My two younger brothers heard about a photo book service called SmileBooks. One of them logged on to the site to see what it was all about and it seemed like a great gift idea. With Mother’s Day just around the corner, we decided to give the service a shot. As it turns out, SmileBooks' owner is CeWe Color, the leading photo-finishing company in the world and their service and products are amazing!
We had a lot of fun making our Smilebooks photo book and it really brought out our creative side. We gathered and scanned old photos from just about every event that was important to our family. We found pictures from family vacations, high school proms, graduation ceremonies, holidays, birthdays and old yearbook photos. We also included a great panoramic photo from 1992 of the three of us on Halloween and created three custom pages that we dedicated to our dog. The two portraits that came out the best were the professional photos taken on our parent’s wedding day and one of our annual family Christmas portraits.
When my brothers and I started editing the pages in our photo book, we realized how much freedom we had to customize every page. The SmileBooks software gave us the option of resizing, moving and rotating all of the images we collected. We were also able to add borders, crop images and stretch some of the larger photos across two whole pages, which served perfectly as backgrounds for some of our smaller images. Other photos worked great with just a simple black or white background that SmileBooks provided. We then went ahead and added text and captions throughout the entire book and created our own cover, which really brought the whole thing to life.
SmileBooks.com offers free software, which was easy to use. We were able to download the software in a matter of minutes and we were creating our own personalized photo book in no time. The software comes with easy-to-follow directions and lets you drop photos into place instantly without having to upload them. You can save your photo book onto your PC and work on it anywhere you go.
There are seven different sizes to choose from and we decided to go with SmileBooks' deluxe photo book, 12 inches by 12. The prices for 26 page photo books start at just $9.95 and vary depending on page size, paper choice and cover type. Fortunately SmileBooks allows you to add pages if necessary which we did because we could not include every special moment in just 26 pages.
When we completed our photo book, SmileBooks.com said it would take about 15 working days to receive it, but it actually came in just 8 days. We were truly impressed with the way the photo book came out. The high quality photo paper was flawless and the book could not have looked any more professional. Our entire experience with SmileBooks.com was amazing and we know our mother will be forever grateful for it.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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