More photo books
I found a few more links to UK photo book printers on this page so I had a look at them this evening. Not good news…
- Treasure Your Pics: Same software as Yophoto so the same limitations.
- My Publisher: Only allows built-in page layouts, little customisation available. Won't allow certain photos to be manually placed (without any explanation of why) but the auto-build feature will place them.
- Taste Photo Book: More or less the same as My Photo Book from the previous list, appears to be the same software and the same company operating under a different brand.
- Foto Book: Same software as Yophoto but with the addition of a grid for aligning objects. Would have been a great feature if objects would snap to the grid but without that it's not much better than guessing. The software locked up on my desktop PC as it seemed to be eternally accessing the hard drive, presumably scanning directories for pictures, and of course there are a lot of them. I installed it on my laptop and it worked fine.
After getting the Foto Book software to work on my laptop I went back and tried the Bonusprint software from the previous list and it did work, but (getting repetitive here) it's the same as the Yophoto software but with the addition of the useless non-snapping grid.
The quest continues…
about 4 years ago
Thanks for looking at the entry in my livejournal blog about photo books. I never actually finished it off.
I discovered that that software fell into four types as shown on a later entry http://akg-darktea.livejournal.com/31262.html I decided that type 2 was the best software, it is more powerful than I had originally though when you go into the advanced mode, however there are annoyances such as no spell check, no snap to grid and no align. I have used two of the companies and selected them on the types of book they had available and postage times. I used Album Factory to produce a soft back book for a friend with pictures of her hen party (they were the only people who did soft back) and I used Fotobook for a hard back book for my mother of my wedding pictures because they offered pictures spanning two pages and would deliver in time for Christmas.
I would use either of them again, but you may want to consider Bob’s book which has recently had a very good write up in travel magazine where it was selected as the best site. I haven’t had a recent to check it out yet.