Next you need to determine which features will help your story shine! We've put together four common questions for you to answer that will help you discern which features and therefore which product will best serve your story.
1. How many photos do you have?
If you have a curated selection of special photos (e.g. professional wedding portraits or family portraits), we recommend creating a photo album. Our Photo Albums have smaller page counts as we use a thicker board material to ensure your photos will be best preserved for years to come. You have the freedom to choose from our photo album paper options so you can select the material that will compliment your photos best. Our lay-flat binding is perfect for giving your moments that matter the perfect space to breathe, across a double-page spread.
If you have hundreds of photos or even thousands (e.g. photos from your recent travels or family photos on your camera roll), we recommend creating a photo book. Our Photo Books are crafted using a selection of high quality papers, which you can choose between to best suit your photos. As these are thinner than our albums range, MILK Photo Books can have up to 200 pages, which is perfect for giving space to many moments.
For those with lots of wedding photos, we recommend the MILK Wedding Magazine. Like photo books, the MILK Wedding Magazine has up to 200 pages, and the large portrait format (designed in the image of a traditional magazine) is a beautiful way to showcase your wedding day.
A shorthand would be: lots of photos = photo book, less photos = photo album.
With so many photo printing companies on the market now, it can be so difficult figuring out where to print the best photo books in Australia. Is it one of the consumer retail stores like Kmart, Officeworks, Harvey Norman or Big W who print the best photobooks? Or perhaps one of the many other online photo book printers that offer a quick and cheap service?
As a mum who takes lots of photos of her kids, and also a professional photographer offering premium photo products to my clients, I’ve used a few different photo book printers over the years so I wanted to share my thoughts.
There are quite a few differences between photo books and photo albums, the main ones being:
Paper type - images in photo books are printed onto thin press paper similar to that used for printing brochures or flyers, while photos in photo albums are printed onto professional grade photographic paper, then mounted onto a thicker substrate to form rigid pages.