Comments on: Bookmaking reviews: SmileBooks part 1

By: colorblinded

colorblinded — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:15:22 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. I did not find there to be any issues with prints being over saturated and wrongly color balanced, but I do wonder whether profile issues might cause that. I don’t know whether they take steps to check and make sure things are looking right before printing.

Regardless, I just placed an order for a book through Black River Imaging, I’m hoping my second book with them is of the same quality as the first. They’re certainly more expensive than Smilebooks but you get what you pay for so it really depends on what you’re after.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:46:57 +0000

After reading rave reviews on smilebooks I ordered a book printed on photo paper and unfortunately was very, very disapointed with the quality – photo paper is just a heavy glossy card stock – my photos were over saturated and extremely yellow – had to just throw it away – I recommend you look elsewhere

By: Anita

Anita — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:53:58 +0000

I was getting ready to use BlackRiverImaging, but their software seemed too complicated. I’ve done books from Blurb, which I thought were fairly good, but at that time they didn’t have photo covers, which is what I want. Then I’ve used MPIX and liked the quality, but the crease in the cover wasn’t done as nicely as I want. Still hunting. I’ve been reading this review and was hoping for an ending. Surely the book has been delivered by now. How is the quality? I would love to know. I’m making two senior books right now (professionally) and am only charging $150, so some of the more well-known album companies such as Asuka are too expensive to make a profit. I hope I hear soon.

By: tcbp

tcbp — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:57:00 +0000

Thanks for your comments!

I have heard of Snapfish but never used them, I somewhat expected they might be similar to Shutterfly but I have no reason to think that.

Unfortunately things got messed up a bit and now I have to wait for tomorrow to get the book. This definitely isn’t a delay I wanted!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:24:37 +0000

I have actually heard of SmileBooks and made a book for my parents as a Christmas gift. The software was easy to use and I like the fact that it was not an online program. I created my book on a long flight I had to take for business. I found the book to be better quality that Snapfish (the only other place I have ordered a photo book from).

Can’t wait to see your book!