I decided to use my merchandise credit on some photo books for our parent's gifts. The Groupon expires before our wedding so I figured I'd make albums out of our engagement photos. I've made an album using Shutterfly before and found it to be an easy process and the quality of the book when it came was excellent. I also fiddled around with Kodak during that time and decided I liked Shutterfly better because of the ability to place pictures freely and not abide by lay outs, or at least I think that's what I liked.
It's Betty Approved
My first surprise with Picaboo is that you have to download the software. Not a huge fan of that but I guess I have no choice. I've only just begun to play with it so my following observations could be due to ignorance. Some thing I don't like is that when you place a picture on the page it cuts it to fit in the box you placed it in. It will cut off most of your picture by making it fit into the box instead of resizing the photo to that box. If I like this picture enough to put it in an album wouldn't I want the whole thing? Why would I want them to crop the crap out of it. When you stretch the box out to fit your whole image I think you run the risk of going too far and stretching it bigger than it should be and therefore distorting it.
I need more time to feel it out and play with it because there could be some settings I'm unaware of. For instance, all of your uploaded pictures are on the bottom of the screen for you to pick from. Once you've used a picture you have the option to have it hidden. I don't want it to hide, I'd rather just have it checked as used. This way if I change my mind about a page later I can still see all my pictures.
If any one has any tips or is a Picaboo expert your suggestions are appreciated. Has any one else made photo books as a parent gift? Any favorite sites to do it on?
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