Digital photo books? Where do you get yours printed?

[Ann-Marie]

Thanks for that .. ya know sometimes it is better to see for yourself rather than going by the templates IYKWIM? I look forward to having a peek!

[jacinda]

Here's the cover:

And a couple of the pages. Note the journalling close to the border. I forgot to change it on the occasional page. The pages are a lot clearer IRL - I've only photographed them at low res.

Textured paper shows up beautifully:

This page is a good example of the border cropping. Here's what they printed:

And here's my digital file copy:

So you see they didn't cut much off at all. And the colour is pretty much close to the digital copy. My camera lightened it a bit much.

[Ann-Marie]

Oh WOW thanks so much for that. I suppose for as long as I keep "important " things away from the punched holes then I'll be fine. I think I may go for a lay flat book afterall. I LOVE your 12 months page OMG She is just too darn cute!!!

thanks so much for showing this for reference. It's helped me heaps!!

[fazzbech]

Your book looks amazing Jacinda!

[amandac]

Oh wow Jacinda your book looks FABULOUS! Loving your 12 month page to bits!

My eldest DD is finishing Grade 7 this year and I am thinking about doing a photo book to present to her at Christmas recording her Primary School years - so I really appreciate seeing how your book has come out!

[esther_a]

I've had books printed with MyReflections and Momento (www.momento.com.au). They are very similar. I printed A4 and they had much the same options.
Momento has 210x210 (8"x8") photo books for $80 + $1 per page (but they have no 12"x12" option).
I found that Momento
*was more expensive
*has brilliant page LO software if you want ideas on how to place your photos on your page (I use it just to plan my regular pages!)
*had robust hand bounding
*the print was possibly marginally better
*the dust cover was more vibrant
but
* they did not trim the pages as neatly - a bit crooked, sometimes left white edges when the design had the photo going right to the edge, required a larger crop.
* the binding was a little loose - I could see the actual stitches and I could see the area between the pages which was white (past the edge of the photos)

So MyReflections was
* cheaper
* so very close to just-as-good
* much more precise with the page cropping
* a great option if you're doing your own page designs and don't need clever page layout software

I love all my books!!

Esther

[Adelle]

Jacinda, your photo book looks lovely I wish I had your creative talent. As for printing companies I've heard good things about Mixbook, but haven't worked with them. Personally, I was very happy with Red-Fly (red-fly.com) because they have reasonable prices (Mixbook is pricier) and I was pleased with the quality of the print. Tip: always choose premium paper regardless of the company you go for, the price difference isn't so big, but there's a huge difference in the quality of the paper.
Hope this helped

[Yinaybalian]

i also agree with all suggestions as i also recently had my photobook of size 8x8. with atlest 200 photo graphs in it and with hard bound cover in it. i would recommend photobook as its must cheaper and safer to keep than individual photographs copy