civilized ku # 76 ~ more POD photo book info

Everson Museum - Syracuse, NY • click to embiggenI'm back in the saddle again from a trip to Syracuse, NY. The trip was the wife's gig - a work-related conference, I was just along for the ride.

The trip's low point - Syracuse, the city, (my birthplace) is mostly a desolate wasteland. If it were not for Syracuse, the University, the place would be totally desolate.

The trip's high points - spending time with the wife, the Everson Museum of Art, Light Work Gallery, and a walk (very muddy) through a cemetery looking for a specific monument - a life-size reclining German shepherd - that has a very vivid stature in my early childhood memories of many of my visits to my grand parent's house. My great-uncle took me on walks in the cemetery with his German shepherd and my mission was to find the German shepherd monument.

POD photo books continued -

Thanks to all who have responded both here and by email. To date, we have 15 volunteers.

There have been many questions concerned mainly with production issues - POD printer quality issues, how-to issues, etc. Over the coming week, I will be addressing all questions - feel free to add more to the pile.

During the interim, check out my POD sources of choice:

1) shutterfly.com - great service, very good and accurate image quality, good paper and cover materials, fast turnaround, and inexpensive (primarily due to many ongoing discount offers). caveat: be certain to turn off their VividPic setting which is default on all images - fortunately, it can be turned off globally within project albums.

2) sharedink.com - great service, extremely accurate image match and quality, many superb paper, end paper, and cover material choices, big book sizes, the option to get a single page press proof before printing, slower turnaround, expensive. be advised: you must request, by email, information on there Photographer Program - a 'hidden from the public' part of their website where all the goodies are found. There is a one-time charge to join the program although you can try it out for a free 30-day trial period.

Neither printer requires you to use their tools - all page creation can be performed on your own computer using Photoshop for full freedom image size / placement and text / type creation.

More to come.