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MyPublisher is always having deals and promotions. There’s a $10 off $50+ voucher right now (VAL10) and recently, I made use of the ’buy one get one free’ to produce a quick, affordable album for my cousin and his family while they no doubt wait to receive their pro pics. While there is certainly legitimate value in the very expensive pro-albums as far as image quality and the thickness and durability of their pages, places like MyPublisher offer a great alternative for the poor-bride’s album. Just don’t mark it up with greasy fingerprints! We used one for our wedding guestbook and had the guests sign the pages, and I was pretty happy with how it turned out.
Have you ever ordered through MyPublisher? What did you think about the quality?
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The book looks great! How user-friendly is their design system?
I just ordered one from a similar site, and am expecting its delivery this week….it will also be our wedding guestbook, as you did.
Any suggestions on what pens/markers to use for signatures?? You said yours turned out well! Just curious what you used…
I’ve used many services (Snapfish, Blurb, etc.) and MyPublisher has always been my favorite. I’ve always used the buy one get one free because I make one for each vacation (one for myself and one for my mother or sister). When I ordered the Blurb book, I was very disappointed with the quality. The paper was cheap and everything came out rather distorted and OVER saturated in color. With Snapfish, I found that the layouts were quite boring, and when I did the customer cover, the color was DE-saturated and it added a lot of “noise’ to my pictures. MyPublisher has consistently been good to me.
we used sharpies. i think ballpoint pens would leave too much of an indentation
and their layout method is SUPER user friendly. just drop and drag your photos.
Mrs. Milkshake, do you have photos of your guestbook to share? I am working on the same project, and I’d love to see what layouts you used for inspiration!
I LOVE mypublisher!! I highly recommend it. It is extremely user friendly. I have made a coffee table book from mypublisher of all the travels my fiance and I have taken together and they are our coffee table books. I also made one as the guest book that our guests will sign using all of our engagement photos. The quality is excellent. They also usually have a “buy one get one free” coupon. I use those so one book stays on the table (and that one can get finger prints and rips) and then I keep a clean copy for us in our bookshelf. If anyone has questions about mypublisher, feel free to ask! I’m obsessed with these!
I’ve used mypublisher, blurb and kodak gallery and mypublisher is by far my favourite!!! The quality was outstanding and I did a 2 for 1 (for my parents and my hubby’s parents) and it was super frugal.
Just a tip - I wanted a thicker book so I did single sided printing - costs the same as double but comes out much thicker.
@pandamonium: Thank you so much for the wonderful tip…..I’ve been meaning to make one but there were so many to choose from that it was over whelming to decide. Thanks again for this awesome review.
I ordered a couple of books of a recent vacation, and really liked how they turned out. I was a bit annoyed by the extra logo page at the back of the book, that didn’t show up during the proofing stage, but I know that can be cut out. Mrs. Milkshake, your book looks great! One note for new orderers: take account for the amount of the photo on the inner edges that will be taken up by the curve into the binding– best to lay out with “important” parts of the photo towards the outer edge, so nothing is cut awkwardly. For example, you definitely would not want the two photos in the last image above flopped, as it would be lost in the interior fold.
I don’t love the fragility of the printed dust jacket on mine– am looking forward to trying blurb, which I believe has an image wrap directly on the cover, instead of a jacket.
The image wrap books from Blurb are stunning. I ordered one with my honeymoon images from Italy, and it looks incredible. I prefer Blurb to mypublisher.
I used MP to print albums for our wedding for ourselves and both sets of parents. I was surprised that the quality. They turned out phenomonal, and I’ve gotten so many compliments. I upgrade to the largest size and the dust cover. The are extremely professional looking, and I believe most photographers are also using my publisher. I liked that I can work on the book on the downloaded software without having to upload photos first. I allows more flexibility when building the book.
I’ve used Inkubook and was pretty happy with it. But dang, drag and drop? I might have to try MyPublisher now.
Great to know about MyPublisher, I was about to do our engagement/guest sign in book in blurb, but now I’ll use your great discount! Thanks!
We did our wedding album through MyPublisher, and I went back a few weeks later to make 4 smaller albums for family Christmas gifts. Great experience.
Our Christmas books had a photo-sizing problem that was probably caused by a glitch in the software (because we removed/reshuffled some pages at the very last minute) but that I should have caught before placing our final order. So, hard to say exactly who was “at fault.” I emailed Customer Service about it, and their response was that, if there was ANY chance their software caused a problem, they wouldn’t dream of asking us to pay for the books. They redid all 4 for free, with a turnaround time of 3 days from new order to receipt (they included free overnight shipping) so we’d have the new books by Dec 24th. Totally above and beyond the call of duty!!
Does anyone have coupon codes for MP?
I used MyPublisher to make a book for Mr.L in the past and was so happy with the results! And it was SO easy to use…
Just be careful with coffee table books because they can rip and damage over time. You should always order multiple copies. Maybe one photo book for the coffee table and another to stow away for safe keeping!
Wow this is great feedback. I’ve made books on Apple and Blurb but now I think I’ll try My Publisher. We did a photo sign in Blurb book using our engagement pics and it was a big hit.
[...] I posted photos of the MyPublisher album I made for my cousin, someone asked me to post pictures of our MyPublisher wedding guestbook, so here it is. I have a [...]
I’m new here and planning a trip soon and planning a photo book for the family. I have a friend used iphoto and very happy; just wonder have anyone used iphoto before; I’m looking for quality as with the photos and the album itself. Any feed back would be helpful.
I have used Kodak to make books for all my trips and for other brides too (inexpensive to have a nice book). I am going to try MyPublisher now. Thanks for the tip!
Another great place to make a wedding photo book is http://www.familymemories.com/ - The quality is amazing! I’ve created 5 different books using their software - the quality is outstanding - every bit what I’d expect in a book store
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Mrs. Milkshake, Seattle/Vancouver, BC
Age and Occupation: 23, Pharmacist
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Pharmacist
Engagement Date: May 2007
Wedding Date: August 2008
Blogging Since: December 6, 2007
Venue: Victorian Mansion
About Me: Despite the fact that I’ve invested many long years of my life studying the sciences in college, I’m glad to be out of there and I would never do it again! I’m super artsy at heart - I run an indie craft site, I grew up shooting and developing my own film, doing jazz and ballet, and the whole gamut of art classes. I’ve been called a Jane of all Trades… but I was also told many years ago not to make my passion my career because it’d suck the fun out of it. Hence my choice of day job. We live in Seattle but are having our wedding in Canada to be fair to all our family and friends.
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