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I havent seen a review on these, so I thought I would at least do one.
For those of you who dont know, a photo book is like an album but in my eyes looks a lot more professional. Klick like many other photo printing retailers offer a variety of sizes and styles for you to print out on. I wanted to print holiday photos, so I decided to go for the biggest one available. To create the photo book, you must download the Klick software, which means all the photos are stored locally on the hard disk and you can pick and choose.
The software itself is easy to use and strait forward to follow, however every time you start the software up, it asks if you would like to update. On the few times I have clicked update it has said no update available only a price update.... slightly worrying.
You can either choose the wizard to sort the photos. You can specify how many pages you want and how many photos per page and leave the wizard to do the rest. I did this first, but later choose to do it all manual as the wizard does do funny things with the photos, however some people may like what the wizard does.
A nice touch is to choose a background for the pages. I choose black because I thought it looked the nicest and having seen it printed, most of the photos go well!
In terms of print quality, its OK. Not really that good. All the photos were taken with the 400d and a 17-85 mm lens. From photos I have printed out in the house, they are very sharp and come out nice. Smaller photos in the book have come out nice, however bigger photos have come out slightly pixelated; maybe Im being a bit funny about it.
The software does allow you to use a photo as your front cover, so I tried this. On the screen the photo looks good. Its a dark photo which I decided to use, however when I received the photobook Klick have printed the photo very very dark, and lost quite a lot of the features.
The photo book cost around £55 for 58 pages, which is a bit expensive, there are cheaper around. Would I buy another one? Yes I think I would, however I think I will try another printers first. One thing that attracted me to Klick was the price and the software they use. I looked at Jessops Snap fish, but they insisted on first uploading every photo you wanted to use, likewise with photobook. This would not normally be a problem but as Jessops only offer you 700 mb of storage, when you have 1000mb of photos, this isnt ideal.
As a side note, service was speedy and quick, I uploaded the photos on Monday bank holiday, got the confirmation about uploading on the Tuesday, and got the dispatch note on the Wednesday and Delivered on the Thursday. It does state that the process can take 10 days to complete.
All in all, I would recommend them, as long as you dont expect glossy photos, or pin sharp results, then you will be ok. I really like my photobook and have gown to it, however I still dont know if I should voice my concern over the Front page being a bit too dark.
If any of you want to see pictures, say here and ill upload them sometime tomorrow.
For those of you who dont know, a photo book is like an album but in my eyes looks a lot more professional. Klick like many other photo printing retailers offer a variety of sizes and styles for you to print out on. I wanted to print holiday photos, so I decided to go for the biggest one available. To create the photo book, you must download the Klick software, which means all the photos are stored locally on the hard disk and you can pick and choose.
The software itself is easy to use and strait forward to follow, however every time you start the software up, it asks if you would like to update. On the few times I have clicked update it has said no update available only a price update.... slightly worrying.
You can either choose the wizard to sort the photos. You can specify how many pages you want and how many photos per page and leave the wizard to do the rest. I did this first, but later choose to do it all manual as the wizard does do funny things with the photos, however some people may like what the wizard does.
A nice touch is to choose a background for the pages. I choose black because I thought it looked the nicest and having seen it printed, most of the photos go well!
In terms of print quality, its OK. Not really that good. All the photos were taken with the 400d and a 17-85 mm lens. From photos I have printed out in the house, they are very sharp and come out nice. Smaller photos in the book have come out nice, however bigger photos have come out slightly pixelated; maybe Im being a bit funny about it.
The software does allow you to use a photo as your front cover, so I tried this. On the screen the photo looks good. Its a dark photo which I decided to use, however when I received the photobook Klick have printed the photo very very dark, and lost quite a lot of the features.
The photo book cost around £55 for 58 pages, which is a bit expensive, there are cheaper around. Would I buy another one? Yes I think I would, however I think I will try another printers first. One thing that attracted me to Klick was the price and the software they use. I looked at Jessops Snap fish, but they insisted on first uploading every photo you wanted to use, likewise with photobook. This would not normally be a problem but as Jessops only offer you 700 mb of storage, when you have 1000mb of photos, this isnt ideal.
As a side note, service was speedy and quick, I uploaded the photos on Monday bank holiday, got the confirmation about uploading on the Tuesday, and got the dispatch note on the Wednesday and Delivered on the Thursday. It does state that the process can take 10 days to complete.
All in all, I would recommend them, as long as you dont expect glossy photos, or pin sharp results, then you will be ok. I really like my photobook and have gown to it, however I still dont know if I should voice my concern over the Front page being a bit too dark.
If any of you want to see pictures, say here and ill upload them sometime tomorrow.