Photo Book questions...

withoutshoes · May 2009

Hey ladies, I hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I've been racking my brain as to what to get DH and my dad for Father's Day. I think I've settled on a photo book type album. Have any of you ladies made one of these before?

If so,

1. How many pages did you have, how much was it?

2. Who did you use to print the book?

3. How long did it take for them to print it, deliver it, etc?

4. Was it easy for you to create a lay-out?

Thanks ladies!!

raceyrae · May 2009

I've used Photoworks.com for my photo books recently. I am exploring other options but it does give you set layouts that are easy to work with. For a book with max pages (I think it's 80 pages), I paid about $75 (with coupon from on-line). I usually got it within in a week of ordering.

Edit -- mine are hardcover, 8x10s (or something like that) size

mrsmikey · May 2009

I did last year and DH loved it! I swear he carried it around for months.

I got mine from Shutterfly, I forget how many pages, maybe 20? And it was around $11. They have coupons all the time. After I made it, I think I had it in a few days. It was really easy and fun to create. Go online and find cute and meaningful sayings and poems, etc. to fill up some of the space so it's not all pictures. I think that made it extra special. It was just a small 5x7 flip book, nothing hard cover or expensive.

mrs.peggyhill · May 2009

We us Mac so I just use the Mac online service. I had about 30 pages per book and it was about $50-$60 (hardcover).

The books arrived about 1 week after the order was confirmed.

WendyNC · May 2009

I did a 1 year book on Shutterfly right before Christmas. It's pretty user friendly, but you do have to upload all of the pics you want to use to Shutterly. They have lots of choices for covers and themed books. It's basically like a digital scrap book. I think mine was about 55 pages. They run a lot of specials and they are probably having some for Father's day.

SpeedGlenn · May 2009

I used Picaboo because they had more/better/cuter choices for boys. I don't know how many pages. But I think I have your e-mail addy... If I do, I'll send you the link. It was about $60 but I know it would have been less had I used less pages. I had the shipping expedited because I'm a giant procrastinator and waited until the last second to have them done for Mother's Day.

SpeedGlenn · May 2009

Okay - I guess I don't have your e-mail addy, but you can see it here

lah1177 · May 2009

I did Ashley's first year book in Shutterfly. I made a 12x12 hardcover book with I think around 60 some pages. It cost $130 with shipping, but I did not have any coupon offers when I bought it. Her second year book is probably going to be more pages, so I definitely be looking around for coupons

raceyrae · May 2009

SpeedGlenn:
Okay - I guess I don't have your e-mail addy, but you can see it here

That is so cute! Love the alphabet idea.

groovygrl · May 2009

I have used mypublisher & ofoto/kodakgallery. Mypublisher is definitely better in many ways (quality, photo quality, ability to put more text in if you want, etc). I haven't done one in awhile so prices have probably changed.

Another one i hear good things about w/ decent prices is blurb.com

withoutshoes · May 2009

Speed....I love your album. Thanks for sharing! Thanks for all the recommendations ladies! I need to get busy! This looks like a daunting task. Acckkk!

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