Best Photo Book available online
If there is any photographer out there reading this blog by accident, I’d be interested in feedback concerning photo books if you have ordered any. There is now a profusion of companies doing photo books of what seems like coffee table book quality with at least 170g paper. If you have any experience with them, I’d be extremely interested if there has been any things like banding, color cast, saturation or anything showing up.
It seems like most companies rely on the same printer for hardcover books (that is, the HP 5000 Indigo Press).
Photo book companies I can think of: Blurb, SnapFish, Album Digital, MyPublisher
In France: Photoweb (endorsed by Amazon.fr), Photoways (does even T-Shirts and stuff)
Update: My HP source pointed me as well to Amazon that ordered recently a couple of HP Indigo Press to install in its fulfillment centers and produce “full-color books-on-demand as well as color covers for black and white books”.
…a few more days and I can tell you how Apple did
A friend of mine did a photo book, too. I can ask him what company he used. I remember he was impressed with the photo quality but the overall book quality was a bit disappointing. Will find out for you…
Comment by Torsten Curdt — December 27, 2006 @ 1:15 pm
I used QOOP (associated with Flickr) once and all I can say is: stay away from them. Print quality was VERY bad.
Comment by Ugo Cei — December 27, 2006 @ 5:06 pm
You might try iMemoryBook. I have used iMemoryBook for several projects and have been thrilled with the quality, but I am not the person to have an objective opinion–I am an employee:) We use the HP 5000 Indigo Press as well, but all our binding are double-fan adhesive and we guarantee our quality.
I suppose what sets iMemoryBook 2.0 (released in BETA Nov 15, 2006) apart, is the collaboration effect. It is an online application, which means that the whole family can participate in creating a memory book. Just this morning my to be Brother-in-law and I were comparing iPhoto (on my mac) and iMemoryBook. We decided that iMemoryBook (other than some beta bugs) pretty much blows iPhoto out of the water.
http://imemorybook.com/memory-book
Comment by Jeffrey Harmon — December 29, 2006 @ 1:33 am
A friend of mine directed me to this post; I have authored 25 coffee table book and 26 marine awareness guides – including “Essential Guide to Digital Underwater Photography” – i have also consult for a few hi- quality book – how can I help? Michael
Comment by Michael — January 10, 2007 @ 2:20 am
I did apple and the pictures were too grainy. Wal-Mart had better pictures.
Thinking of trying out Blurb or Shutterfly.
Comment by Christina — January 1, 2008 @ 11:47 pm