![]() I followed their instructions on PDF creation and uploaded my PDF. ![]() I truly got so annoyed with their online interface I broke down and set up my own book layout in InDesign. But they are big supporters of letting you create your own layouts in whatever program you want, so that gives them bonus points in my book. SharedInk's layout capabilities online, I should note, are just horrid. A bit more pricey, but I hear the quality is a bit better. I could check the preview again and order. The next morning I had an e-mail from Chris again explaining the problem (stupid new version of iPhoto) and letting me know he'd fixed it for me. I e-mailed them to ask for help, because I couldn't find an answer on their help page. Just the front cover is going wonky after upload. I upload my iPhoto PDF and notice the cover is cropping really badly-completely off-in their preview. They don't support PDFs unless they've been created with iPhoto or Aperture, which I find a bit odd, but okay. That kind of service seriously impresses me, so I went back to give them another chance.īy now I'd figured a simpler route would be to upload an iPhoto PDF (remember I'm just doing a quick test book-if I go with them for the real thing, they do allow designing your own pages and uploading them as separate jpgs, which is certainly the route I'd choose for the final, pro product). So he upped my available space to 150MB at no charge to me. Screw that, I figured.Ībout an hour later, I get an e-mail from Chris Hickman, the pres, saying he noticed I had run out of space and he was sorry for that. I got a page saying I could purchase more space, but I balked at the price and closed out of the window. I tried first to upload my native images, but they only give you 50MB of storage space, and I used it all up after only uploading 16 photos. I got around this by choosing the full-page layout and then zooming out (with multiple mouse clicks) until I had the size I wanted, then I moved the image left or right on the page for placement. I had to "trick" the program a couple times to get the layout I wanted if it wasn't offered, which was usually a full-bleed image that didn't cover the entire page-perhaps a portrait image on a landscape page that I wanted centered or on one half or the other. Their program is okay to use, and I really liked its connection with SmugMug because it made my images super easy to find (I need to fix my folder nomenclature on my computer very badly). So after reading through this thread from the beginning and shopping around, I decided to print a few test runs before I need to create the actual client albums I have in my near future. I might have to try them though just to see, cause I just got my mac and haven't used all of it's cool features yet. but they get expensive (as does mypublisher) if you get too many pages. I too have heard great things about the iphoto books, and I think they actually get them printed at mypublisher, that's what I've heard from various sources. I second that smugmug should move to have books as an option as well as calendars and greeting cards. I would use again but will try others to establish a quality vs price baseline. With that said some of the smaller pictures with noise actually turned out great. This only occured on two of the large one picture/ page layouts. Only real negative is that a few pictures have a rolled appearance to them, where you can see faint vertical lines throughout the photo. ![]() There are a decent number of themes but not a lot of page background pattern or color options. It is a bit more than blurb ( I think I will try one of theirs next) with a 28 page book costing about $40 with shipping. Printed on what seems good quality paper and and cover is canvas type hardcover. The program is extremely simple to use- simply drag and drop from Iphoto galleries. No one else seems to have reviewed it yet so I will give you my review. Prices do not include shipping or taxes, if applicable.I decided to order a book off my mac pro in the Iphoto program. ![]() From this catalog, all proceeds from the sale of a book go directly to the artist. “Purchase Here” links to either the artist’s website, email, or direct purchase book site. Twenty Photobooks from 4th Annual Photobook Exhibition & Sale
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