Lulu Photo Book Review

Lulu is a photo book printer that specializes in printing books for people who want to self-publish their own books and want to print on demand. Many of their customers design their books in their own software and upload the completed book. But, you can make lovely books with the software that they provide. You can make photo books, cook books, and poetry books in the "studio".

The picture uploading process is integrated with Photobucket, Flickr, Facebook, and My Lulu. This makes it very easy to get pictures from these sites to include in your book. It is also nice that you can continue working on your book while uploading photos. There are not many backgrounds or page layouts to choose from, but all of the choices are useful and attractive. When making a book you start with the choice of a photo book, cook book, or poetry book. Each choice has been optimized for the product - for instance you have very limited text options if you are making a photo book. Both the poetry book and cook book have limited photo options.

The paper weight used in the books is 80# "silk coat" finish. Many photo book printers use 100# paper.

If you want to self-publish a book that you have created in your own software Lulu is for you. They have several book size options and directions for uploading your own books. Whether you create your own or use their Studio you can get a good deal on quantity discounts.

Updated: December 17, 2009

Lulu Photo Book Review

What is the Quality of the Photo Books?

The review on this page only reviews the software that you use to make your photo book. In order to review the quality of the photo book you receive or the quality of any help please go to Photo Book Experiences. Here you will find what other people have said about this printer/publisher.

The quality of these comments are only helpful if Make Your Own Photo Books site visitors take the time to leave comments about their experiences. Please pay it forward to other site visitors by taking the time to leave a comment (good or bad)if you have made a photo book.

Comparative Photo Book Software Review

Background Themes	14 photo book themes
Layout Variety	Minimal
JPG as a Background	No
Digi-Scrapbooking Friendly	Yes
In-book Editing	Only flip, rotate, crop
Text - variety and Full Page	Variety with different types of books
Embellishments and Corners	No
Full-Page Bleed	Yes
Final Grade	C+