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What is the best website to create a photo book?

Asked by Cupcake (1341points) | asked 1 month ago | 11 responses | “Great Question” (0points) | Flag as…

Have you made photo books? What website did you use? Were you happy with the options available? The price? The end result?

I’ve looked at a couple different websites and felt limited by the layout options.

I have a couple/few hundred wedding pictures and am trying to decide if I would like them all printed or made into a photo book. I want it to be pretty simple – no frilly wedding layout – and the ability to put several pictures on a page.

What is your experience with photo books?

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gussnarp's avatar

I made a really nice photo book with Shutterfly. There are lots of layouts in terms of backgrounds as well as picture placement, and you can choose from a pretty huge variety of picture placement layouts for each page, including multiple pictures. The process was pretty easy and I was totally pleased with the outcome. I will use them again.

whitenoise's avatar

I like the iphoto app for making a photobook and ordering it as well.

Alternatively: www.hema.nl for the Dutchies.

drClaw's avatar

Costco has a really nice one, we’ve used it a few times and were very impressed with the quality…

http://www.costco.com/Service/FeaturePage.aspx?ProductNo=11268534

ElleBee's avatar

I agree with @gussnarp ; I don’t use the site directly, but my Dad is a photographer and uses it a lot. I have looked at a ton of his pictures on it and really enjoy all the different themes and looks he has done. Makes looking at 1500 pictures of trees a lot more enjoyable! – LB

JONESGH's avatar

Like @gussnarp said, shutterfly is great. We used it to make my grandparents a photo book for their anniversary and it turned out great.

Cupcake's avatar

My friend just emailed me about blurb.com – has anyone ever tried that website?

Beta_Orionis's avatar

I’ve always thought that http://www.mypublisher.com/ looked pretty nice.

fireinthepriory's avatar

I like lulu.com because I lay out my books in inDesign and it allows you to upload a .pdf instead of using their software like Blurb and mypublisher both make you do. I have friends who’ve used both, they were pleased with the product but I did not like the way they had to lay them out online, which is irksome to me. You can choose from a bunch of bindings and things at lulu, too. I like perfect bound soft cover books, personally. If you’re unsure about how to be formatting your .pdf you can even do a live online chat with a person, which is really useful… although I’ve always found their FAQ was definitely detailed enough for me to figure everything out, and I’m a self-taught inDesign user. I even managed to make a wrap cover and placed the spine correctly, which I was very proud of! :)

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LuhvKiller's avatar

only thing i can tink of would be photobucket or somethin like that. Not sure about that one

Daethian's avatar

I have used lulu.com as well and was pretty happy with it, other than the price but I think its competitive so its not really knock against them.

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