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• Acid free 100lb archival
quality 'Mohawk' paper
• Professional design themes
• Multiple page layouts
• Min-max pages: 20-150
• Hardbound cover or leather
or velvet padded cover
• Smaller books are paper
cover with cloth tape binding
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In revisiting Snapfish to update my review I was pleased to see they have improved its photo book templates, sizes and covers and offers more layouts and customization. Like most major online photo printing services, Snapfish allows you to create personalized photo books for your special memories, including special theme books for weddings, babies, travel and more with their user-friendly software. Snapfish is a good choice because they offer outstanding quality with lots of binding options and sizes, although they don't have as many themes and layout options as Shutterfly and Mixbook.
Still, Snapfish is a reliable choice and this review will show you won't be disappointed with the quality. You can make a nice book at a very good price by taking advantage of their many of sales and discounts. For instance, you'll save 25% when you order additional copies of the same book. You can get other current discounts here.
Photo Book Sizes and Cover Options
Hardcover photo books in three sizes:
- 8x8 with custom printed hardcover or basic hardcover with dust jacket
- 8x11 Personalized with custom printed hardcover or custom dust jacket over black linen hardcover, or leather or linen with die-cut window. Custom hardcover with photos and captions printed directly on the cover, spine, and back. With a dust jacket cover, you can add photos and captions to the front and back covers and inside flaps of the dust jacket.
- 12x12 with padded white or black leather or tan, red or blue velvet hardcover with vellum pages between the cover and book pages.
Soft cover photo books
- 5x7 and 8x8 paperback with sturdy soft cover and personalized cover
- 5x7 die-cut window on sturdy paper cover
- 2x3 mini books with paper cover
- 4x6 and 5x7 Flip Books - spiral bound
- Picture Me® books with durable, laminated paperboard available in 6 different stories featuring your child as the star.
Photo Book Prices
| Size | Flip Book | Soft cover | Hard cover | Dust Jacket Over Hard Cover | Padded Velvet Cover | Linen Hard Cover w/die-cut window | Leather Hard Cover2/ die-cut window |
| 2x3 | _ | $5.99 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| 4x6 | $4.99 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| 5x7 | $4.99 | $11.99*/$12.99 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| 8x8 | _ | $19.95 | $27.99 | $27.99 | _ | _ | _ |
| 8x11 | _ | _ | $29.99 | $29.99 | _ | $24.99 | $24.99 |
| 12x12 | _ | _ | $44.99 | _ | $44.99 | _ | $44.99 |
* Die-cut paper cover
Prices as of April 2011, based on a 20-page book. additional pages range from $.50 to $1.50 depending on cover and size. Max 150 pages. Shipping is extra.
Photo Book Paper
Photo Books are prints on acid free 100lb 'Mohawk' paper which is Green Seal certified, elemental chlorine free (ECF), ph buffered and lignin free.
Photo Book Styles, Templates, Backgrounds and Layouts
Snapfish offers over 55 photo and text layouts and more than 40 designs and locations. Photo book page templates and background themes include baby and kids, wedding, travel, seasonal, holidays such as Halloween, Christmas, pets, sports and more, plus vintage, patterns, stripes, dots and solids.
You can print a title and photos directly on the book's cover and print titles on the spine of hard cover books. You may customize your photo book with your own captions, and use different backgrounds for each page if desired. Captions and text may be added in a variety of fonts, sizes and colors. There is a choice of photo borders or you can choose to have none. Pictures can be arranged from 1 to up to 15 per page (depending on the photo book size and style selected) including full bleed and you can have a page with text only.
Photo Book Creation
Photo book creation is very fast and easy. Once you have uploaded your photos or imported them from your Snapfish album into the photo book work space, Snapfish will ask you if you want your photos automatically added to your photo book layout. If you say yes, the software will auto fill photos into a layout it determines to be best. You can always change the layout or number of photos on a particular page, or you can choose to lay out each page yourself.
You can pan and zoom, rotate, flip, remove red eye, and change tint directly from within a photo book page. In the editing mode you can change images to sepia tint, black and white, even blue, green or red tint. The software also lets you change themes, photo borders, and page backgrounds and layouts as you go if you change your mind. If you want to change the background of a particular page, just drag and drop it onto your page or apply that background to all with one click. You can even pick a background from a different theme and apply it to just one page by dragging and dropping.
Snapfish makes it so easy to create customized photo books, and they offer so many great discounts, I don't even bother making regular prints anymore. Photo books are the way to go.
Compare Snapfish with Other Photo Services
I have compiled a review chart comparing Snapfish's features with various other photo book services.
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