photo books

[stever]

did a forum search on photo books and got garbage

my wife recently put together a book using shutterfly - print quality was good (and results good thanks to my wifes patience and editorial experitise), but the process was slow and not as flexible as desired

who offers professional quality software/photobooks?

[DarkPenguin]

did a forum search on photo books and got garbage

my wife recently put together a book using shutterfly - print quality was good (and results good thanks to my wifes patience and editorial experitise), but the process was slow and not as flexible as desired

who offers professional quality software/photobooks?

Asuka?

Otherwise you can try My Publisher (don't like the software) or Blurb and see if either is up to the task.  After that your next stop is probably the Chinese.

[NashvilleMike]

did a forum search on photo books and got garbage

my wife recently put together a book using shutterfly - print quality was good (and results good thanks to my wifes patience and editorial experitise), but the process was slow and not as flexible as desired

who offers professional quality software/photobooks?

I am in the beginning stages of a book myself, and like you, couldn't find a lot of really helpful info.

However, I did stumble across this link and plan to give a&i a shot sometime later in the year.

http://sharpernewyork.blogspot.com/2009/07...st-results.html

-m

[Rhossydd]

Blurb are as good as any of the cheaper Print on demand services. Their Booksmart software, is simple, but has a good range of options. To get the best from Blurb you should use their "PDF to book" route that allows you to use any DTP program like InDesign, Quark etc. Then you're only limited in layout by the page size and your own imagination.

Getting the best results from any PoD service will require a lot of care in image preparation.

[Edhopkins]

who offers professional quality software/photobooks?

We are getting ready to do a wedding book. I am planning to read this older LL thread carefully as my first step in investigating photo books:

http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index....ng+albums\

I really would like to hear from people who have had very good experiences recently. The LL link is about two years old and that can mean centuries old in the software world.

ed
Baltimore

[Mark D Segal]

did a forum search on photo books and got garbage

my wife recently put together a book using shutterfly - print quality was good (and results good thanks to my wifes patience and editorial experitise), but the process was slow and not as flexible as desired

who offers professional quality software/photobooks?

There has been an extensive recent discussion of this in this very Discussion Forum, which you have either not found or deemed to be garbage. If so, nothing more I can help you with except to recommend Pikto here in Toronto. They are expensive, but the quality is excellent. Old story.

[Edhopkins]

There has been an extensive recent discussion of this in this very Discussion Forum, which you have either not found or deemed to be garbage. If so, nothing more I can help you with except to recommend Pikto here in Toronto. They are expensive, but the quality is excellent. Old story.

Mark

I looked through this Forum--and all LL forums--very carefully and could only find one link on photobooks:

http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index....ng+albums\

This link was from 2007 and hence pretty old. I am going to mine it carefully.

However I did not find the "recent discussion" you referred to. I did look long and hard.

Can you point me to it?

thanks

ed
Baltimore

[Mark D Segal]

Mark

I looked through this Forum--and all LL forums--very carefully and could only find one link on photobooks:

http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index....ng+albums\

This link was from 2007 and hence pretty old. I am going to mine it carefully.

However I did not find the "recent discussion" you referred to. I did look long and hard.

Can you point me to it?

thanks

ed
Baltimore

Here you go: Photo books

[DarkPenguin]

Here you go: Photo books

There was a thread concurrent to that one on prepping images for a photo book...

[Jeremy Roussak]

Blurb are as good as any of the cheaper Print on demand services. Their Booksmart software, is simple, but has a good range of options. To get the best from Blurb you should use their "PDF to book" route that allows you to use any DTP program like InDesign, Quark etc. Then you're only limited in layout by the page size and your own imagination.

Getting the best results from any PoD service will require a lot of care in image preparation.

I've been pretty happy with Blurb. They're pleasant to deal with, which is worth something too.

Jeremy

[lawmailroomcom2]

Having used both Blurb and Pikto, I much prefer Blurb.  Pikto is incapable of getting anything right the first time.  I don't know this guy, but here's an interesting review of photo book services:

http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/97676/the-great-photo-book-round-up-review-who-makes-the-best-photo-books.html

[nemophoto]

I published a 160-page limited edition book on Ireland with Blurb. The first edition was done with their Booksmart software -- cludgy and slow. The second edition was from a PDF generated from InDesign -- far superior results in both reproduction and color (it was a 4-color B&W book). I can highly recommend Blurb, but it is not cheap for larger run books.

Nemo