Try blurb.com. They now have a printing plant in Europe, so shipping
is reasonable and the quality is very good.
Nathan
On 23-jan-2008, at 23:54, Jon Mitchell wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I know this, or similar subject, has been raised in the past so I hope
> you don't mind me re-asking.
>
> I am trying to put together a Photo Book. Nothing fancy, nothing too
> special. Basically, it seemed like a good idea and easier than
> getting
> my digital shots printed, buying an album, sticking them in, etc..
>
> So first port of call was Photobox.co.uk - as that's where I get
> prints
> done and they seem good. They do a "PhotoBook" option and it seems
> OK.
> So I go to the website and try to design/build a Photobook from the
> images I have uploaded. Major problem is that it is VERY limited on
> page layout. Image sizes are I think 6"x4.5" (not 6"x4" anyway), or
> square. So all the shots I have that are 6"x4" are getting cropped by
> the program they use. I want to tell them to not crop, but just
> give it
> a transparent border, if you see what I mean. Can I do this ? Can I
> ****. And when I want 3x Portrait shots in a line on a page, there
> isn't an option for this. Sure, I can have 3x square shots, with a
> whole load of empty page underneath and above - I just can't have 3x
> portrait shots. And as for any other combination portrait /
> landscape /
> square shots - forget it.
>
> So, next stop - switch to my other computer, a mac (yes, for all those
> who argue which is better I have both 'cos I just can't decide :-P ).
> iPhoto should do it, or so I thought. iPhoto has a few nice
> features -
> and it does the first bit I want which is to allow me to fit the full
> picture in without cropping it (even if I have cropped the image to
> some
> weird non-standard size). However, iPhoto seems even more limited
> than
> PhotoBox with page layouts. And only one style has black pages -
> and it
> is EXTREMELY limited in layout. So I gave it a go anyway, and it is
> more promising than Photobox - but Apple seems to have taken a leaf
> out
> of MicroSoft's book here - it keeps thinking it knows better than I do
> what I want it to do. Drag a particular shape or size of photo
> into one
> of the boxes and it re-arranges the whole page. Even more frustrating
> is that although it seems capable of re-arranging the entire page
> layout
> randomly, according to it's "I know best" mentality, there is no
> way for
> me to move the photos around and create my own layout design.
>
> FFS, it can't be this hard. I know what I want, where I want it.
> All I
> want to do is click and drag. We put a man on the f***ing moon nearly
> 40 years ago (apparently - I wasn't there !), so I really can't see
> how
> this is beyond the wit of man.
>
> Anyone got any alternative suggestions ? Where to go ? Websites ? I
> am using iPhoto 5 - is this much improved on later versions ? I don't
> have enough time in my life to deal with this cr*p - I just want a
> computer program that does what I want without me spending hours
> fighting the damn thing.
>
> All help gratefully received, before I go more insane.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
>
>
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