Smugmug Photo Books

dlplumer

Can we order books from Smugmug?? Sorry if this has been asked a million times.:D

Dan

Andy

Sure From two sources:
http://www.smugmug.com/prints/catalog2.mg Try the 'Buy' button when you are logged into your gallery

dlplumer

duh

Thanks

waldo647

Create Photo Book like PageMaker or InDesign?

Andy wrote:

Sure From two sources:
http://www.smugmug.com/prints/catalog2.mg Try the 'Buy' button when you are logged into your gallery

Is there a free form program out there that will let us create picture boxes or containers, based on the image, and move them around on the page? Blurb is driving me nuts. With all their templates, it's like DirecTV (hundreds of channels and 90% are useless). After working with PageMaker and Indesign over the years, I feel like I'm back in 3rd grade. They don't even have a way to mirror a layout on facing pages! Aperture doesn't seem to be much better. I'm taking a look at MyCanvas, uploading a gallery as this is being typed.

Just wanted to leave a question here, in the meantime. Call me crazy, but in my creative world the images, and their final cropped format, should determine the shape and size of the picture boxes, *not* the other way around.

Suggestions really appreciated!

JPCanvas

waldo647 wrote:

Is there a free form program out there that will let us create picture boxes or containers, based on the image, and move them around on the page? Blurb is driving me nuts. With all their templates, it's like DirecTV (hundreds of channels and 90% are useless). After working with PageMaker and Indesign over the years, I feel like I'm back in 3rd grade. They don't even have a way to mirror a layout on facing pages! Aperture doesn't seem to be much better. I'm taking a look at MyCanvas, uploading a gallery as this is being typed.

Just wanted to leave a question here, in the meantime. Call me crazy, but in my creative world the images, and their final cropped format, should determine the shape and size of the picture boxes, *not* the other way around.

Suggestions really appreciated!

Hi waldo647. I think you'll find what you're looking for with MyCanvas. We built it to allow complete creative freedom with our books. You can use our predesigned templates or start from scratch but in either case you have complete freedom after you get started. You can put photos, text and embellishments wherever you want and you can rotate, crop, resize, change backgrounds, move pages, delete, undo, and more... Also, once you've place photos wherever you want you can copy that page and use it as a template. Just copy it and drag and drop the new photos onto the old photos of the new copied page. Have fun with it and let us know what you think.

Thanks,
John

waldo647

JPCanvas wrote:

Hi waldo647. I think you'll find what you're looking for with MyCanvas. We built it to allow complete creative freedom with our books. You can use our predesigned templates or start from scratch but in either case you have complete freedom after you get started. You can put photos, text and embellishments wherever you want and you can rotate, crop, resize, change backgrounds, move pages, delete, undo, and more... Also, once you've place photos wherever you want you can copy that page and use it as a template. Just copy it and drag and drop the new photos onto the old photos of the new copied page. Have fun with it and let us know what you think.

Thanks,
John

Hi John & others reading my earlier post,

Thanks for your reply! I was able to complete the project in Blurb, and I'm mostly happy with the book, given limitations. I look forward to trying MyCanvas soon, as well! It certainly sounds interesting...

BTW, I didn't mean bash Blurb here. I realize they're a well-respected outfit. I spent 20 minutes talking to them at MacWorld last year, and really enjoyed the books they brought along as demos.

I took a course on the history of photo books summer before last at Stanford Continuing Studies, so admittedly, I may be coming at this from a different vantage point. As part of that course, I created a manual dummy book of my photo project, showing the decay at Fort Ord along with its new life.

Maybe this helps explain why I was feeling a bit confined with Blurb's templates.

Best,
- Chris

cal_gecko

Are there options for those of us with Pro accounts, who want to offer photo books to customers - but want to be able to mark them up for profit?

Andy

cal_gecko wrote:

Are there options for those of us with Pro accounts, who want to offer photo books to customers - but want to be able to mark them up for profit?

Via SmugMug, not yet.

rickd

Andy wrote: »

Via SmugMug, not yet.

I know this is an old thread, but not sure if this feature has been implemented for our customers, but I'm looking at using these photo books as part of ordering packaged orders. I'm using one of my galleries for fund raising and this and calendars would add alot of value.

Andy

Hi Rick, not for customers yet, I'm sorry.

mterrace

Andy wrote: »

Hi Rick, not for customers yet, I'm sorry.

Hi Andy,

Are Photo Books in the works (to be offered to customers)? I too would be very interested...

Mark

tlphotos

I see this is an old post too, but I too am interested in photo books. I would like to allow my friends who have galleries with family specific passwords to be able to create photo books from their specific gallery(s). No mark ups for the books, but be able to use any gallery for which they have a password. Is there any way around this or is it in the works at SmugMug?

Andy

Hi, this is not possible yet on SmugMug, I'm sorry.

BladeFlap

rickd wrote: »

I know this is an old thread, but not sure if this feature has been implemented for our customers, but I'm looking at using these photo books as part of ordering packaged orders. I'm using one of my galleries for fund raising and this and calendars would add alot of value.

+1000

I would LOVE the option to sell calendars direct from my Smugmug page.
I went through hell last year with RedBubble.