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Mypublisher maximum pages software#
Mypublisher maximum pages free#

You can also add assorted “ornaments” (small images appearing at the top and bottom of pages), if you are so inclined.Īdvantage Picaboo by a light year over MyPublisher and considerable distance over Blurb.

Mypublisher maximum pages full#

(The background I randomly picked for the picture above comes from basic “New Year” themes.) Blurb offers 85 backgrounds of patterns and watermarks, none of them especially brilliant, which are further customizable in terms of the actual colors, plus the full RGB palette of solid color backgrounds. In addition, there are tons of custom backgrounds downloadable from its “free goodies” library. Picaboo, just as with layouts, offers 130 “basic” backgrounds, with user in complete control of choosing one for every page. MyPublisher provides unalterable stock backgrounds for every book style, with some styles allowing for an additional choice of background color for every page. Where Blurb comes ahead is that it allows you to design the book dust jacket or cover, as opposed to the other two services, where you can only select a picture to appear at the front of the book.Īdvantage Picaboo by a mile, with honorable mention to Blurb for the cover design. There are 16 variations of “collage” layouts, where you can combine up to 5 photos in an overlapping fashion, but nothing very elaborate. Unfortunately, most of them are uninspiring and grid-like. Altogether, there are probably over 200 layouts, of which 93 are picture ones. A fun layout such as the one below is only possible in Picaboo.īlurb does not force you into a limited selection of layouts and segregates them into for-purpose categories, such as “Recipes”, “Quotations”, “Index”, and special types such as “Copyright pages” or “Table of contents”. Furthermore, almost all of MyPublisher layouts are grid arrangements. To wit, Picaboo has 50 different layouts for a single-photo page MyPublisher’s Travel style offers only 7. Conversely, when Picaboo asks you to select your book style, that is simply to pre-build an empty book (or to automatically build the book with the sequence of your selected pictures) you then have a complete control over layout changes, not limited by the book “style”. MyPublisher possibly offers a similar total number of layout options, but with a serious limitation: You need to select a book “style” before starting with your project, and each style has only a segment of layouts available, somewhere in the vicinity of 90. Picaboo offers almost 300 different page layouts, from text-only or 1-photo-per-page to “blanket-spread” that can accommodate 20 or so pictures on a single page. MyPublisher is currently on version 3.1 of the software, Picaboo is at 2.0, Blurb’s BookSmart application is at 1.9.9.

Mypublisher maximum pages software#

The key similarity between the three is that they provide a desktop software for creating your book, which is uploaded in its finished form for professional printing. These services were my primary targets because photo-book production is their specialization, unlike photo-sharing and -printing online services that may offer photo-books as additional products. The article has been updated to include that in the comparison. : I also now played for a couple of hours with another similar service that only recently came to my attention, Blurb.

For those interested, the first-time user comparison follows.

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Having finished with Travelog, I spent some free time in the last couple of days test-driving two services for photo-book-making that I first mentioned in this article: MyPublisher and Picaboo.

If you are here because you’re looking for comparisons of various photo-books software – and why else would you be on this page, anyway? – I also invite you to also read my most recent follow-up at this link