photo books

[lilpol]

Hi it s my sons 21st middle of may. problem is i m not a dash hand on computers. But would lve to make a photo book, H AS anybody done one? What are they like? And do they end up costing the earth?

I use Snapfish to make photoboos of holiday photos and they have always worked really well. prices are good.

The Tescos books are also supposed to be very good.

Can i just ask how long does it take for you to put a bk together. Are there loads of diff backgrounds and can you add remarks to certain photos

Photobox is great for photo books and they're very easy to create.
Plus you get 40 free prints too.

We have done 2 lovely ones for holidays on snapfish. THey cost £20 ish (at sale time). We are always picking them up and going through the photos.

THe trick is to upload a bunch of photos to the site first as that is time consuming.

THen pick a book type and start playing about. You don't pay anything until you've decided your book is complete.

If you are finding that your book is totalling up too many ££ as you go, just choose preset layouts which put more photos on a page instead.

(do it!do it! do it!)

Never looked at photo box, but will do.sorry to ask again but do they end up costing da earth,

On snapfish, we have ignored the fancy schmancy preset backgrounds and gone for black which looks ultra professional.

You can add text on certain layouts, which we do in white.

The layout are the key thing IMO, spend time getting those to look right.

(do it!do it! do it!)

Yes, easy to do. Upload lots of photos in advance. Takes an evening to put together. Various page layouts and backgrounds to choose from, and you can add text.

Thanks catinthehat, great advice, ohh i really really want to make one of these books as know son will love it. Need to get technically minded, as i m ashamed to say don t know how to download/upload photos. need to phone a friend i think,

AH thanks to you too hulababy. Thankyou so much . i m gonna learn.Hope it looks good. i ll take your advice with background and pre set

From Photobox you can create a small book for 11.99 see here

have spent several evenings with DH putting one together, Hulababy is a fast worker! I have really enjoyed the process of doing ours so spent ages.

My first one probably took longer I guess. More recent ones I have done with 6y DD so not spent as long on them.

I have done a few on Photobox. They have been fantastic quality. For about 26 pages it is around £24.

I've used Photobox and been pleased with books. Also made photobook about daddy for 4yr old dd using different company, slightly different as they are "reading books". Here's a link click here

I've done a few of these using Snapfish and have been really pleased with the results.

I would say that 25 pages would cost c£30 but the trick is to do it when there's a special offer on. If you're using a site for the first time you'll probably be able to find a discount code somewhere.

Using pre-set layouts you can have more than one photo on a page so it works out way cheaper than buying an album and having to pay for prints to stick in it.

You can put in captions, or even just a page of text. I think the black and white layouts look best, but you can usually choose from a few themed or coloured layouts. The layouts vary in size of photo as well, so you can choose to have a single photo blown up to fill a whole page, or up to about 10 little ones.

They make fab presents and really aren't that hard to do. Spend some time thinking about the photos you want to use, and what order you want to use them in. That will save you a lot of hassle when it comes to making up the book.

well just read all your messages of ideas, thanks a lot. Rang a friend who is willing to help, so this weekend need to get all photos on a disc, about 40ish i think then will start next week. Rareing to go now , so looking forward to putting it together

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