Tuesday 11 November 2014

SuperPhoto Photo Book

Many of you will have realised by now I take a lot of photographs. Everywhere I go if something catches my eye I take a photograph of it. Sometimes it makes an appearance on the blog and other times it is saved on a memory stick never to be viewed again. I expect many people have precious photographs that deserve to be looked and smiled at rather than being forgotten. With this in mind I was happy to put together a photo book for SuperPhoto.
I've never had a photobook made before so I have nothing to compare it to. As I was part of the testing team I can't comment on the speed of delivery as we had to wait for the systems to be finalised.
My photobook was the landscape 20cm x 15cm priced at £9.99. Standard shipping is £3.99. For this you get a glossy cover with full photograph and text, back cover photograph plus 24 inside pages. The book can be increased up to 150 pages with extra pages costing 65p each.
I used to do a lot of paper scrapbooking with photographs so I pleased at the wide choice of themes and layouts available. As I chose to document our day at Bamburgh beach I used a background similar to sand. There are stacks I could have picked. Also there are other little features such as drawing pins and photo corners.
I found my way round the site quite easily but I am used to using sites such as PicMonkey. If you haven't used such a site before it may baffle you a bit in terms of where all the features are. I don't deny it is a time consuming process but that's because you need to work how you want your photographs laid out and in what order. You can also add text to the pages but I knew if I started writing I would never finish the photobook. Thankfully you can save your work in progress and go back later to finish it off.
One thing I will say is that all my photographs were taken on a DSLR and on such a sunny day I was able to shoot on ISO 100. If you take your photographs on your mobile phone I'm not sure they will come out particularly well in terms of quality and pixelation. As I said before I haven't seen other photobooks but the prices I have seen for other companies seem to be far higher. I can see photobooks like this being a very popular option this Christmas.

Have you ever had a photobook made?

I was sent a photobook from SuperPhoto for review purposes. All words, opinions and photographs are my own.



13 comments:

  1. I made a photobook a few years ago for my hubs of his younger sisters and it was so much fun to do x

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  2. What a great selection of photos you have, and a lovely way to display them. Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested

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  3. What a wonderful idea.....Fantastic photos x

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  4. I love photobooks and always try to make one from each trip we take (although I 'm a bit behind!!). This looks great and a really good price.

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  5. I love photobooks, I have made a few of my holidays. Will certainly be checking out this company.

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  6. They would make a great christmas present! I am terrible at getting my pics printed out, which is a shame really!

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  7. One of my favorite places in the whole world. I love photo's and am putting together two books at the moment

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  8. I love photobooks as they bring back all the memories of a fantastic trip or moment in time. When I'm old I shall spend hours going through them all - I'm looking forward to that day!

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  9. I had one made just recently from a travel pictures. They are a great gift idea. I will have to check your service out as my one cost over £50 :-(

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  10. What a cute idea! I took and chose some really pretty photos for the book :) I might have to make something similar with mine when I get back from Asia next year!

    Sara | This Girl Loves

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  11. I love photo books are they are so less bulky than a photo album and create lasting memories

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  12. I have a photographer friend who get's these done when he travels abroad - they're a beautiful and accessible way of remembering fun time s and picturesque places.

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  13. I love photo books, reminds me that I need to get this done for ours! x

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