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Looking to get a few photobooks made for Christmas presents this year, and really stuck on who to order through!

So many companies come up on a google search but I'm currently looking at CEWE via Jessops and Photobox as they seem to have some good discounts.

I'm budgeting max £40 per book.

Recommendations would be great and any reviews/thoughts!

Thanks in advance.
 
Aperture books
 
Used photo box very easy to use and excellent quality. Try and get as many full page pics as they will allow in the book, they look miles better than the smaller '4 on a page' pages.
 
Thanks Jim, they look very nice but a bit out of my price range this time!

Thanks for the tip Chris!
 
Hi used photobox countless times and the quality is very good. Their strong point is the speed of delivery - very fast. Ordered a book Thursday night and it arrived Monday. Website and upload process easy and no issues. Would def recommend.
 
I have a couple photobox books to order after I bought them on offer last month. The price was good, we'll see if delivery is fast and if they stand up to scrutiny. Let's hope it won't have magenta cast throughout
 
Update:

Decided to give Jessops CEWE a try as I had a £10 off voucher code to use. Ordered a 26 page photo hardcover large landscape (a4 paper size) on glossy paper, including delivery it cost just over £30.

In terms of designing and ordering the actual book it took me a few evenings; the thing I liked about the Jessops software was that I could save my book to the laptop and come back to it. There are plenty of pre-set layouts and backgrounds you can use to place your photos on the pages, which is very helpful. However, I decided to do a lot of it from scratch and then save my own layouts so they'll be there to use next time I order a book.

So the photobook arrived and i'm generally pleased with the quality of the photobook, the glossy paper feels thick and the photos look great on it - and this is just the standard glossy, not the photographic glossy that would of cost a bit more!

So everything was good until I noticed that on one of the last pages there is a big white mark on one of the photos so I've had to contact Jessops to get a reprint ordered. So after a quick phone call, I had to email some photos of the book over to prove what I am saying is true and now a reprint is on it's way.

The photobook is for my boyfriend for Christmas, it's of our first holiday together, so even though it's a bit annoying having to get another book sent out I can just keep the faulty book!

I will post again when I receive the reordered photobook, and see if the problem has been resolved - perhaps even stick a few photos of it up here.

I may give photobox a try next time to compare but i'm generally happy with Jessops CEWE photobook for the price I paid.

Hope this helps anyone who was thinking of giving CEWE a go :thumbs:
 
I've just received a 20 page photobook using the inbuilt iphoto software. I'm pretty pleased. Resolution is good. Quality is good and the layout seems to be a lot easier than others I tried. Took about half an hour to do as I let it decide the order of photos and just had to reposition a few of the portrait ones as those were slightly cropped. The other photobook builders I tried cropped images beyond recognition and couldn't handle the fact some of the photos were different resolution. The iphoto software just did it pretty much how I wanted straight away. 20 pages was £19.99. Each additional page is about 70p I think. It was the large photobook so around A4 size.
 
That's interesting feedback Holly, thank you :thumbs:

Dave
 
I was in Jessops last night. Their very biggest book with photo paper is simply stunning - well worth paying a little extra. I think I will order with them next time unless I go all the way to GraphiStudio :)
 
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