Wow great review video! From the few pages you showed in your video your Photobooks look amazing! I would love it if you started to show all the pages in your Photobook or maybe make a separate video flipping your all time favorite Photobooks. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for doing this! Since Apple stopped their manufacture of photo books I'm constantly on the hunt for one which will work for me. Your videos are so helpful.
Thank you. I saw a good deal for Picaboo, but the app crashed as soon I installed it on my phone (I never could open it) and I was ready to give up, but I will think of it again after your review. Thank you for the site tour 👍🏻
Great review. I commend you for all the knowledge and experience you have gained over the years on this topic. One comment you made particularly got my attention - silver halide.Surely, silver halide is on the decline not rise. I am wondering where you got your information from. Silver halide is particularly environmentally unfriendly and with only one major supplier (Fuji), prices have been increasing yearly. Please share your thoughts.
It is actually on the rise. A few year ago only a handful photo book companies used it and now almost every company offers a silver halide book option. The canon dreamlab printers are the only alternative that can compete with the quality. I don't think any print method will be particularly "green". The only thing photo book companies can do is use recycled papers but very few of them do.
I've ordered 4 Picaboo albums now . . . overall, I love them! Of those, two were classic w/lay-flat, and then I accidentally ordered my last one with Seamless Lay-flat (the other book was too long for either). I actually prefer the classic lay-flat. I think that some of the examples you gave of where it didn't work were just poor layout design. That said, I do like the ditch in the middle and use it as a design element. It looks better in real life than on video. Also, your example at 9:38 is terrible layout with the words going across the page. So if you know what the end will look like, you can easily design around this. The biggest problem I had with the expensive Seamless Lay-flat is that the paper is soooooo THICK. You didn't actually explain this. My book was the maximum -- 100 pages, and it's so thick and heavy. I joke about it being a child's board book and that I can take it in the bathtub. NOT what I wanted, and it was so much more expensive. The other problem I had with the Seamless Lay-flat is that the printed pictures definitely turned out darker than what I was seeing on screen (several different computer screens), whereas all my Classics turned out pretty much the same as what I saw on the screen. So, I'm off to make a mega-album of my last trip (I think I'm going to have to make it 2 albums--30 days of travel) and I'm going back to Classic with the hinged, and just work around the hinge and use it as a design-feature. Love your video, it's better than Picaboo's explanation. Thanks.
The seamless lay flat books are always thick. It's the binding process that's different. I purposely made the designs like that on the classic to show what you shouldn't use it for and what the differences between the two are.
Photo Book Guru Ah, that makes sense. I’ve watched a lot of your videos since I saw this and I now understand why the layflat books have such thick paper. Your videos are very helpful. Thanks!
Hi I’ve just come across your Chanel and it couldn’t be better timing I’m looking to print a few books as I have over 34,000 pictures of both my children but I haven’t got any hardly printed and I want to make a few books as it’s different viewing them On the screen to actually having them Printed, I’m looking for the best quality books that there are I would love landscape and layflat I want them to be roughly A4 size bigger is better I have really important milestones to print- their birth, first birthdays second birthday, photo shoots, holidays ect, is there a company that you could please kindly recommend as there’s so many company’s out there and I am Really struggling to decide, I want a beautiful sturdy book as both my babies are under 3 with beautiful print and paper quality I hope you can help. I am based in the uk if that makes any difference but I’m sure most companies ship to the uk.
Hi, if you want the best print quality, I would definitely do a silver halide book. In the UK your best option is SAAL, Bob Books or CEWE lay flat. They are all silver halide but SAAL has the most options regarding paper and cover. If you contact me through the blog, I will be able to provide you with some discount codes. thephotobookguru.com/contact/
Wow great review video! From the few pages you showed in your video your Photobooks look amazing! I would love it if you started to show all the pages in your Photobook or maybe make a separate video flipping your all time favorite Photobooks. Thank you so much for sharing!
I would, but since I mostly travel by myself, there are loads of pictures of just me, which might seem narcissistic haha
Thanks for doing this! Since Apple stopped their manufacture of photo books I'm constantly on the hunt for one which will work for me. Your videos are so helpful.
Thank you. I saw a good deal for Picaboo, but the app crashed as soon I installed it on my phone (I never could open it) and I was ready to give up, but I will think of it again after your review. Thank you for the site tour 👍🏻
Amazing Review! I have a Question, Can we pay more for delete the Picaboo logo at the end go the photobook?
Great review. I commend you for all the knowledge and experience you have gained over the years on this topic. One comment you made particularly got my attention - silver halide.Surely, silver halide is on the decline not rise. I am wondering where you got your information from. Silver halide is particularly environmentally unfriendly and with only one major supplier (Fuji), prices have been increasing yearly. Please share your thoughts.
It is actually on the rise. A few year ago only a handful photo book companies used it and now almost every company offers a silver halide book option. The canon dreamlab printers are the only alternative that can compete with the quality. I don't think any print method will be particularly "green". The only thing photo book companies can do is use recycled papers but very few of them do.
I've ordered 4 Picaboo albums now . . . overall, I love them! Of those, two were classic w/lay-flat, and then I accidentally ordered my last one with Seamless Lay-flat (the other book was too long for either). I actually prefer the classic lay-flat. I think that some of the examples you gave of where it didn't work were just poor layout design. That said, I do like the ditch in the middle and use it as a design element. It looks better in real life than on video. Also, your example at 9:38 is terrible layout with the words going across the page. So if you know what the end will look like, you can easily design around this. The biggest problem I had with the expensive Seamless Lay-flat is that the paper is soooooo THICK. You didn't actually explain this. My book was the maximum -- 100 pages, and it's so thick and heavy. I joke about it being a child's board book and that I can take it in the bathtub. NOT what I wanted, and it was so much more expensive. The other problem I had with the Seamless Lay-flat is that the printed pictures definitely turned out darker than what I was seeing on screen (several different computer screens), whereas all my Classics turned out pretty much the same as what I saw on the screen. So, I'm off to make a mega-album of my last trip (I think I'm going to have to make it 2 albums--30 days of travel) and I'm going back to Classic with the hinged, and just work around the hinge and use it as a design-feature. Love your video, it's better than Picaboo's explanation. Thanks.
The seamless lay flat books are always thick. It's the binding process that's different. I purposely made the designs like that on the classic to show what you shouldn't use it for and what the differences between the two are.
Photo Book Guru Ah, that makes sense. I’ve watched a lot of your videos since I saw this and I now understand why the layflat books have such thick paper. Your videos are very helpful. Thanks!
Hi I’ve just come across your Chanel and it couldn’t be better timing I’m looking to print a few books as I have over 34,000 pictures of both my children but I haven’t got any hardly printed and I want to make a few books as it’s different viewing them
On the screen to actually having them
Printed, I’m looking for the best quality books that there are I would love landscape and layflat I want them to be roughly A4 size bigger is better I have really important milestones to print- their birth, first birthdays second birthday, photo shoots, holidays ect, is there a company that you could please kindly recommend as there’s so many company’s out there and I am
Really struggling to decide, I want a beautiful sturdy book as both my babies are under 3 with beautiful print and paper quality I hope you can help. I am based in the uk if that makes any difference but I’m sure most companies ship to the uk.
Hi, if you want the best print quality, I would definitely do a silver halide book. In the UK your best option is SAAL, Bob Books or CEWE lay flat. They are all silver halide but SAAL has the most options regarding paper and cover. If you contact me through the blog, I will be able to provide you with some discount codes. thephotobookguru.com/contact/