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Photo book services can turn your holiday happy snaps into a professional-looking, coffee-table-quality printed book, conveniently mailed to your home. Our photobook buying guide explains the different options and features available and offers some handy tips on how to use photobook services.
Our test compares a 'standard' hardcover book approximately A4 size using default options for paper type and number of pages, cover type and binding. It also covers the downloadable photo book software for Windows and Mac computers and online (web-based) software where applicable. Our expert testers give each photo book service a thorough workout to help find the ones that:
Our interactive comparison tool helps you find the services that offer high-definition printing, connectivity with popular image sharing sites including Instagram, Facebook and Flickr, and softcover or hardcover options. Our Recommended list will help you see quickly which services come out on top.
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Price as of June 2017 for a standard hardcover book
enter value/s in increments of 1 between 26.95 and 114.9
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Whether a Mac (OS X, macOS) book creation program is available for download
Whether a Windows book creation program is available for download
Total quality score is made up of image quality (50%), paper quality (30%), and cover quality (20%)
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Made up of the following assessments: sign-up and set-up process (10%), adding pictures (5%), assistance (10%), autoflow process (5%), editing tool's general layout (10%), page layouts (15%), container movement and re-sizing (15%), text placement (15%), preview function (10%), and the ordering process (5%)
Contributes 50% to total quality score.
Cover quality for hardcover books. Makes up (20%) of the total quality score.
Import pictures from Facebook
Import pictures from Flickr
Import pictures from Instagram
