Comments on: Activity #313: Make a fancy photo book

By: Maryellen

Maryellen — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:38:47 +0000

I absolutely love Picaboo for photobooks. I was a designer in my former life and love adobe products and this uses an adobe based program. It’s a little pricey, but they go on sale and the freedom and creativity is AWESOME. They are working out a few things they forgot to put in there… like photo editing options, but having no constraints for were you put your pics or text is worth having to re-size in a different program (until they update their program). Check it out.

By: RookieMom Heather

RookieMom Heather — Sat, 29 May 2010 22:49:34 +0000

Ha ha, Kim. I think you’re right.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:37:19 +0000

I think you might mean blurb (www.blurb.com), which is AMAZING. I just printed a 260-page book of photos and LOVE it.

By: PreppyMountainMomma

PreppyMountainMomma — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:01:51 +0000

Another great photo book website is blub (www.blub.com). It is super easy to download their software (for mac or pc) and using the software is even simpler!
You can drag and drop photos or link to any of your photo libraries on your computer.
Best of all you can create your own page layouts (with or without captions). So you are not tied to a prescribed number of photos per page. Either use their templates or make your own.
Happy Booking:)

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:28:34 +0000

Hey Heather great info, but there still some good service providers missing from your list. Anyways your post has been useful there some names I was not aware.

By: Sandee

Sandee — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:37:45 +0000

I received a photo book for a gift and I loved it.

By: phyllis

phyllis — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:27:54 +0000

i love these photo books. as i upload the albums, i choose the ones that will go in the photo book, the site (shutterfly is what i use) saves my book as long as i want…and then i wait til they are running a sale to buy the book. this is the only way i make photo albums now, and i love it.

plus i feel very safe — if heaven forbid something happened to my photo albums, i could go back to shutterfly and re-purchase them, since they’re saved. a little doomsday of me, but hey…who hasn’t thought about what you would snatch from your house in a fire/flood/emergency…

By: eli

eli — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:26:56 +0000

Have you tried these guys?
http://www.mycustomstory.com/
I haven’t, but I’d really like to make our baby a board book of family around the world. Maybe for Christmas…

By: tracey

tracey — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:41:09 +0000

I recently made one at Snapfish and it looks gorgeous! Photo books always a hit!

By: Rhode Island Mama

Rhode Island Mama — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:21:55 +0000

My husband and I did this when TJ was first born. We kept notes throughout the pregnancy and interspersed them with photos of me and my growing belly. The last page is a photo of TJ on his first day in the world.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:31:39 +0000

These are really nice. My MIL has gotten us two of these from Ofoto (so far! she’s a bit camera and picture obsessed).
Thanks for the reminder about this idea — I think I’m gonna have to make one of the Little Man as a present for her next visit (Labor Day — woohoo! heh).