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Making a custom photo book

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    bluespurrs    August 7, 2009   South-central PA, USA, Earth

    http://www.picaboo.com/

     

    Just got done using this site's program to create a custom hard-cover wedding photo book. Anyone else try this and how did yours turn out?

     
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    Future Mrs. Martin    August 21, 2010   London Ontario Canada

    I am currently putting picaboo albums together for my BMs for their BM gifts!

    So I am interested as well!

     
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    bluespurrs    August 7, 2009   South-central PA, USA, Earth

    Well our wedding Picaboo book arrived. In general, it is a nice keepsake. It is definitely unique and with the May special offer, reasonably priced. However the photo quality left a little to be desired - as many of the book's pictures were fuzzy. I delibrately made a small book to check the quality of the finished product and now I think I will skip making a larger, more extensive version.

     
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    Mrs.KMM    July 17, 2010   Atlanta, GA (wedding in Indianapolis, IN)

    I used AdoramaPix to make a guest book out of our e-pics.  It came in this weekend and it looks AMAZING!  Hard cover, layflat pages (similar to flush mount but priced like a photobook), great picture quality - I highly recommend them!

    I used this review of about a dozen photobook companies before making mine.  http://www.digitalhomethoughts.com/news/show/97676/the-great-photo-book-round-up-review-who-makes-the-best-photo-books.html  It's really comprehensive and has options for a variety of pricepoints.  Well worth the read!

     
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    europomme    September 17, 2011  

    But with AdoramaPix, can you only put one picture per page?  I like the option of doing different layouts per page.. anyone know of good quality ones with that option?

     
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    Mrs.KMM    July 17, 2010   Atlanta, GA (wedding in Indianapolis, IN)

    You can put as many photos as you want on each page with AdoramaPix.  I did different layouts on every page of my 26 page book.  You just place the photos whereever you want and in whatever size you want (they have a really easy to use design program - this was my biggest worry when making my book but I thought it was really easy to use).

     
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    europomme    September 17, 2011  

    Wow thanks!!!!  I didnt know that!  :)

     
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    Mrs.KMM    July 17, 2010   Atlanta, GA (wedding in Indianapolis, IN)

    No problem - I'm going to try to take pictures of my album tonight and post them for the hive to see.  I was really impressed with the final product; Even with what I had read in the review I posted above, the photobook surpassed my expectations!

     
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    Danish_Student    July 31, 2010   Denmark

    I bought a boudoir album from Adorama Pix as well - I am really looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

     
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    bluespurrs    August 7, 2009   South-central PA, USA, Earth

    Oh I wish I would have researched first! I have to agree with the reviewer of the aforementioned site - Picaboo's software was easy to use but the print qualty is indeed poor. Maybe I will try again with Adorama Pix.

     
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    TaraLynn    August 27, 2010   Philadelphia, Pa

    I used Snapfish to make mine and it came out great! We made a large book using our engagement photos and are using it as our guest book. We figured if we had our guests write us a little note it would make a nice coffe table keepsake. I also made one for my sister in law for her shower and it came out amazing as well!

     
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    Mrs.KMM    July 17, 2010   Atlanta, GA (wedding in Indianapolis, IN)

    Here's a post I just made with pictures of my AdoramaPix photobook if anyone wants to see how it turned out!

    http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/my-awesome-adoramapix-photobook-lots-of-pics

     

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