Photobooks are becoming more and more popular as a way to tell a
story with your photos, rather than just have them in an album.
Photobooks are often described as similar to scrapbooks, the main
difference being that the photobooks are actually printed, rather than
having clippings and photos glued or tacked to the page itself.
The
benefits of a photobook allows the creator to print a large number of
books at a much cheaper cost than building them all by hand as you would
with a scrapbook.
Photobooks have been very popular with
weddings, graduations, and babies as they can show and tell a story of
the subject from their birth and all of the way through their adulthood.
To
create your very own photobook, you first must have all of your photos
in a digital format. This means that for all of your loose photos, you
must have them scanned into a computer so that you can manipulate the
image digitally to fit the book. DVD Your Memories specializes in photo
scanning using the best quality flatbed scanners available today... and
we scan them all by hand!
Now, once your photos are digitized,
you'll need to find the photobook service you'd like to use. There are
now quite a few services, but I'll go over a couple of the more popular
photobook services.
Shutterfly
Shutterfly is an image
publishing service headquartered in Redwood City, CA. The company was
founded in 1999, and focuses on its primary product and service which is
photobooks. In addition to photobooks, they also can produce other
products including stationery, greeting cards and custom
smartphone/tablet cases.
Start by uploading your photos into your
own online gallery and use one of 270+ pre-existing template layouts
with more than 100 themes, or completely design your own creation!
Shutterfly is easy to use, and has great prices thanks to online coupons
and promotions year round. As for photobooks, Shutterfly offers 26
different sizes ranging from 7×5 to 12×12.
Mixbook
Mixbook
is a newer photobook service that offers greetings cards and calendars
in addition to their photobook line. One great thing about Mixbook is
that it has an import utility that can import your photos from a variety
of online sources such as Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa and more. This
allows you to save a ton of time by not having to manually upload each
and every photo individually.
