Apparently, I though of this a year and a day ago... → 2006-12-25 Printing Pictures. Qoop was uncomplicated and ok. Everything happened online, it automatically resized the text I had on Flickr, and all I had to do was pick the 80 pictures I wanted. This year I wanted to try something else and picked Blurb. First problem is that they don’t want to tell me how much shipping will cost. Grrr! Then they require I download their book software. Hmpf. But they have a Mac version of their software which is nice. And they do import the pictures from Flickr. (I found both these companies on the Do more with oyur photos page.) When I looked at the result after it had downloaded 100 pictures from Flickr, I was disappointed. It gave me more freedom than I required. The defaults I had picked resulted in pictures cropped to squares. I did not like that and started looking for other layouts. When I picked a non-cropped layout, there was some space to fill with text. Apparently they had not downloaded the descriptions I had written on my Flickr pages. I was free to write my own. But I don’t want to! I tried multiple pictures per page. When I picked that layout, the current page changed and one of the containers was filled with the original picture and the other containers were empty. I would have to manually switch the layout for a quarter of the pages, rearrange the pictures, and delete the remaining three quarters. I tried deleting all the pages, switching layout, and auto flowing the pictures again, but only the first page got the layout I wanted. All the other pages got the layout I didn’t want. I gave up. It was about as complicated as doing it on paper and not at all what I expected it to be. I’m going to use QOOP again.
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