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What You See Is Not What You Get
I completed my second photo book with Shutterfly, and I now understand more about how the Shutterfly process works and why I had difficulties with my first book. This book also required two reprints and it’s still not perfect, but … Continue reading
Forever and PDF File Size Limits
One of my goals is to always preserve the photo books I create on my Forever site. I don’t always care about individual photos, since in the absence of specific information about the photos and a system to organize them, … Continue reading
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Tagged Customer Service, digital file, File is too big, forever, PDF, photo book
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A Tale of Two Reprints
Shutterfly offers an automatic photo book creation process. I created my photo book but when it was time to order, I suffered a case of severe case of photo book sticker shock. No problem. I could easily wait to place … Continue reading
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Tagged binding defect, cover, missing adhesive, photo book, professional 6-color printing, Shutterfly, white line
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Shutterfly Wins at Automatic Photo Book Creation
After my previous post on creating a photo book at Shutterfly, I received multiple suggestions from readers of this blog to try Forever’s automatic photo book creation process. I decided to give it a try and see how it worked. … Continue reading
Photo Book Creation at Shutterfly
I recently finished creating a photo book using Shutterfly’s online photo book creator. I had various reasons for selecting Shutterfly, but the primary reason was the need to deal with an overwhelmingly large number of photos from a family trip … Continue reading
Long-Term Preservation of Photo Books
Preservation of photo books requires preserving the digital file as well as the physical photo book since millennials and others frequently prefer digital photos to an actual book. This is theory behind a presentation I gave at Forever Live! on … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Files, online storage, Photo Books, Presentations
Tagged digital file, Forever LIVE!, millennials, PDF, photo book, Preservation
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The Library of Congress Preserves the Past; Creative Memories Preserves the Present
I have visited the Library of Congress and toured their facilities for preserving books, photos, and other materials several times in the past. Unfortunately, I have never documented my trips there, so I was glad to locate Gallery: Digitizing the past and … Continue reading
StoryBooks are now even better!
In September, we will start manufacturing all Hardcover StoryBooks here at Creative Memories. This change allows us to further integrate digital StoryBooks with our traditional products. Improved quality Starting in September, we’ll be discontinuing all 11 x 8.5 linen and … Continue reading
More on Turning Photo Books into Bricks
In Turning Photo Books into Bricks I described how high humidity will turn many photo books made from traditional photographic paper into bricks. The Fuji Film Memo describing the problem and a Translation are now available here. At the last ISO meeting on … Continue reading
Turning Photo Books into Bricks
The easiest way to turn a photo book into a brick is to order one of the new photo books printed on traditional photographic paper. Most of these books are produced with uncoated photo paper that is placed in direct … Continue reading
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Tagged blocking, bricks, Fujifilm, humidity, moisture, PEN Weekly, photo book, Photo Electronic News, Photo Imaging News, photographic paper
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