![]() For a hard cover 8×8 book with 26 pages (there is no option for 20 pages), you’ll pay $42. These are definitely my favorite photo books, but you pay the quality. This album is 36 pages long, and over an inch thick!īecause they use real photo paper, the photos are every bit as nice as ones you would print for your wall, and best of all: lay flat pages!! One photo can span two pages, which gives you some amazing options for layouts. This makes for very nice super-thick paper. Each page is actually two pieces of photo paper glued back-to-back. Rather than using printer paper, they use real photo paper. The real awesomeness of Adoramapix, though, is the paper. The covers are very nice, thicker cardboard, and have a nice sheen to them. I love adoramapix! It is what I used to make our wedding album and albums for our moms. Last of the consumer-level albums is Adoramapix. I will probably use it for most of my future vacation albums, as long as I’m not feeling too cheap. Overall thought: I like blurb when I want a bit more professional feeling paper. Maybe I’ll have to think of an excuse to make one of those in the future! I think it would be especially cute to do a very thick small-sized book, like a 200 page 7×7. The downside of a softcover book is that the book won’t really stay open on its own, but I still think it is a cute/different type of album and I liked it. The quality of the photos is pretty good. The album ended up being about 30 pages, and check out how much thicker it is than the shutterfly book above. You can also upgrade to 100 lb premium paper (which I have not tried) or 140 lb ProLine paper, which I what I ordered for our honeymoon album. The standard paper is 80 lb weight, which again will feel about like a nice magazine page. One huge benefit of blurb is that you can choose to upgrade your paper. I ordered soft cover just to try something different, and I actually really liked it! I made blurb books for my honeymoon album, and for a wedding album (combining both mine and my brother’s weddings) for my grandma. The downside is I’ve never seen a group on for them, so you’ll probably end up paying that price. Next up, blurb! Blurb is not much more expensive than snapfish/shutterfly at $31.95 for a 20 page hardcover standard landscape (8×10) book with standard paper. Although there are groupons for these OFTEN, and the companies run great sales as well. The cost for a 20 page hardcover 8×8 book from Snapfish is $28.99, and from Shutterfly is $29.99. In the future I’ll use either of these companies for books I don’t want to invest much money in. Probably closer to 1/4-1/3 inch.īut the quality of the photos themselves is pretty good. This has 20 pages and it takes up well under half an inch. The cover is pretty, but you can see the pages are pretty thin/unimpressive. Mostly I chose shutterfly because I had a groupon and I wanted something cheap. I made this book for our engagement photos, and used it as our guest book at the wedding. You can customize the covers, as you can with most photo books. It feels like a page from a nice magazine. Shutterfly doesn’t say what weight they use, but it feels like Snapfish which uses 100lb weight. These are available in both hard and soft cover in a variety of sizes. But I can tell you that snapfish and shutterfly were basically the same in my opinion. Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of my snapfish book, as that was my Vegas one which I lost. Let’s start with snapfish and shutterfly. Which doesn’t really make me an expert, but does give me some experience with a variety of companies that might be helpful to others deciding on their first (or tenth!) photo book. In all, I think I’ve made nine books in the last 4 years, and ordered one more from a photographer. ![]() I made my first photo book back in 2008 after a trip to Vegas to celebrate my finishing law school/the bar, but somehow I’ve lost that book (super sad). It is way easier and (I think) more modern than actual scrapbooking, and I don’t know about you, but I will never sit and look at just a plain stack of photos. I read a blog post yesterday that reviewed ’s photo books, and it got me thinking about all the photo books I have ordered.įirst– I love making photos into printed books.
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