A week and a half ago I posted about me making a companion piece to the South Carolina Post Office book by doing one with the Oregon Post Offices. I used my old favorite, Shutterfly, for this, when I had laid everything out, I was going to have an 85-page book for $216. While steep, I was fine with that. I ran through every page again looking for obvious mistakes and didn’t find anything. The next day I went back in, and whatever promo they were doing had expired, and now the book would be $317. Whoa, let me think about this.
Somewhere in the intervening 10 days, I was picking up the Arizona bicycle image I had framed. And I mentioned that I need a photo of mine printed to fit in a 11’x17′ frame to complement it. The woman that did the framing said I could get it done at a place called Bay Photo that is online.
While I was on their website, I discovered that they make photobooks too. You could do it online, but they had an actual program you could download and use off-line. I liked using it right off the bat, it did several things you couldn’t do with Shutterfly. One, it is nice to be able to fill the whole monitor screen when working with it. And two, I can bold just a portion of the caption text. Right now, after just a couple of days, I’m already 2/3rds of the way thru redoing the book. It should come to around $235 if the page count is the same. I think this isgoing to be one I buy from.