Photobook - Help!......

donekdonek Registered Users Posts: 655 Major grins
edited July 27, 2007 in The Big Picture
I decided I print a photo book as a gift. I've tried about 5 different sites and all of them are hopelessly flawed. I started with Walmart. Their site doesn't have the bandwidth to provide previews of the images I've uploaded and it doesn't indicate a filename, so I have no way of actually placing a photo on a page. Mpix only offers a solid black cover without any text or photos. At least it doesn't seem possible to add it with their software I downloaded. I looked at several more including blurb through flickr. Their software seems incapable of dealing with jpg images as they appear as a blurry blueish blob in the book.

Can anyone suggest a photobook site that actually works? I'm almost ready to go out and buy a photo album and glue photos in the old fashioned way.
Sean Martin
www.seanmartinphoto.com

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  • claudermilkclaudermilk Registered Users Posts: 2,756 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2007
    Search is your friend deal.gif

    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=38968&highlight=book+sites

    A long discussion of your options with some very good feedback.
    Chris
    http://www.chrislaudermilkphoto.com/
  • KvPhotoKvPhoto Registered Users Posts: 364 Major grins
    edited July 26, 2007
    donek wrote:
    I decided I print a photo book as a gift. I've tried about 5 different sites and all of them are hopelessly flawed. I started with Walmart. Their site doesn't have the bandwidth to provide previews of the images I've uploaded and it doesn't indicate a filename, so I have no way of actually placing a photo on a page. Mpix only offers a solid black cover without any text or photos. At least it doesn't seem possible to add it with their software I downloaded. I looked at several more including blurb through flickr. Their software seems incapable of dealing with jpg images as they appear as a blurry blueish blob in the book.

    Can anyone suggest a photobook site that actually works? I'm almost ready to go out and buy a photo album and glue photos in the old fashioned way.

    I have found Shutterfly's books to be great. www.shutterfly.com
    ~~Kristina
    www.kvtphotography.com
  • indiegirlindiegirl Registered Users Posts: 930 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2007
    mypublisher.com has the best quality of the books I've seen/created.

    Jesse
    main | recent work |
  • BenBen Vanilla Admin Posts: 513 SmugMug Employee
    edited July 27, 2007
    For me, it is a no-brainer. http://www.blurb.com/

    I have ordered a LOT of books through a lot of places to test possible partnerships and opportunities with SmugMug.

    But I order my personal books through Blurb. :)
    Smug since 2003
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