Description
- Choose your photo books size
The first step to creating your personalised photo book is picking the right format. There are three different sizes to choose from:
- Small Landscape: Our smallest size available with a hard cover option. Choose our small landscape format when you want to showcase your smartphone landscape photography at its best. It’s also perfect for baby books and story books for children.
- Large Landscape: Our customers’ favourite choice – and it’s easy to see why. Our large landscape format is perfect for creating a personalised photo book that can be treasured, year after year. Choose this option for travel photography, wedding albums and to show off your very best landscape shots.
- XXL Landscape: Breath-taking landscape photos? Professional nature photography? Panoramic shots? If these are your forte, our XXL landscape format is the best way to bring your photos to life in stunning detail. For that extra special project, our XXL Landscape format gives you more than enough room to flex your creative muscles. Pick this option for artists’ portfolios (choose true matte paper), wedding books and anniversary gifts.
- Choose your paper type
The paper type you choose matters just as much as the size. Here’s how to choose the right one for your photo book:
- Classic Paper (200 gsm): A versatile option that works for just about any project. It’s also available for all sizes of book.
- High Gloss Paper (200 gsm): A rich, glossy finish that will really bring out vibrant colours in your photos. It’s also sturdy and easily cleaned. Choose for colourful photography and books for children.
- True Matte Paper (170 gsm): A velvety smooth, shine-free finish makes our True Matte Paper perfect for artistic books, professional portfolios and black and white photography.
- Classic Photographic Paper (300 gsm): The choice for photography aficionados. Because our photographic papers are produced using traditional wet photography development, you get a truly professional finish that’s ideal for wedding books, portrait photography and professional books.
- Gloss Photographic Paper (300 gsm): Unparalleled colour vibrancy. That’s what you’ll discover when you opt for our gloss photographic paper. It’s the perfect choice for landscape and travel photography.
- Matte Photographic Paper (300 gsm): The elegant, subdued finish of this paper makes it an excellent choice for artistic books. The traditional photographic development process means that the most minute details of your photos are reproduced to stunning effect.
- Choose your custom photo book cover
Once you’ve picked your book format and your paper type, it’s time to start getting creative with covers. Here’s what to keep in mind when choosing your cover option:
- Booklet: Staple-bound like a brochure, our most spritely cover option is still fully customisable. A great choice for smaller projects and thoughtful gifts.
- Softcover: A lightweight, flexible option that’s still fully customisable and durable enough to withstand wear and tear. Great for children’s picture books or books you’ll be carrying around to share with loved ones.
- Hardcover: Our most popular cover type. A hardcover gives your project the look and feel of a real book. It’s fully customisable with your own images, text and other design elements – and the only cover type available with our elegant embossing.
- Faux Leather: The perfect choice for recapturing the look and feel of a traditional leather-bound photo album. An excellent option for wedding albums and yearbooks.
- Customise with premium finishing touches
- Highlights:The perfect way to make your book look and feel even more luxurious. They add a visual and tactile effect through Gold, Silver or Gloss embossing to make your book really stand out. They can be applied to raise numerous design elements on the cover of your book, such as text, frames, borders, selected clip art and more. There’s no better way to give your project an extra special finishing touch. (Available in books above Small in Hardcover only.)
- Layflat Binding:Have stunning panoramic shots to display? Putting together a professional wedding book? Our layflat binding is the only way to showcase your photos seamlessly across a double page. Perfect for creating photo books to show off to your guests.
Our partners use the latest printing technology alongside the best paper and inks to make sure every book is exceptional.
