My Publisher vs Digilabs Photobook vs Smilebooks

by Mario Martinez
(Caracas Venezuela)

My Publisher
I made 2 photobooks - landscape only (years 2006 and 2007). Cheapest and fastest to use of the three. Image quality and pages not the best. Easy program. No hard cover. Only 8 fonts type. You cannot made your own design of photo´s and text position on the pages. Only pre-designed pages and book´s style. I rated 5/10.

Digilabs (years 2007, 2008 and 2009)
I made 3 photobooks in portrait. The best of Digilabs Asbhury Book´s type with Layflat Paper which it´s the only photobook finish which has it. Excellent image quality and pages. Hard cover. Use any fonts from your windows´ program. You can made your own design of photos and text in the album. Most expensive. Pre-designed layout pages and book´s style. I rated 9/10.

Smilebooks (year 2009)
I made 1 photobook portrait of 11 x 14", but I haven´t received it yet. Hard cover. Use any fonts from your windows´ program. You can make your own design of photos and text in the album. You can place a 1/2, 1/3 or any size of a photo or text wherever you want in 2 consecutives pages. Example:1/3 of a photo in one page and 2/3 on the next consecutive page (Digilabs does not allow this). Most complete and best photobook program of the three. Excellent editing of photo. Pre-designed pages and book´s style. Excellent layout of pages. I rated so far 10/10.