Printing your own albums is fun; and the results are so satisfying.

But which album to choose?

OPUSalbums.com recommends one of the following.

Print&Bind

For the majority of holiday pictures we recommend the OPUSalbums Print&Bind print-your-own album. It is quick, easy and economical; functional and, above all good looking – even beautiful. – 15 pages of quality photo-glossy paper, neatly bound into an elegant compact plastic cover. Pages can be added or removed at will. That’s why we recommend a pack – you will be making more and more albums and giving them away as presents.

Typically you will want to put 4-8 pictures per page (vary them) – two on the title page – so 90 pictures to the album.

PhotoArt

If your holiday was longer (and therefore more pictures), you want to add quality, especially if you want to show off your photographic prowess, then we recommend the OPUSalbums PhotoArt album – 20 double sided pages (say 240 pictures). It has hard, museum board covers and a choice of professional quality Innova Art archival paper – soft textured, or smooth white cotton. I recommend the latter for holiday pictures.

Pics Book

Finally, for the ultimate in flexibility you have the Pics Book – as we say – far more than a photo book. You have a choice of covers – with various thicknesses up to 9mm (for up to 60 sheets – 720 pictures), a choice of paper – from standard uncoated inkjet paper – through quality digital photo (we recommend the double sided Olmec gloss paper) through to the full range of professional photo papers such as photo art papers above and the award winning Fibaprint™ photographic papers – beloved by the expert photo professionals.

The only downside of the Pics Book is that you have to invest in the Pics Book binding machine (the Unibind XU138) – but this is a worthwhile investment if you are more than a casual album producer. (It has many other office uses too – such as for proposals, reports and short-run books).

That’s an idea. You enjoyed your holiday. Now write and self-publish a book about it. You might even be able to sell it!

Daniel Roberts
Director, Incartek (ink Cartridge Technologies Ltd)

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Your holiday forms a story. Go back over it. Share it. Enjoy it for many years.

Whether it is a three weeks adventure on a cruise, trek or a visit to an exotic location or a three day break on a budget airline , you have plenty of material to make a very interesting book, a book to which you go to, or share round your friends and family immediately – or in years to come. We recommend OPUSalbums.com (we would, wouldn’t we?).

There is no need to cower over a VDU, pass round a laptop, look through 100’s of unnecessary pictures. And there is no need to worry about technological obsolescence or hardware failure either.

Software

A quick album is ideally made using Fotoslate4. Indeed we do not recommend our flagship dg Foto Art for normal holiday albums. Alternatively you might like to try one of the OEM supplied products such as Epson’s Photo Quicker.

The Album

We recommend:

- OPUSalbums Print&Bind – the easy-to-use economical album standard

- OPUSalbums PhotoArt – the superior album with card museum board covers and double sided archival acid free art or textured paper

- OPUSalbums Pics Book – with Olmec double sided photo gloss paper If you are showing off photos then we recommend either the Photo Art album or the Pics book – in both cases with Innova’s double sided smooth cotton hgiht white archival paper. The Pics Book option presupposes that you have a Pics Book binding machine – the Unibind XU138 – a worthwhile investment if you are making a lot of books. (For more go to “Choose the right album for your Holiday Pictures“)

Then

- Select and organise your material

- Allocate a subject to each page in your album

- Layout your album – add text and background

- Print, bind, admire, enjoy and share your memories.

Whilst talking about vacations don’t forget another couple of ideas

1. The Photo accordion – print a few highlights of your vacation for your friends and family.

2.The Postcard or Greeting Card – print your own cards – a good way to communicate especially if you have a big network.

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