Has anyone ordered the photo books from Shutterfly?

nov04LIbride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 11:00 AM

Has anyone ordered the photo books from Shutterfly?

I am wondering about the quality. TIA!

Jan05Bride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 11:02 AM

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My sister-in-law made one up from my nephew to his 'nonni' for Christmas. It was soo cute, with all of these personalized sayings and the pictures were really good. It was a great gift and the quality was good.

nov04LIbride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 11:03 AM

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Posted by Jan05Bride

My sister-in-law made one up from my nephew to his 'nonni' for Christmas. It was soo cute, with all of these personalized sayings and the pictures were really good. It was a great gift and the quality was good.

Thanks! They are on sale this week so I was going to make my grandparents wedding albums.

Jan05Bride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 11:07 AM

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Posted by nov04LIbride
Thanks! They are on sale this week so I was going to make my grandparents wedding albums.

You inspired me to do my Honeymoon album today at lunch!

jms100303 Posted: Feb 11, 2005 11:34 AM

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I ordered one for my mom for Christmas and she loved it! I then ordered myself a copy and am making one for my hubby for his 30th bday.

no stress bride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 11:49 AM

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I made my honeymoon book through ofoto and it came out great!!

Jen_n_Dale Posted: Feb 11, 2005 01:14 PM

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It is awesome. I got one that my friend made me for my wedding. They are really cute!

KimberlyBride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 01:34 PM

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I have ordered many photo books from shutterfly. They are awesome quality. They are much better then ofoto books in my opinion.

cjb88 Posted: Feb 11, 2005 02:11 PM

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what about mypublisher... have any of you used them?? any ideas on quality vs. shutterfly??

nov04LIbride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 02:19 PM

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Posted by cjb88

what about mypublisher... have any of you used them?? any ideas on quality vs. shutterfly??

Julie (julz33) did one on mypublisher to display at her wedding--it was very good quality. Shutterfly is much cheaper--$13 for the soft cover--so I was going to try it first.

Jan05Bride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 02:23 PM

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I just tried to do it at lunch ... Lesson to learn ... they only give you a max of 20 pages, so make sure you divide the number of pictures you have by the number of pages ... I had over 200 pictures and I was laying them out 1-4 per page (#'s don;t add up!) sooooo I wasted my lunch hour because I didn't lay it our correctly (didn't fully pay attention) so now I have to start over AGAIN maybe this weekend. I can be such an idiot sometimes!

nov04LIbride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 02:24 PM

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Posted by Jan05Bride

I just tried to do it at lunch ... Lesson to learn ... they only give you a max of 20 pages, so make sure you divide the number of pictures you have by the number of pages ... I had over 200 pictures and I was laying them out 1-4 per page (#'s don;t add up!) sooooo I wasted my lunch hour because I didn't lay it our correctly (didn't fully pay attention) so now I have to start over AGAIN maybe this weekend. I can be such an idiot sometimes!

Oh you can add pages for .50 a page! Do the insert page icon.

Jan05Bride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 02:26 PM

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Posted by nov04LIbride

Posted by Jan05Bride

I just tried to do it at lunch ... Lesson to learn ... they only give you a max of 20 pages, so make sure you divide the number of pictures you have by the number of pages ... I had over 200 pictures and I was laying them out 1-4 per page (#'s don;t add up!) sooooo I wasted my lunch hour because I didn't lay it our correctly (didn't fully pay attention) so now I have to start over AGAIN maybe this weekend. I can be such an idiot sometimes!

Oh you can add pages for .50 a page! Do the insert page icon.

ahhhhh, well my hours up, I'll try this weekend! Thanks!

nov04LIbride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 02:27 PM

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Posted by Jan05Bride
ahhhhh, well my hours up, I'll try this weekend! Thanks!

You can also save the project so you don't have to start from scratch. I've been working on one for the past 2 weeks.

Jan05Bride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 02:30 PM

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Posted by nov04LIbride

Posted by Jan05Bride
ahhhhh, well my hours up, I'll try this weekend! Thanks!

You can also save the project so you don't have to start from scratch. I've been working on one for the past 2 weeks.

That part I did, so I'm happy. I actually have two going at the same time with the same group of pictures. That way I can play with the layout a little without ruining my origigal. So i will either 'add' pages or I will 'reformat'.

We'll see.

KimberlyBride Posted: Feb 11, 2005 03:00 PM

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Shutterfly was 100 times nicer then my publisher. Mypublisher has some small but visible lines in the photos. My friend is a photo buff and tried making books from all 3 to see which was one the best and shutterfly won by a land slide. The paper is nicer and better looking. I have 4 shutterfly books and love them. Also made some for Christmas presents for family and they loved it too. Their calendars are also cute!

marymoon Posted: Feb 11, 2005 03:47 PM

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Shutterfly is great. My cousin made a whole album of her amatuer pics from my other cousin's wedding and it was SUCh a gorgeous keepsake!

halloweenbride04 Posted: Feb 11, 2005 04:03 PM

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I did the soft cover books for each of our parents of pics of us growing up and gave them to them at our RD, there was not a dry eye. I did the soft covers again for my BM's for Christmas and hardcovers for my grandparents. I think they all came out fabulous! The pics that were lesser quality were because of my scanner.