iPhoto picture book
So last christmas I gave it a try and ordered a picture book dirctly at Apple through iPhoto. There are many businesses offering the same kind
of service at a much lower price …but what the heck! …it’s so convenient from iPhoto and I just wanted to give it a try.
Designing the book was quite easy. You create a new book, pick a design and cover type and then you can just drag the pictures onto the pages from you library. But there are quite a few annoyances.
- After a while I changed my mind and instead of a hard cover I wanted to get it as soft cover. Sorry, can’t change it! (At least I could not find how) You would have to create a new book and start from scratch. Too much work – so I left it as a hard cover.
- The designs are pretty strict. If you have more to write than what fits into the text boxes you are screwed. No way of altering individual pages. No way of adding additional text to it.
- Anyway after a while the book was finished and iPhoto took my personal information and uploaded everything to Apple. I would have expected they have someone to print them somewhere more local but instead I had to pay big bucks to get it shipped from the US.
When it arrived the packaging was Apple like in a cool white-grey box. Nice! But when I looked at the book I was a little disappointed. The
front picture was just glued onto the cover. Not looking very professional. Then I opened it. Printing stripes! Noticeable especially on the black pages. Quite terrible already but even
worse – they did not cut the pages correctly. And what no one told me before – the last page (on the inside of the cover) there is an Apple logo and it says “Done with a
Mac”. Sorry, but I am not paying around 50 EUR plus a shipping of around 10 EUR and then have advertisement on the last page.
Convenient or not – again Apple failed to deliver. The sad point is that this is becoming increasingly common these days.