Photobook advice please!

How were the images shot by your tog? Jpeg or Raw?

FWIW, although I have never used them, I have heard some good things about Bobbooks....

hth

Peter

I have purchased a Bobs Books photo book before although not for clients. It was quite good. Obviously doesn't compare to the standards of professional companies but it does the job and far better then the likes of Vistaprint. If you are happy to spend a few ££'s please avoid Vistaprint, you will only be disappointed in the result.

If the images you receive justify a few hundred being spent perhaps you could commission a photographer to build you a real bespoke/fine art album?

I've also heard good things about Bob Books. Also, I was shooting for a fellow photographer friend of mine on Saturday, and her couple had designed a guest photo book with images from their pre wedding shoot from Photobox. I was really surprised with how good it looked bearing in mind where it came from!

I use Photobox quite often and I'm never disappointed! They are of very high quality and as a bonus seem to run really good offers most months. Also if you sign up as a new customer you'll have free prints to enjoy!

I'd highly recommend them.

I'd agree, getting one person to put your photographs together will ensure there is some synergy. If your photos are from different sources it might be worth commissioning someone to process them and tie them all together, so they all have the same style/feel if that makes sense. You might be a processing whizz yourself though and can do all that quite happily, if so, apologies!

One other plus about asking a pro to do this though would be access to the really lovely higher end albums. A lot of these album suppliers (like Graphistudio - they're beautiful) only deal with photographers directly. If you've got a wedding fayre near you any time soon you'll be able to see examples of these there no doubt, so can see if it's the sort of thing you're after.

I love fiddling with ablum layouts! Enjoy putting it all together

The Photobox premium album £99 is really good value.

I wasn't impressed by Bob Books at Focus 2013 tbh, not for the money.

Our photographers recommended Bobs books to do it ourselves and we were super happy with our album

Photoworld are awesome, just bought my first book from them of my holiday pics! You download the software and design the book yourself, add text etc and then they print it for you. You can add your own backgrounds, design the cover, choose how many pages, and you just drag and drop the images in. Would say it's a great option for anyone who's pretty confident with using IT software

I have never used online photobooks but I know people who used Blurb and were very happy with the result...

Andrea de Gabriel

Thanks everyone, some great advice! The pictures are from quite a few different people, so we'll see what we have to include when we have them all back, and go from there.

Thank you x

Milk books!

they're made in new zealand so I'm not sure what shipping would cost but you can put the book together yourself, as lay flat pages, linen cover linen slip or presentation box (depending on type of book) I totally going to do mine through Milk

Another vote for Milk books. Postage isn't too bad - about £14 for the album. Used it for my sister's album and very likely to use it for mine too.