Winkflash Photo Book Review

Winkflash is very popular for its inexpensive prints and not for its photo books. They have recently increase their book size options so they have more to offer.

The photo book software is not as advanced as some of the other photo book printers. They do offer around 100 different backgrounds now, but most of the backgrounds are just a plain color. The layouts are limited and there is no option to create your own layout. There is a load time for each picture that really slows you down while designing the book. I decided to try to make a book by using autofill. They only use one layout in autofill and there is a considerable load time to view another page.

They recently had a marvelous sale on a Flatrate for 20 to 100 pages in the 10x8 book. This was a great time to make a few family history books. My first frustration came while trying to use their picture Transporter. It was not easy getting items "out" of the transporter and into folders. Then for some reason the software wanted me to use another uploader, and this seemed to work ok. I was a little frustrated with their lack of layouts, but in the end I was unable to make a book because the pictures I had scanned were not showing up with enough resolution to print.

If you need help getting started with your book they have a video tutorial. They now have Customer Service Live Support on M-F from 10am to 9pm.

If you have your pictures on Winkflash already and want a very plain book this would be good for you. If you want to design your own book you'd probably have more fun with another site.

Updated: September 28, 2009

Winkflash Photo Book Review

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Comparative Photo Book Software Review

Background Themes	Around 100
Layout Variety	Limited - only 30 total
JPG as a Background	No
Digi-Scrapbooking Friendly	Yes
In-book Editing	No
Text - Variety and Full Page	An adequate variety including full page text.
Embellishments and Corners	None
Full-Page Bleed	Yes
Final Grade	C+