What self-publishing websites for photo books and photo calendars are the best?
I recently created a wall calendar using both lulu.com and Mixbook and was disappointed with the results from both sites. All my photos are black and white, some slightly sepia....just enough for some warmth in the photo (processed on an iMac 24" monitor). Neither site reproduced exactly the tones in the original .jpg files. Lulu did better, but all of the warm tones were stripped from the final printed photos, even though when I previewed the calendar before publishing it, the tonal quality was exactly as it should be. With Mixbook, all my photos in the final printed product have a bluish cast to them that is NOT in the original photo. Can anyone recommend an online self-publishing service that can reproduce black and white photos exactly as they are?
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Nancy Richard said:
Kristina, have you tried printing a book by directly ordering from the Apple site. I use I-Photo for a lot of my personal cards and have had pretty good luck. Sometimes I transfer my better quality photos from Aperture to I-Photo so that I can order a card from there. Also, I've printed a couple of books with them and was fairly pleased. However, all of this was color...........I'm not sure how B & W or sepia would do.
3 months ago
Nancy Richard said:
Sorry, I meant to say, "tried printing a calendar".
3 months ago
Kristina Krause said:
Thanks Nancy. No, I haven't used iPhoto for anything other than to transfer photos from my iMac to my iPad. I will check into this though.
3 months ago
Michael F. OBrien said:
COSTCO does a very good wall calendar! For books I have published over twenty books on blurb.com. You can see mine via my jpg.com page.
2 months, 1 week ago
richardbrucesmith said:
Apples default supplier is great for colour >no so great for black and white -Images are muddy with a great variation in colour cast.
2 months ago