Photo Books

[uhoh7]

As a computer consultant I've helped make many photo books with my clients and used most of the big choices, like iphoto, etc.

While the books and layouts are OK, the actual print rez is not great.

Has anyone found a good reliable hi-rez photobook maker online?

I'd like to make a book where the prints were on really nice photo paper.

TY
Charlie

 

[majid]

Most photobooks are printed on HP Indigo digital presses, which were originally designed to print customized junk mail. I use Blurb, who are OK, but definitely not at the level of a print on a Fuji Frontier. You may want to try AdoramaPix, who make books using real photo paper, but the binding is not very book-like.

 

[Godfrey]

You can get very good results out of Blurb, but it takes time and money. I did three press experiments in designing my last book before a) deciding on a paper, and b) doing the finish corrections to make the best possible quality.

I've also seen some excellent work out of lulu.com and Moleskine as well .. But I bet it takes the same kind of effort.

G

 

[hrzlvn]

Try Richard photo lab.

 

[dasuess]

You can get very good results out of Blurb, but it takes time and money. I did three press experiments in designing my last book before a) deciding on a paper, and b) doing the finish corrections to make the best possible quality.
G

I totally agree... You need to follow Blurb's guidelines, especially with regard to the color space of the images. Make sure they are sRGB or they will be converted and you won't like the results. This also applies to B+W images.

I like their new BookWrite tool, but ultimate control is only achieved using PDF to book with something like Adobe InDesign. I got pretty good results using a custom book layout in Apple Aperture, then generating a PDF to upload to Blurb.