![]() ![]() #MYPUBLISHER REVIEWS PLUS#In the past, I might have shot half a dozen rolls of film ($5 each plus $12 processing & printing at a local lab) which is $100 or so before buying album pages. Another 2-page spread was 2 3x3 arrays of shots of our daughter doing cannonballs in the pool - none of them individually an award winning shot, but 18 of them tells the story of how much fun she had jumping into the pool ! Then plenty of 1 & 2 picture pages to get that average down to 3. one fun 2-page spread I did from our recent NJ vacation album had a 3x3 array of pictures of my daughter playing mini golf all on the same hole on the left page right page had a photo of her sinking the putt with the caption "a hole in 10 !" (Actually, it was a 2-pic page the other "picture" was a scanned image of our score card). #MYPUBLISHER REVIEWS FULL#I average around 3 pictures per page (mix of everything from single page full bleed to many-pic arrays). MyPublishers large book is 15x11.5 (a bit more real estate, but not much) and they charge $2.99 per page after 20. Shutterfly's large book is 12x12 and after the first 20 pages, you pay $1.49 per page. Between MyPublisher and Shutterfly, prices are reasonably close, until you get to the largest size. thought about trying larger sizes, but they wouldn't fit on a bookshelf too easily. Shutterfly offers printed covers (not dust jackets, actual printed covers which would be kind of neat) on smaller and larger sizes. I was impressed enough with My Publisher to print more with them. I contaced customer service via email and they sent me a credit for a reprint. There was some dried glue on one page that you can see when the light hits the page right. Images really jump off the page, though, and are very clean - nice, smooth skies compared to either of the others, but particularly compared to blurb. The paper feels a bit heavier than the other two. But inside, the prints were very impressive. Printing on the dust jacket was fine, if slightly washed out compared to the same print inside the book. It doesn't hold a fold, so wants to slide off the book (Blurbs folded tightly around the cover). The dust jacket is very glossy and shows finger prints. I read complaints about the thickness of the paper, but it was fine no thinner than Shutterfly that I could tell. The dust jacket is a plus - makes it easy to see what the book is from the spine. Even casual observers like my wife and her friends weren't impressed. Dust jacket was beautiful but printed pages were grainy and even "streaky" or "banded". I read that the printed pages were nice but that the pictures on the jacket weren't so great. I did some research and people seem to like and. I wanted to try a couple other options, despite being generally satisfied with Shutterfly. ![]() so any time I want to order anything, I feel that I should wait for the deal of the day to roll around to the product I want to order, else I'm getting ripped off :) #MYPUBLISHER REVIEWS FREE#xx% off this product or that, free shipping for 3 days. One thing that always bugged me about Shutterfly is that they always have some sort of sale going on. And the printed pages are very enjoyable to look at. Pages are a bit thin and can get folds if you don't flip pages carefully, but that's true of many books of photos. One downside is that there's nothing on the spine to let you know which book is which on a bookshelf. The books I ordered have a "window" in the front cover that lets you see through to a photo. Binding is great cover materials are nice. The first few I ordered were all from Shutterfly. And you can trivially type in some text that gets printed as captions to make it easy to remember details (and fun for people looking at them). Then I discovered photo books :) You can get then in soft cover, hard cover, varying sizes, cool layouts for each page for a variety of quantities of pictures (an array of small pics, a full bleed pic, etc) and themes for fun books like a summer vacation. But that was a royal pain which is why we fell behind. We were already way behind on getting prints into albums - years earlier, I was frustrated enough with trying to find the right number of horizontal & vertical pictures for each page that we started adhering pictures to 8x10 card stock to arrange pages how we wanted (all archival stuff from Light Impressions of course). A couple years ago, I pretty much gave up on 4圆 prints and the family album. ![]()
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