iphoto book vs. shutterfly

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I'm trying to make a photo book for my mom for mother's day. While I know she'll love it either way, I really want to get the best print quality possible. I was planning on using Iphoto 6 but really like the way the leather covers look on the Shutterfly books (at least on the site, i've never seen one in real life) So basically which of these two has the best photo print quality? I'm also open to any other suggestions on sites which may offer better quality than the ones I mentioned.

Thanks in advance,
John
 
I haven't used iPhoto but gave up on shutterfly a couple years ago. You might consider fotki.com - more flexibility than any other service I have checked out. Don't know about print quality (haven't ordered prints from them yet), but they allow you to upload really huge files.

- john
 
My wife used Kodak Gallery for a memorial book and it was nice - I believe it uses the same printing plant as iPhoto submissions.

I've used winkflash for presentation books and like the quality. No option for leather covers at winkflash, not sure about Kodak...
 
I used iphoto for a few last year, great image quality and nice covers!

Todd
 
The iPhoto books are fine for consumer-middle quality projects. The printing is good, the templates are a little rigid. But there are so many possibilities, the hardest thing is figuring out which you want to use.

But if you haven't ordered it by now, I doubt you're gonna get it by Sunday....
 
Shutterfly's 12x12 books are excellent

the small books are good as well, but Shutterfly has stepped up the quality control and options... in fact I just made one for my mother for mom's day featuring her favorite flowers 🙂
 
jairy hunter said:
The iPhoto books are fine for consumer-middle quality projects. The printing is good, the templates are a little rigid. But there are so many possibilities, the hardest thing is figuring out which you want to use.

But if you haven't ordered it by now, I doubt you're gonna get it by Sunday....
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yeah I've already figured it'll get there late, but I had to wait for my brother to send me photos to put on as well, I'm sure she'll understand. Anyway I think I might try shutterfly, as aperture is really upsetting me right now. Sometimes it lets me rezise the images in the page box and sometimes it doesn't. All that for a ridiculously expensive program that seems to run incredibly slow on a brand new mac. Anyway it's driving me crazy so I guess I'll see what I can do with shutterfly.
 
Just to be clear, I don't mean the iPhoto books aren't good. They are fantastic. The ooooh factor definitely comes into play. I was highly impressed, and I've used them in budget packages for brides who can't afford my usual fee--I don't mark them up, just kinda throw it in with whatever else I'm offering.

Don't hold the Aperture thing against Macs!

The other thing, and I'm a Mac guy, is that it has a "Made on a Mac" emblem on the back cover. There might be a way to keep that from happening, just haven't really tried too hard yet.
 
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