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I need one for a birthday present. Any recommendations?

TIA


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 9:49 am
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Ive used photobox several times - they do hardback and paperback - good quality and reasonable price


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 10:21 am
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My photobox one was very good, and they do your first one free (well they did when I joined) so you only pay the £3.99 postage


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 10:24 am
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Blurb is the only one I use now having been through a few other suplliers - not tried photobox though...


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 10:31 am
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Yophoto is quality. I do all my wedding albums though them


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 10:36 am
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photobox +1

we got a big wedding book from them, very nice quality and the online layout thingy was pretty good.

Dave


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 10:44 am
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Photobox were good for a fairly small holiday book, but I used Blurb for a 365 book and that was excellent.


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 10:50 am
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Blurb has very good software and excellent quality. We got our wedding albums done using that software.


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 11:14 am
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Just got this email from photobox, if it helps any;

Hi Jamie, here are 5 great reasons to create 1 of our award-winning Hardcover Photo Books – with 35% off
1. Choose from 5 different Hardcover Photo Book shapes and sizes
2. Show off between 26 and 200+ of your photos in 1 Book
3. Create an A4 Photo Book in just 2 minutes, the Instant Way
4. Personalise your Photo Book with 50+ themes & layouts
5. Share your Photo Book online for free & post to Facebook
Offer code: HCOVER Offer ends: Thursday 23rd June

But I would still go with Blurb.


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 11:57 am
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I'm quite keen on blurb too.

They handle full bleeds really well.


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 12:13 pm
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I started this thread a while ago

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/having-photos-made-in-to-a-book

in the end I used blurb. I'm happy enough with the image quality. It's not as good as a proper photo print, but the book quality is excellent.

Most importantly, I actually had enough control over the software to get what I wanted, save it on my own computer and work offline (instead of a browser based UI).

I made two major photo books, each with several hundred pages 😯

Hadcover, dust jacket and very nice. I've tried to show them off to a friend before, but he didn't realise that [i]I made this[/i].

edit - managed some cross-page full bleeds pretty well with a bit of photoshop, but I heard they improved the full-bleed feature.


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 12:16 pm
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I'm very happy with Blurb. Easy to set up and a reasonable quality finished product.


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 1:46 pm
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used Photobox a few times, very happy with the results, but not that cheap


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 2:03 pm
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+1 for Blurb - very professioal-looking books. Pricey, though 🙁


 
Posted : 18/06/2011 4:48 pm
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Has anyone used [url= http://www.bobbooks.co.uk/index.html ]Bob Books[/url]?

I'm looking to make a high quality photo book of my sister's wedding photos.

Or can anyone recommend a high quality but not ridiculously expensive site instead?


 
Posted : 15/07/2011 12:45 pm
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I've used YoPhoto for a good while now... excellent quality product for a very reasonable price. Their large square leather bound books make excellent wedding photobooks.

Paul


 
Posted : 15/07/2011 12:53 pm

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