I have made Shutterfly and Snapfish books with pleasing results. I found the quality of the Snapfish book (binding as well as photo quality) was a little better than the Shutterfly book in recent years. I have been read good things about Blurb photo books (http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001520.php) as well and if I can get past the idea of uploading to yet another photo site I may use them them for our wedding photos.
What's your pleasure and why...
View Poll Results: What's your favorite photobook publisher?
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Thread: Who makes the best Photobooks?
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10-21-2009 #1
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Who makes the best Photobooks?
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10-21-2009 #2
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My friend Danielle likes MyPublisher for hers.
3 years ago, Slate.com rated the various services out there and decided that Shutterfly was the best then.
For the article & methodology, the link's here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2143039/
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10-21-2009 #3
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MyPublisher
This will be the 5th year we've used MyPublisher for our annual photobooks....we really like them and love the quality.
Mom to a DD (8/02) and a DS (6/05)
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10-21-2009 #4
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Ran into my first snag with MyPublisher...it can not (automatically) organize my photos by date.
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10-21-2009 #5
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I use MyPublisher also. I've found that you can do some "pre-organization" of your photos. Order them before you upload them, and they'll be in dated order. I tend to name mine with the date first, so it's not a huge issue. Though, I don't typically organize the photo books by date, so it hasn't mattered to me.
DD - 2005
DS - 2008
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10-21-2009 #6
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Also, MyPublisher. I'm on my fourth year of using them. Do other companies upload by date? I never thought twice about doing it manually ...
~ Laura
One in 2004 and the other one in 2008
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10-21-2009 #7
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I make photo books every year for my Dd's so I like to order chronologically for them. Shutterfly (and Snapfish I believe) have a tool where you can rearrange (automatically) by date taken or day uploaded. Very nice feature. I'll just have to start over with MyPublisher..ugh.
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10-21-2009 #8
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I do chronological books too, but I tend to just upload a month of two of photos (that I've edited and tagged in Picasa at a time). I do those pages, then move on.
Originally Posted by infomama
Just an FYI, there are normally a ton of coupon codes floating around for MyPublisher.
JenMom to a DD (8/02) and a DS (6/05)
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10-21-2009 #9
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I've never ordered photobooks from anybody else but MyPublisher and I was very pleased with quality of the books. It took me forever to put the photobook together though. I blame it my perfectionism
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Mom to DS born on Thanksgiving 2003
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10-22-2009 #10
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How cool - that is my method as well. Though I am a few months behind. Originally Posted by jenmcadams
~ Laura
One in 2004 and the other one in 2008
