The preferred method of designing a book is to create a folder (with the same name as your book title) of selected images on your computer.  Keep this folder of images on your computer as long as you will want to return to a saved book for editing, or to use as a template for another book.

Any images on an external device (external hard drive, server, etc.) that is disconnected from your computer will result in a “de-linking” of those images.  Your saved book will not be recoverable.

Any book that has already been sent to PhotoBook Press will be saved – but in PDF form.

Yes, absolutely.

Download the PhotoBook Design Tool software to lay out your book and automatically submit it.

Or, use our submission guidelines to design your book in PhotoShop, InDesign or whatever design software you prefer. You can upload your completed book design to the PhotoBook Press FTP server.  Call or email for login instructions.

Unlike mass produced books from Internet vendors, our books are printed on 115 lb text weight archival paper using state-of-the-art Kodak digital presses. We offer a clear coat to each individual image to protect it and make it more “photographic” than other digital printing. The books are sewn into signatures and bound with the highest quality materials in a way that they will look the same 100 years from now as they do today.

A PhotoBook Press book is an heirloom quality fine book – an investment in preserving memories that matter.

The maximum width for sewn binding hard cover books is 10 inches.

The maximum height for sewn binding hard cover books is 12 inches.

Large format books are available in both hard and soft cover with a perfect binding.

Perfect binding is the most common type of binding used today. The pages are trimmed on all sides and then glued onto the cover, either hard or soft. This is an economical binding and all manner of books today use it, even some high quality coffee table books.

At PhotoBook Press all of our softcover books are perfect bound and our most economical hard cover books are perfect bound wrapped in a hard cover binding.

Smyth (rhymes with blithe) sewn binding is a traditional book binding found in the finest books. The book is created from booklets called signatures which are  stitched together (always with thread not staples) and then glued to the cover. This method makes a strong book that will never come apart and allows the book to open flat forever. It is generally reserved for hard cover books.

At PhotoBook Press we use linen thread to sew 12 page signatures. Our hard cover books are constructed of many 12 page signatures – which is why your hard cover sewn binding book has a page count that is a multiple of 12.

“I just received the soft cover coffee table book this afternoon and it is fabulous.

Thanks for such a quick and excellent job.

Thanks again…”

Thank you so much! It came out fantastic!!!! I am shooting another wedding tomorrow…so be prepared for another one of those. You did sooo amazing!

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!  I got my book when I got home this evening and it was the best day I’ve had since our wedding!  It is so beautiful…I knew it would be but it surpassed all expectations.  Thank you for all of your work and for being so easy to work with.  I can’t wait to show it to all of my family and friends.