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Apple iPhoto photo books: quick and easy to make
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With a couple of special occassions
coming up, I decided to finally try out the "make a book" option bundled with my iPhoto application. Users
have the option of choosing hard- or soft-bound books using one of several themes. You can arrange photos however you
like using different templates. You can even add text for a professional look.I chose to make medium-sized (8" x 6"), soft-bound books using the "contemporary template." Creating the books took no time at all, in fact the longest part was choosing the photos to include and how to arrange them. Once that was done, I simply dragged and dropped the photos from my iPhoto library onto the template, added in my text, and with "one-click ordering" turned on, I hit one button and my order was processing.
The books are 20 pages long, and the size that I chose cost $9.99 plus shipping. A regular photo album costs more. (Not to mention photo developing and printing.) I made my books on Sunday afternoon and got email notification this morning that they had been shipped. Not bad. I don't have time to sit and scrapbook, but I can squeeze out 15-20 minutes to choose some photos and have someone else do it for me.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
4-04-2006 @ 12:17PM
Lauren said...I've actually stopped even printing our photos and am instead making iPhoto books for our picture albums. I've done it before for special occasions (each of my kids has an iPhoto book documenting their first year, and we made another that has our pictures from a trip to Europe). This time I'm putting together two books that will cover all of 2005. It'll end up being more expensive than printing all the pictures out, but the quality is wonderful and I don't have to scrapbook them myself.
iPhoto books also make wonderful gifts. My husband surprised me with a mini book of baby pictures last year for Mother's Day. We gave one to each of our moms too.
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4-04-2006 @ 6:46PM
meg said...I don't have iPhoto, but I used kodakgallery.com (formerly ofoto.com) for a similiar serivce. shutterfly.com offers this as well. I was disappointed with the minibook quality from kodakgallery, so I might give shutterfly a try.
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4-05-2006 @ 9:22AM
Jamus said...I made one of these for my wife as an anniversary present and it came out very nice. The new ones supposedly have even better paper.
Mypublisher.com also has an iPhoto intergrated plugin to make similar books. Plus they have an app to work with PCs too. I think they have a 50% special right now if you try them out.
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4-23-2006 @ 2:20AM
Mervin said...I have made my own customized books for my son, family trips, and even for my dog using a tools on storiesfromtheheart.com You do not need any additional software installed on your computer, all the tools to write text and insert photos are all online. The incredible thing is the completely custom hardcover, it is not linen like many of the other books like mypublisher or Iphoto.
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12-09-2006 @ 11:56PM
Nicol said...Wanted to let you know that the DVD photo slide show is fantastic;(birthday,sweet sixteen,aniversary...) I love all the transitions and movement. My kids love it, too. They've already made me play [it] for them four times today and love pointing out [things that they recognize]. I know this will be a beautiful keepsake that we will treasure for years to come and I would be more than happy to act as a reference for our family photographer.
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