January 2009

Do you remember a few months back when Inkubook – a new print on demand photo book site, was offering free books as an introductory offer? well I got myself one – it arrived before christmas and is just gorgeous. The whole family was impressed.

The size I ordered was the biggest – square pages – the same size as those scrap booking papers you can buy – in fact it would be perfect for digital scrapbookers. There are plenty of other sizes and you can have as many or as few pages as you like. I chose a plain background – I feel that sets off the photos and lets them speak for themselves, but there is a whole range of colored and patterned backgrounds you can use if you like.

Basically what you do is download their free software onto your computer – upload all your photos to their site – and away you go. The photos do take a while to upload as you are uploading hi-res images for print quality. I set a whole bunch to upload overnight and it worked fine. The software was pretty easy to use – you choose from a bunch of different styles – backgrounds and layouts – add extra pages as you need them – drag and drop the photos from a gallery where you want them. There is an option for adding text, but I didn’t get to that and as I said I like to keep it simple.

I believe that since I last used inkubook they have made a bunch of improvements and now have calendar options too … I would use them again.

Here is my end result – pretty happy with it.

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