Even without design it's pricey but the added flexibility of being able to lay in text made it worth it for me. Somewhat pricey but you make your choice about whether it's worth it to have the design service. Again, design and regular services are separate, so I couldn't get a quote on the phone from customer service. ![]() I was hoping for a lower price to print a second one. Cost of second book looks to be the same as first book. I received a shipping notice by mail but only knew that it would take 6-10 days to arrive. There was no way to track the shipping of my order that I could find. The book arrived in a box without tape and just hinged flaps so it could have been opened by anyone. (They say there is a replacement process which I haven't tried yet) The book arrived tightly shrink-wrapped which dinged one corner. The online status tracker didn't work for me I assume because I was being tracked separately by design. If you call the customer service number, they will not be able to tell you anything about your order. The design service and the regular service are completely separate. It can take about 2 days to get your next revision to look at once you submit comments to the designers. + They periodically have specials so you can save some money. + Comment feature to designers is super easy to use. (If you design yourself, you are stuck with the number of pages you pick from the beginning.) + Design service will let you add extra pages if you need them mid process. (That is, they took the time to read what I'd labelled) + Design service actually figured out where to lay text nearly correctly on the first time because I had labeled my photos to correspond. + Design service allows you to send them a huge batch of photos and they will pick the best quality if you don't have time. + Design service even made some text edits for me when I spotted my own typos. + Design service allowed me to send a Word file of text that they manually interspersed with photos. Using the Smilebooks design service was a bit of process if you are picky and want to go back an forth with the designers (as I did 4 times) with revisions, but in the end, the book was really lovely and they did make all the changes I requested. I'd originally figured I would use iPhoto but soon discovered the limitations do not allow for inserting long blocks of text. I was looking for a service that would help me design a book and also allow me to insert pages of text along with my photos. They offer coupons through facebook and twitter, too. If you don't have a coupon and want to order a photobook, do a google search for "smilebooks coupon" and see if you can get one that way. ![]() I signed up for their newsletter and get emails about new coupons 1 to 2 times per month. I'll have to review that aspect once I finish making my album and I see it in person.Īlso, I am learning never to order a photobook from them without some type of coupon code. I'm excited about their new silver halide photo paper and true lay-flat binding (which picaboo does have) for my wedding album. They offer various sizes for photobooks, and will soon be offering online-only software so various people around the world can collaborate on the same photobook. They even offer some free backgrounds and clip art if you are in need of them. They have creative image masks that crops an image into many fun shapes, or fades the edges, or creates a frame. You can even zoom in on background photos and adjust the portion of the picture that shows up as the background (which picaboo did not offer). Use images as backgrounds, or any other image file on your computer. Place images and text ANYWHERE, at any angle, and text in any color. With smilebooks, the layouts are fully customizable. Picaboo came close, but their prices are higher and quality is lower. And none of the others had the level of customization available through the smilebooks software. I tried them all - Kodak, snapfish, picaboo, mypublisher, walgreens, shutterfly. Smilebooks photobooks software is the best photo album software out on the market today.
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