I’m no expert on photo books so when I started doing them I wanted an easy and quick way to produce them so I tried a bunch of different ones and opted for Jessops as their software is very powerful yet very simple to use and I have been very pleased with the results.
At first glance it seems very basic, the auto layout function doesn’t seem to work very well, it just puts one image per page and doesn’t do multiple images on single pages, as my first project has 162 images, this layout isn’t ideal as that is 162 pages which is too big and unnecessarily costly.
As it's a bit basic it has forced me to do the layout manually and in turn this has taught me how to really use Booksmart, after much clicking about and one quick ‘Google’ I now know Booksmart to be very powerful, it’s just the toolbar layout isn’t very intuitive but once I found how to do something it was easy.
My project is now down to 144 pages and I’m not halfway yet, I am very pleased with how it is looking so far.
When doing a photo book – take your time, it can’t be rushed if you want a nice book at the end of it, how would you feel once your book landed on the door matt and you weren’t 100% happy with it and wished you had spent a bit longer on the design?
Depending on the time you have to spend on your book, I would allow a week to design it, and then review it, maybe add some text with dates and names of people along with places.
The next thing I need to work out is the Blurb service where people can order books from you directly from Blurb’s website, once I have I will post more info.
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