditional scrapbooking.

By: mostlymartha

mostlymartha — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:05:06 -0800

Slate had a shopping feature that reviewed different sites that do these based on quality, price, and service. They liked Shutterfly best. The whole article is here:

http://www.slate.com/id/2143039/

By: filmgeek

filmgeek — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:05:40 -0800

If you're on a PC, what you want is Picasa (from Google, software free).

Print information here

And I believe it has some interface with tabblo

By: perpetualstroll

perpetualstroll — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:08:06 -0800

Here's an article from Cool Tools

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:21:16 -0800

I did hardback baby books for grandparents from Snapfish.com and I was very happy with the results. As always, YMMV.

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:59:28 -0800

And I was very pleased with my book made with Shutterfly. They came out on top in this review of photobooks made online.

By: forensicphd

forensicphd — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:20:11 -0800

I did one documenting my youngest son's first year of life from MyPublisher. It was around $50 with a black linen cover with cutout front displaying an opening photo. It would have been $30 but I added extra pages beyond the (I think) 20 that are included in the lower price. I was VERY happy with it, and I am anal about things like that. It was exactly what I expected and the interface was easy to use. I didn't use any of their templates; I created all my pages in PhotoShop and uploaded them as a full-page photo, but there are many templates you can use. The pages and binding are very good quality and you can get them printed on one side or both sides of the pages. My entire album was black and white so I don't know how accurate their color printing is. Hope this helps.

By: christinetheslp

christinetheslp — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:49:34 -0800

I'd like to second Shutterfly. I made some very nice little wedding albums for my parents, and the interface was easy to use.

By: scooterdog

scooterdog — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:12:27 -0800

I second the suggestion of using MyPublisher - highly rated by Walt Mossberg of the WSJ, and I've been a happy customer of theirs now for two years in a row. Their software (Windows) runs well and has recently been upgraded.

The books I've produced were in color, used their templates, and like the fact that I can add text captions unlike many of the others.

By: pyjammy

pyjammy — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:12:26 -0800

I do this for a living (design photo albums for weddings) and I've had real problems with MyPublisher (who, incidentally, also makes the iPhoto ones.) I have had the best luck with Shutterfly. What I do, though, is create full-bleed pages in Photoshop and upload them to Shutterfly and use their full-bleed template.