Photobook Recommendation?

[mllebamako]

I want to get a photobook made for my SO for Christmas and I was hoping that someone has already done this and could give me a good website recommendation? You know the ones where you design it online with all your pictures and maybe some text and then they print it into a pretty book?
(I know I could just google "photobook" , but I want to know which sites have nice quality books and what not.)

Anyone done this before? What website did you use?

[snow_girl]

You don't have a mac do you? I was going to say in iphoto they are great stuff. Kodak used to have but I don't know if that part of them has also gone out of business. Shutterfly has good deals a lot as well.

[Kristin91]

I used Picaboo to make mine in the past... it's great because you can customize what kind of cover (hard or soft) you want too

[Verojoon]

I've used both shutterfly and blurb.

Here is the photobook I made with Blurb:

[Belle]

I've used Picaboo and just the cvs one online as well. Both are pretty easy to use and customize.

[stephanieaz]

I made one for a Christmas present using Shutterfly. It arrived in the mail yesterday and it's fantastic. I couldn't be more happy with the way it turned out. It was easy to do.

[garnet]

If you can swing the slightly higher cost, go to Mpix. I've done a side by side of both prints and photo books from there and shutterfly, and honestly I wont even use free prints from shutterfly again, the quality has been consistently awful. I know that isn't a popular opinion, because the prices are great, and they often have free or super low cost deals, but just speaking for me, mpix > all others. I got really obsessive about quality because I'm a digital scrapbooker, and I got prints, or if I could afford it, a small book, just to see the best way to go and it was very clear.

[Verojoon]

If you can swing the slightly higher cost, go to Mpix. I've done a side by side of both prints and photo books from there and shutterfly, and honestly I wont even use free prints from shutterfly again, the quality has been consistently awful. I know that isn't a popular opinion, because the prices are great, and they often have free or super low cost deals, but just speaking for me, mpix > all others. I got really obsessive about quality because I'm a digital scrapbooker, and I got prints, or if I could afford it, a small book, just to see the best way to go and it was very clear.

MPIX makes awesome prints! I used them once, and I won't again because not only were the prices so much higher, but I had to pay duty to Canada... but if I was American and I only had the higher prices to worry about, I would use it for any project I really care about the quality!

Also I used to be really big into digital scrapbooking... actually, I was a designer..

[mllebamako]

Thanks for all the replies! I'm going to look into it.

(and yes, snow_girl, I have a Mac. So I'll look into doing it with iphoto too!)

[snow_girl]

Thanks for all the replies! I'm going to look into it.

(and yes, snow_girl, I have a Mac. So I'll look into doing it with iphoto too!)

Yea do it! They are amazing quality! I make a calender every year for my mom and the photo books are awesome