Looking for 250 MNers to try a CEWE PHOTOBOOK– Digital camera (worth £169.99) prize draw for feedback! NOW CLOSED

[MichelleMumsnet]

We’re looking for 250 Mumsnetters to try CEWE’s new True Matte finish photo book.

Here’s what CEWE say, “The CEWE PHOTOBOOK is Europe’s no. 1 photo book and recently was rated the UK’s best. With more sizes and formats to choose from than any other, the CEWE PHOTOBOOK offers a solution for everyone for all occasions.
“With our easy-to-use free software, you can create your very own personal book capturing forever those precious moments. You design the book yourself adding text, maps, clip art and even video alongside your images.

“Just recently we have launched our brand new True Matte CEWE PHOTOBOOK. True Matte is unique in the photo book market and offers a luxurious finish to bring out the very best of your photos.

“Whether you want to chart the early years of your little ones or capture this summer’s fantastic family holiday, there is no better way to display and share your wonderful photographs. We are proud to provide the personal touch with a professional finish, giving you a True Matte CEWE PHOTOBOOK to treasure forever.”

This product test is open to all UK Mumsnetters.

Testers will receive a voucher to order a True Matte CEWE PHOTOBOOK, Large Landscape (consisting of up to 42 pages) (RRP from £37.99). Selected testers will have to use CEWE’s software to design their own photo book which they will then be able to order online.

Testers will be required to add feedback to a thread onsite as well as complete a short survey. Testers who complete both forms of feedback will be entered into a prize draw to win a Nikon Coolpix S5300 Digital Camera (RRP £169.99).

If you’re interested please sign up here.

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

If truth be told if I'd have been paying I would have given up. It almost brought me to tears it was that long winded and complicated.

I've just checked and I've been selected too. Will get onto this later on...

Just ordered mine and found it fairly straightforward. I could had faffed about with it for ages but used the assistant and I liked the suggested layout. Looking forward to seeing the finished article so I can write a full review

Doing mine on Saturday, the one I usually use takes two hours at least so will be interested in this and its difficulty!

made mine v quickly so fingers crossed it is ok

Mine's ordered: did the process manually and found it pretty straightforward: I've done quite a few in the past with similar editors and found it easy enough to use this one. Look forward to seeing the result when I get back from holidays

Book now ordered. Total cost was £54 inc postage and price paid was £0. Didn't take too long either. Have made a book for children I look after with pics if activities and places we have been. Didn't put any text in though as thought kids could use stickers to narrate the book.

Just wish it had been a week later as have family holiday next week and would have loved to have done a book for that!

Where's the feedback thread? Mine took 50 minutes thank god and I paid another 25 quid as I couldn't work out how to go back and delete the extra pages.

I couldn't do mine at home for some obscure reason so did it at work today, officially in my lunch hour but really it took half the afternoon up!

I have high hopes for it as I spent ages choosing pics of my girls from when they were born to now and they are 21 and 17. It will be lovely to keep and to look at......when they can afford to leave home. So when they are about 30

Just ordered mine. It took 3 hours but will hopefully be worth it!

Mine was dispatched last night so might have it by mon or tues. Cant wait to see it. Though did make a mistake on the front and left a pic on I thought I'd taken off. Ah well im sure it'll be ok.

All my photos are on ipad, will it not work on ipad or will it be ok as long as I do it through browser and not app?

I hated that! I got extremely annoyed and frustrated with it. I wanted to swap the photos around and it wouldn't let me. If I had been paying I would have given up.

I have made a photobook online before - can't remember which company - and it seemed much more straight forward than this one.

Hi Ticket, I tried to do it on my ipad but it wouldn't work, even when I wasn't using the app and just went on to the website in the usual way. I had to do it on my desktop at work. Someone may have managed it and hopefully they will be along soon to help you out

Thanks. I suppose I will have to save the photos to Dropbox or something so I can access them from the laptop. Nightmare!

It took around 2 hours to do, but that was mainly being picky about which pictures I wanted to use! Didn't use the assistant thingy - it was very straight-forward, and the code worked just fine so it cost nothing. Excited to receive it and see the book!

mine came this morning im really pleased with it its good quality and the finish is nice. the recipient will love. its a good product especially as a gift but i would not have paid £48 for it outright as im sure there are cheaper options out there

I'm having to admit defeat over this.

We are a technologically challenged family! Only really use iPads and iPhones on a daily basis. And I hadn't appreciated when I signed up that I would need to do it in a desktop/laptop.

We did attempt to download the software onto DHs work laptop, but the security settings (nhs laptop) mean it can't be downloaded.

Finally our ancient desktop was not up to the job.

Happy to pass on my voucher code if anyone else is able to participate.

Still bloody working on mine. I'm not using the assistant but the stupid thing changes my layout the second I add a picture so it's a huge back and forth faff. Luckily I worked out how to undo instead of deleting the whole thing and starting again everytime I mess up.

how do you undo?? i really needed to do that

Did mine yesterday. Was relatively easy but downloading it was a bit of a pain. My anti virus didn't like it one bit and I had to override it. Did anyone else have that problem?

I can't get the software to download!

just spend time creating mine but the voucher code did not work - well i did go 6 mins past midnight so that may explain it . I've saved it just in case they may extend the deadline again

Photo book arrived today, excellent quality, colours lovely, however four pictures missing from middle of book, when we come to the final stage it did say that there was issues with these pages, which we could not put right, as the software wouldn't let us! Very frustrating as we had to get it uploaded that evening. Also software wouldn't let us put words on the spine. Glad I did this trial, has cost me though as We couldn't fit all our photos in! I'm still not sure about the matt finish, only time will tell. As this going to be one well looked at book. I do wonder if the gloss would of been better and if the matt finish is more likely to get marked. The process was quite stressful due to glitches in the software, sometimes the words would not type into the box, had to leave that photo an go back to it, invariably when I went back I could then type again. Also it chose not to save a whole evenings work, hence why I cut it fine and was so close to closing date! Would I use and recommend the software again, now I've seen the quality, yes I probably would. However I really hope that cewe are going to alter the software, as when I start using it again and the issues haven't been rectified, I will be going elsewhere.

Still waiting on mine arriving, had an email saying it had been dispatched though so surely won't be long...