DIY photo album?

Is anyone planning to do this, or have you done it? If so, do you recommend an online vendor of leather albums, or just very pretty and elegant albums? The thought of spending $900 for an album through a photographer with 24 pictures in it makes me cringe when I'mgoing to get a CD with images and can get 8x10s printed at shutterfly for $2 each and assemble it on my own. I know it's our wedding and we should have a very nice momento, but our budget is rapidly depleting and I think I could do a good job if I knew of a good source for an album... thoughts? thanks ladies :)

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im doing this too and agree with you 100%... check out mypublisher.com

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Posted by cjb88

im doing this too and agree with you 100%... check out mypublisher.com

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Wow, that looks like a cool site

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we are going to do this we are going to test i out with some of our old pics

either at shutterfly or if u are a member to costco they do it too and u get 20% off!

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I plan on making my own albums. The technology today makes this EXTREMELY simple. If you are getting the CD with your images, just make sure they are Hi-Res.

list of helpful links

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Laurie,
Thanks! that link looks great

My only hesitation is that I've had a bad experience with Walmart's photo center. I am very techincally savvy, and when I uploaded my pictures online the print preview was just fine, but when I picked them up some of the heads were chopped off and the only explanation they could give me was that the quality of my images must have been 'too good -- images that are too big show up normal in the preview, but the computer prints them based on memory' .... does anyone have any insight on that?

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try your luck using shutter fly or ophoto - they are much better sites then walmart - or trying making a book with mypublisher (i have made one- it came out great)

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I know on Ofoto there is a separate box I have to check off if I want them to auto fit and crop my photos. Does Walmart do that? That may be the issue.

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If anyone's using mypublisher, I know I saw a coupon somewhere online for $50 off orders of $100+ recently...


Are the pages in a mypublisher album like a magazine or are they thicker like the albums we've been seeing at photographers?

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for those ladies using mypublisher, here's a coupon code...

Expires Oct 31, and it's 50% off $100+ or 25% off $50+ and the code is:

XMAS2550


hope this helps!

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sonicstef has a great album - she did it through http://www.digicraftonline.com/

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This is such a great idea! Thanks for posting the question, and thank you to the girls who responded.

I think I'm going to do this with a bunch of our vacation photos. I think it's a great way to display them, rather than in a plain old photo album.

Now I know how I'm spending my weekend

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We are having an engagement dinner in 2 weeks... I think I'll take the pictures from there and do a small mypublisher.com book and see how it comes out before I decide that I'm definitely going to forego the professional album...

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Posted by jenheartsrob

We are having an engagement dinner in 2 weeks... I think I'll take the pictures from there and do a small mypublisher.com book and see how it comes out before I decide that I'm definitely going to forego the professional album...

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good plan!

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also, have an appt with Silverfox on Monday and they said they offer en eBook style album for ~$100.... so I'll take a look at their quality and report back to you ladies :)