Cheap Mini Photo Books

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Rich Silfver

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If you have a need/want to produce a very simple small photo book for very little money this may be a good option: Kodak Mini Book

Basically 10 photos in a small book for $6.99.

Possible uses:
*Show people on the street that you're asking to pose for you some samples of your photography

* Quick and cheap book to hand out to friends and relatives after some event (wedding, party, dinner, trip).

More and more online print sites offer this nowadays and I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who have used on of them.
 
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Rich Silfver said:
If you have a need/want to produce a very simple small photo book for very little money this may be a good option: Kodak Mini Book

Basically 10 photos in a small book for $6.99.

Possible uses:
*Show people on the street that you're asking to pose for you some samples of your photography

* Quick and cheap book to hand out to friends and relatives after some event (wedding, party, dinner, trip).


Disclaimer: I haven't even tried this myself - but it looks cheap and easy.


Would be interested in hearing from others that may have tried this or other options for something similar.
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Rich,

I've done the standard 'photo book' at Kodak Gallery. I used it when our next-door neighbors had a birthday party. Used my DSLR and uploaded the photos that night. Arranged them online, added captions, chose a cover and layout, and had them print it and mail it to me. Presented it three days later as a remembrance.

What a reaction! They loved it! They still keep it on their coffee-table and show it to everyone - of course they hand out my business card when they do.

This is the shiz - I really mean it. The photos came out great, everybody wanted a copy.

The only real problem - no good way to to add in a markup - since anyone can go to Kodakgallery.com and see what you paid.

However - it is most cool. I can't imagine that the mini book looks different in any major way besides being smaller.

I'm sorry I never mentioned it - I figured no one would be interested.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Thanks for the great tip guys. I annually produce photo books at MyPublisher.com but was looking for something smaller and cheaper for those one shot occassions to give as a gift to friends. The photo books I have made in the past have always been extremely well received.
 
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Ricardo, since mypublisher is one of the four options that I found (listed above) I'm curious about what you thought about the quality of the prints/book you've ordered from them?

I think I will entertain myself tonight by putting together a small 10 photo book from one of the four to see what it will look like.
 
Rich Silfver said:
I was also geeky enough to order a set of stamps with one of my own photos from
photostamps.com 🙂
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I've looked at those and like the idea but I haven't liked how any of my current photos looked at that small size. It's in the back of my head so I will eventually shoot something that will work better.
I'm not going to use a head shot of my-self; I think the post office still has rules about mailing obscenity 😀
Thanks for the links, Rich! Gonna check out the book options.
Rob
 
I love the mypublisher.com photo books but that is in regards to the overall quality and the tremendous impression they make upon the person who receives it. The photo quality are not like I one would get in National Geographic but they are not poor quality either.

Their free software is easy to use and limits you to 4 different overall styles. Within each style they have different multi-photo page layouts. This works very well for me as I get an overall cohesive style and then manipulate my photos per page with simple captions. Options for a single photo per page or multiples. My process is usually to grab all the photos I want for the book first and then edit down as necessary to get it to flow right. I do year end books for the grandparents and they go over huge!.

The overall binding is first rate in my opinion and the hard bound cover is very nice. I have only used the middle size option, not the smallest or the very large supersized one.

Upon upload it is clear they are doing some recompressing of images prior to upload. I use a full size 6megapixel image for each photo in the book. I am not sure what the final dpi is but the final image quality is not like you would get from the local walgreens for a single photograph. It has to be less than 300dpi.

I have not compared these books to any other service. I would love to see books from the different printers side by side. The B&W photos I have in my books have never had any kind of color cast to them.

I guess I am a satisfied customer. One money saving tip is that around the Holidays (xmas - new year) you pay full price. Throughout the year they constantly run 50% off specials and 2 for 1 deals. They may have a new customer sign up deal as well. I did that twice, one account from me and one from my wife.
 
I have done a few in Iphoto (Apple) and they are superb. All the images were color though, I'll have to try some BW. They aren't "cheap" money wise but they are hard bound covers and nicely finished and packaged.

Todd
 
Ordered a book from photoworks. Will be interesting to see what it looks like when it gets here.
 
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