Making a Photo Book.. Who to use?

[v.t.]

I am making photo books of our Disney trip for Christmas gifts. I would like to do a large one for my parents and a smaller one for my brother's family. The Disney books are out of my price range. Any other suggestions?
TIA!!!

 

[wtrmlnlabs]

The cheapest place I have used and the quality is great, is artscow.com. It does take awhile to get them though, so order before the end of Nov, I'm pretty sure if you go on their site they have a set date for holiday delivery. Shutterfly has lots of good deals as the holiday approach, usually 30% off and free shipping is about the best, but never know what they will come up with. Again, great quality books. I've used Snapfish and Winkflash, Snapfish has limited options compared to artscow and shutterfly and Winkflash's quality is terrible as far as I'm concerned. The backgrounds colors bleed into my pictures and the site was very hard to use, I'd finish a page and save it each time, but still at the end the changes weren't saved, had to redo.... took days to make the book, very frustrating.

 

[cjnix29]

kodak gallery has a $15 off if you sign up right now. I'm in the process of making a gift for my mother in law. Also, if you wanted to do a calendar instead, vista print has a free calendar offer right now. I've done shutterfly and snapfish too, but I don't really like their photobooks. For those, I use creative memories, but they are pretty expensive, but so much nicer than anything else I've seen.

If I knew how to post pictures, I would show you all!

 

[The Iron Giant]

i'm interested too - bump

 

[tink576]

I fully recomend shutterfly! Their books turn out amazing! They are really good quality as well. I use them for all of my familys Disney photobooking

 

[dex08]

There's a DISer who is offering 40% off codes for KodakGallery.com

Here's the thread... PM her and she'll PM you back with a code. Can't beat that deal!

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2330916

 

[labdogs42]

I like Shutterfly.

 

[WeLuvDiznee]

I just made 2 using Photoworks,and they came out great!

 

[bratmomma]

I recently used Snapfish to make my MIL a photobook of our recent trip as a Christmas present and I was very happy with the results. It took 2 or 3 days to process but I got it the day after I got the notification that it had been sent.

 

[thebeesknees]

I was pretty pleased with Shutterfly when I ordered from them. I ordered 3 books from artscow on October 7 and still have not received them, so I will not recommend them. I e-mailed them about it yesterday and they told me to wait until Nov. 20 and then contact them again. Forget it - I'm going to dispute the charge with my credit card company.

 

[Alesia]

I used blurb.com and made an 80 page book for less than $45, including shipping. The quality was awesome, too!

 

[Kanda]

I didn't read all the suggestions, but I have 40% off codes for Kodak Gallery. Their photo books start at 19.99 I think. You can have a code to take 40% off your entire order. Let me know if you want one.

 

[AlternateEgo]

I made all three of my daughters Autograph books from Kodak Gallery. I paid $1.99 shipping each. They are so cute! If I had more of the $15 codes, I would totally make them to sell or trade.

 

[3boymthr]

I did a digital scrap book to make it more Disney like and then uploaded my scrapbook pages to snapfish. It came out great. I've also used Shuttefly and been very happy with their product.

Right now, if you have a mycokerewards account for 284 points or a disneymovierewards account for 600 points you can get a free basic 20 page photobook on snapfish or a $19.99 credit toward any other photobook. You can use up to four of the free book codes at a time. These codes can be combined with other discount codes; I was able to use the free code and a 25% off code .

 

[v.t.]

Thanks for all the great tips. I would love to see everyones' books, I know they are amazing! We did the photopass so I have some great pictures of all of us together, but I do not have any shots of just the hotel, parks, etc. Any suggestions where I might find some?

 

[labdogs42]

Thanks for all the great tips. I would love to see everyones' books, I know they are amazing! We did the photopass so I have some great pictures of all of us together, but I do not have any shots of just the hotel, parks, etc. Any suggestions where I might find some?

I have a lot of generic Disney pictures e.g. signs, attractions, fireworks, etc. -- see the link in my siggy for those. Check the scrapbooking and photography boards here on the DIS for other folks that have great shared photos, too (Mark Barbeiri's photos are awesome).

 

[ntikos]

I've been very happy with shutterfly.

 

[nunzia]

I did 2 Picaboo books, one for each of the grandkids we took to DLR in Sept. You have to download their software onto your computer, then upload the finished book. They have alot of options and online backgrounds, etc. You can also use your own photo for a background which I did several times. Now for the negatives. I have a pretty good and new computer, but I kept getting error messages for low memory, and the computer bogged down quite a bit while working on pages. Then, the shipping was high and they don't have any way (I asked their online help) to order 2 different books and have them in the same order to combine shipping so you have to pay full shipping twice. It was also difficult to get SR on them since you order from your downloaded software and not the site. I managed to get credit on one but not both.

 

[big_red_s]

I made an awsome 120 page, 320 pics, glossy hardcover coffe table book from www.blurb.com for $60 (including tax & shipping).

 

[kritter]

sign up for www.vistaprint.com you can get a lot free stuff!!