This post is the first of its kind on my blog, as it is a product review. NO other object would be more fitting than a photobook, don’t you think?
The company Saal-Digital gave me the opportunity to test their photobook and I made use of it!
It is a nice thing, to HAVE pictures and to share them online, but imprinted you give them a whole new significance.
As much as I usually like photography, a photobook of the own pictures you don’t capture every day…
This now is the result. My most loved pictures of many lovely places on paper. As this is my very first photobook, I will just tell from my perspective, how it works with Saal-Digital.
So you begin with installing the software you install on your computer.
The same offers many functions for any kind of product, of which the photobook might just be the most complex.
The process is quite simple, you just drag the images from the proprietary file explorer to the desired page, all intuitive. Cutting and pasting works like a charm, too, as does the feature to mirror to pictures on a centerfold. But all that mighty the internal file explorer is not, so I effectively chose the pictures from the Windows file explorer. Maybe, on the other hand, I just have a ton of pictures. 😀
I designed my first photobook in a puristic way and left out twirls and text entirely. Colour and print quality are most fine, I do not doubt, as far as my inexperienced eye can evaluate that. Even more, as the images out of my small-sensor camera let their limited detail show. I am happy not to have chosen a bigger format. For that you need bigger pictures. Also impressive are the black areas. For they are just black.
One point of convenience I didn’t notice until my family pointed it out to me: Not every supplier of photobook lets you design the fronts inside covers.
Also, you get the option to remove the Saal-Digital bar code for an additional fee.
In the end I missed the chance to see all pages back to back. You do get the scroll bar to browse through the pages, but I couldn’t make it full-frame. As rearranging the pictures between any page would be the icing of the designer’s cake.
With the cover I went for the cushioned variant. Now the book feels appealingly soft and every beholder liked to turn it over a second time in his hands. 🙂
Bottom line:
A splendid product, which is determined only by the own pictures and design ideas, in the end. Delivery was very fast as well.
Now I want to put more pictures of mine on paper. Yay!
