Alternatives to Photobox?

[Cloudy147]

Hi all,

After many HOURS of trying over several DAYS, I'm now at sweating-rage point with Photobox where I want to smash my keyboard through my monitor.

They have changed their creation studio and its now seven different shades of awful and its driving me to despair.

I'm looking for a website that can create photobooks (A4 Portrait is what I'm after) and do the grunt work - i.e. add in all the photos and let me mess about a bit with the layout afterwards.

Photobox is no longer that place - it simply cannot do what I want with any form of logic or simplicity.

Any recommendations please for alternates?

Thanks!

[jurbie]

Maybe give Loxley a go.

https://www.loxleycolour.com/

I don't know if they'll do everything you want but I've always been happy with them.

[GetCarter]

I've used Blurb.com for years - over 1000 books bought. Delivery takes two weeks (printed in Europe), but the software works and the results are good (and cheaper than PhotoBox).

ETA, just wait until they do 40% off... which they do every couple of weeks.

Choose the UK site.

Edited by GetCarter on Tuesday 18th June 11:16

[sgrimshaw]

Cloudy147 said:

Hi all,

After many HOURS of trying over several DAYS, I'm now at sweating-rage point with Photobox where I want to smash my keyboard through my monitor.

Thanks for the heads up on this, I was about to buy a load of credits in their sale. Just tried the software and I see exactly what you mean, it used to be "ok" but now it's terrible.

As mentioned above, the Blurb software is good (or it was when I last used it).

Maybe another option, and one I'll be exploring is using something to create A4 pages as jpg files so you can simply upload those images as "full pages" to Photobox then simply use all full page images in the book software.

[Cloudy147]

sgrimshaw said:

Thanks for the heads up on this, I was about to buy a load of credits in their sale. Just tried the software and I see exactly what you mean, it used to be "ok" but now it's terrible.

As mentioned above, the Blurb software is good (or it was when I last used it).

Maybe another option, and one I'll be exploring is using something to create A4 pages as jpg files so you can simply upload those images as "full pages" to Photobox then simply use all full page images in the book software.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Jurbie - thanks for this one, but it looks a bit too posh for what I'm after.

I'll give Blurb a lookski, thanks GetCarter and SGrimshaw!

Also, I have been playing with myphotobook.co.uk software last night - so far I'm very impressed. It is software that you download to your PC, so much better than using a web interface and the options/themes look really nice. I've just used the holiday theme and its really bright and colourful. I'll compare to Blurb tonight and pick my favourite.

So that's another one to try if you are in the market, Mr Grimshaw!

Cheers!

Paul.

[8bit]

jurbie said:

Maybe give Loxley a go.

https://www.loxleycolour.com/

I don't know if they'll do everything you want but I've always been happy with them.

Second vote for Loxley. I've used their creator studio software a few times, it's not perfect but works well once you have the hang of it. I use them for all my printing anyway, they're really good.

[SCEtoAUX]

DS Colour Labs are excellent.