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Blurb

5/5

posted Feb-10-2013

I just received a large landscape book from Blurb in the mail yesterday, and I am thrilled with the result. It is a present for my mom for her birthday that is a compilation of her four children from the past ten years of our lives together. Mostly non professional pics, but also had some professionally taken and edited in there as well. All were printed as I expected with the colors exactly as I wanted. Even the few pictures that I scanned in on a not so great scanner turned out well.
I paid the extra $12 for the upgraded paper and am very happy with paper quality. I was also impressed with the embedded photos on the hardback cover. I did not use any Blurb layouts and made them all myself and everything was spaced and printed exactly as I wanted it. I had no problems with the software.
I have tried and been disappointed with the quality of both Mixbook (printing quality was awful and pages were falling out) and iphoto. I will recommend Blurb to any friends and will definitely use them again.

Mixbook

1/5

posted Dec-19-2012

The best part of mixbook is how easy to use it is and extremely customizable. I loved that part. Unlike other photobook sites, you can make the layout any way you want-all pictures can be moved around and resized very easily. The book I created online looked amazing. I used very high resolution photos from my DSLR camera and the colors were crisp.

Yesterday I received the book in the mail and it was pretty terrible. The front page looks great-as does the back page (I ordered a square soft cover) Inside is a different story. First of all, 2 pages fell out by merely turning the page-several others are pulling out from the top or bottom of the binding. The pictures that I had spanning between two pages are not matched up-off by at least 1/8". The colors are dull and color variations in the green in particular are bad. You can see bubbles and streaks in large swathes of single colors (ie a landscape pic of a sunset over the ocean). The pictures are also not sharp, which I know is not a function of my image size or quality. Maybe this program is more meant for pictures of people at a smaller scale.

I have contacted their service department in hopes of at least getting a book with pages that aren't falling out, but I'm afraid the photo color and quality issue is one that they can't resolve. I wish they offered a higher quality paper at a higher price so I could at least have this book looking nicer. I will not use Mixbook again. After reading some other reviews, I have switched to using Blurb. A little less user friendly, but the print quality gets rave reviews.