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Lisa Carroll

Lisa Carroll

Lisa Carroll
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If you have your layouts printed as books, who do you use? And do you have to do anything different to the files before you upload for books?
 
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I've had a few printed through iPhoto. I absolutely love them (no 12x12 sizes though, sad day). I have had a few of the large size books printed with dust jackets that make for super nice gifts but i have also done a few of the wire bound ones. I faked out iPhoto and after designing a calendar for my best friend i put it in the 5x7 wire bound book and now she has a desktop calendar. I was hoping she would write in it and use it, but she likes it to much she wants to keep it forever.
 
I've had 3 done through shutterfly and am about to order my 4th, love them!
 
I too have only used Shutterfly, and it is pretty easy and they turn out great. I don't do anything to them, but when I create my LO's I always keep things that I wouldn't want cut off 1/4" away from the edges!
 
i have been using a website for printing pictures and i have been very happy with it, they also offer photobooks printing but i haven't tried yet. Actually, i am looking for 8x8 templates as they do not offer any templates for the pages. They have a lot of coupons regularly and i actually have one for 8x8 books. Do any of you know of a place that offers 8x8 templates??
The website is Artscow.com, the prints i got from them are very good and they have good customer service.
i ordered one book from shutterfly and it turned out very nice too!!

PS : If anybody is interested in ordering from that website, please let me refer so i can get free prints!! thanks!!
 
sabfountain said:
i have been using a website for printing pictures and i have been very happy with it, they also offer photobooks printing but i haven't tried yet. Actually, i am looking for 8x8 templates as they do not offer any templates for the pages. They have a lot of coupons regularly and i actually have one for 8x8 books. Do any of you know of a place that offers 8x8 templates??
The website is Artscow.com, the prints i got from them are very good and they have good customer service.
i ordered one book from shutterfly and it turned out very nice too!!

PS : If anybody is interested in ordering from that website, please let me refer so i can get free prints!! thanks!!
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I will have to check out that site. I haven't seen any 8x8 templates, but you could always take a 12x12 one and resize it to 8x8.
 
I've used Artscow many times and have been happy with them as well. I've heard some not-so great reviews, but I haven't had any trouble. I've also used Shutterfly and was happy. The one thing I like with Artscow over Shutterfly is that the bindings are stitched on the Artscow books rather than glued. My kids love to look at the books I print, so durability is important to me.

I wrote about Artscow on my blog.
 
I've only used Shutterfly. I use an action by Wendyzine to prep my layouts for 8x8 books.
 
sabfountain said:
i am looking for 8x8 templates as they do not offer any templates for the pages. They have a lot of coupons regularly and i actually have one for 8x8 books. Do any of you know of a place that offers 8x8 templates??
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I scrap in 12 x 12 and then I resize my layouts to 8 x 8 for printing, if that helps :)
 
I've used shutterfly & Artscow. I've never been overly thrilled with either. To me getting an 8x8 printed on photopaper looks a lot better. But other than that its good. No problems with either of the books. Artscow gives a lot of free coupons too i dont think i've ever paid full price for anything and all my books have been free. I also got some free mousepads. I should take a pic of mine to show you I am in love with my mousepad :)
 
hey girls winkflash is having a flatrate book sale until feb 10th. You get 100 12 x 12 for 26.99. Pretty good and shipping isn't bad, 9 dollars to here.
 
Heather, thanks for the info. Do you have to resize your layouts?

mom2twoangels said:
hey girls winkflash is having a flatrate book sale until feb 10th. You get 100 12 x 12 for 26.99. Pretty good and shipping isn't bad, 9 dollars to here.
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renee, the two 440 page books i've had done are 8x10 one portrait, one landscape.. but they 've started doing 7x7 and i think i'm going to try a 100 pager in that size to see if it's too small...they also have 12x12... but i still think that's TOO big!
-J

renee82 said:
Jacque, what size do you print your book?
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Wow, that is a great deal Heather. Thanks for sharing. I just got my first Shutterfly book in the mail and I really like it. I can definitely see me buying more of these in the future. I love that it takes up so much less space than the traditional albums.
 
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