How long does it take to make my photo book?

From the time we receive your photographs, it normally takes around 4 weeks. That includes design and layout, proofing, revisions, approvals, printing and binding.

If you are submitting your own book layout it takes about 3 weeks.

Customize Your Photobook

If you want to create a unique book like no other  – you’ve come to the right place. At PhotoBook Press we are limited only by your imagination – and a couple of technical details. Custom layouts, custom endpapers, exotic binding materials.  If you can imagine it, we can produce it.

Our best ideas come from our customers – so let us know how you would really like your book to look.

Making the Sewn / Glued Binding Choice

The highest standards of print quality and archival integrity of papers is present in both hard and soft cover books from PhotoBook Press.

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If you want your book to feel substantial, open flat and last forever, a sewn book is the only choice. Sewn books are are almost always hard cover and smyth sewn in 12 page signatures from 36 pages up to 300 pages, or more. They will always open flat, they will never come apart and the images will be as beautiful many years from now as they are today.

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A glued book is the most common binding among photo books. Often called “perfect binding” it is usually a paperback but could be available with a hard cover (with a glued spine). This is the only choice if your book has fewer than 36 pages (sides), or a good choice if you might update the book some time in the future and reprint it, or if you want more economical copies of hard cover books. Soft cover books come in a wide variety of sizes and in page counts up to 240 pages.

“As I told you when we first started talking about these two projects, I just wanted my books to reflect the time, effort, and love that went into creating them. I wanted to feel proud of my work and I certainly am so proud of these books and will love showing them to my clients, my family, and friends.”

Joann Weiser
Personal Historian
Folsom, CA