Re: JAlbum book review
Late but actual follow up to my original review. I do apologize for unnecessarily protracted silence... The interesting dimensions are: 1. Photograph on the front cover: 273 mm x 183 mm. 2. Vertical picture: 123 mm x 184 mm. 3. Horizontal picture: 230 mm x 184 mm. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
JAlbum book review
Hi! Timing is crucial, you know. Galia has her birthday today and the book arrived just 1 hour ago, so I'll be bringing her a proper gift from work this evening. Presently I cannot put PDML books beside this one and compare but I can tell few things nonetheless: Good: * Hard cover with title picture printed on it. Very neat. * Heavy (for lack of better word) and thick paper. * Excellent print quality, I deliberately chose both black and white, toned and color pictures. I don't see any significant fidelity problems. I think that b/w shots are slightly colored but I fail to see what is the exact color tint. * You don't need to install any apps in order to design the book. All is done on the web. I quite like that. * Shipping was done by Fedex and they paid for all the customs and other duties. This is extremely convenient. Fedex service in Israel (my first encounter thereof) proved surprisingly forthcoming. Bad: * Very little customization. Effectively you upload the images on the web, set the book title and one or more additional fields and that's it. You can also give titles to images, but I did not do that. * Fedex shipping is on more expensive side and I did not have any other options except even more expensive Fedex shipping (express???). Neutral. * The cost of 20 pages book is USD 25 (there're some discounts but they seem to be temporary) plus shipping. Then the price goes per page as far as I understand. Conclusion: It seems to me that it is a pilot/starting project and soon enough they will make it more customizable. I sure would consider making more books with them. I'll get home this evening and perform direct comparison between this book and those that Mark produced. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: JAlbum book review
Boris Liberman wrote: Hi! Conclusion: It seems to me that it is a pilot/starting project and soon enough they will make it more customizable. I sure would consider making more books with them. I'll get home this evening and perform direct comparison between this book and those that Mark produced. Boris That's very useful Boris, thanks. I use Jalbum for all of my galleries and was going to give this a try. I will now. You're right about the customisation - my experience is that they develop things quickly. Cheers, Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: JAlbum book review
On 10/6/2010 7:26 PM, Chris Mitchell wrote: That's very useful Boris, thanks. I use Jalbum for all of my galleries and was going to give this a try. I will now. You're right about the customisation - my experience is that they develop things quickly. Cheers, Chris Chris, please hold your horses for a brief moment. I'd like to measure the pictures in my book to give you and others exact dimensions for saving the images. Did yesterday brief and non-scientific comparison of PDML 2010 versus JAlbum book. Few points: 1. JAlbum book is slightly bigger but of the same general layout (landscape, about A4 in size) 2. JAlbum book is printed with white background which some may or may not like. Probably this is customizable, but I for birthday present I thought white was more appropriate. 3. Naturally being more professional than I and having experience in this matter since PDML 2009, Mark has applied very accurate amount of sharpening so that PDML images look crispy (for lack of better word). Mine are less so, because I did not play with it yet. I am certain however, that this can be taken care of completely. All in all, I am very positive about my first book experience. I plan to do more. Chris, and others, if you make more JAlbum books and gain interesting insight as to how to prepare the images for their printing, please share this information on the list. Thanks. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
