I thought this might be helpful for many of us who are just starting out. Can we compile a list and perhaps some pictures of the different kind of albums that exist these days?

If anyone could share definitions & pictures of the following, that would be great. And if I left out any, please add them.

* Coffee Table

* Flush Mount

* Matte

* Magazine style

what a fantastic thread! THANK YOU! Can i emphasize, PLEASE SUMBIT PICTURES of the various albums/types of albums if you have them.... also maybe include a guestbook album??

Ok, as for me... the only one I have had done that I got pictures of is:

GraphiStudio: Leather, embossed 8x8 flushmount guestbook 30 pages/15 spreads


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Zookbinders 10x10 Zookbook with silver guilding & imprinting, cover cameo, and glove mesa blue leather.

I have some great pics of a La-vie, but I need to get them processed. I'll post several once I get this done.

Beth,
Is that considered flushmount?

I'll answer for Beth. Yes, the Zookbook is considered flushmount.

Thanks Lynn!

Sorry, I forgot to include flushmount to my description. Oops!

Not sure what the deal is with the thumbnails. I thought I deleted them when I edited my post. Sorry 'bout that too!

Thanks everyone. Keep those pictures and descriptions coming!

[quote name='cmhudson' date='June 12 2007, 08:51 AM' post='151008']
what a fantastic thread! THANK YOU! Can i emphasize, PLEASE SUMBIT PICTURES of the various albums/types of albums if you have them

+1. Album choices make my head spin. I've decided it's almost possible to choose a company/style of album without seeing them in person, and since I haven't had the opportunity it's no wonder I JUST started offering coffee table books! I'm looking for albums, though, so this will be helpful I'm sure!

Does anyone think the Zook ordering process is a hassle? My hubby asked me the other day why I don't offer them, and it's because it seems like such WORK. I want to just design in PS and upload.

I have an Asukabook. I'll post some pics in a bit.

Actually, so far I'm finding the Zook ordering process to be one of the easiest! Although the first order with any company can be frazzling. But now that I've done it a couple of times, I've been very happy. I have done both print & bind as well as just bind and sending in the images I printed at WHCC.

What problems have you had with the Zookbinders process? We haven't had problems. Maybe we can help you out if we know what you thought was a hassle.

We haven't tried print and bind yet, but I know ordering pages through Labprints is super easy, we have used Labprints extensively over the past three years with another lab.

I looked into them and the process of sending out your files to the lab to be printed, then sitting down and numbering them and mailing them in to Zook seems time consuming. Also, I don't quite "get" the numbering? Does it mean that you can't "overlap" pictures like you could if you designed it digitally? I guess I'm just confused. I want to be able to have, say, a background image in low opacity with other images layered over it...I guess I'm not sure how you would number something like that and control where the images are going exactly.

LOL! Can you tell I'm a bit of a control freak?

No, no, no -- they don't design it for you. You design it (in Photoshop, LabPrints, whatever) and send them the spreads. Your first (e.g. 10x10 ZookBook) 10x10 page is page 1. The next spread (10x20) are pages 2 and 3. And so on. If all the pages (except the first and last) are 10x20 spreads, the numbering is easy. If you have a few that are two 10x10s next to each other, well, it's still easy.

It's even easier if you design it in LabPrints and have them print and bind -- then you don't have to number anything. You also don't pay to ship your prints to them.