Turning Pages Photo Book Review

Turning Pages closed down their site in September for over a month to do a major site relaunch. The site may have a new look, but the photo book section and software remain mostly the same.

What was interesting about this photo book software review was how well they did on the Feature Set Review and yet the software is so slow to use that you forget how much can be done on this site.

While I found the site easy to navigate, the wait time for loading backgrounds, layouts, borders and artifacts was annoying. Every time I switched from backgrounds to layouts, I had to wait for it to reload. Going from one page to the next even required time for loading data. Don't even get me started on the time it takes to load the finished book.

It's easy to delete a photo from your project using the trash bin, but if you have it on a page and change your mind (and who doesn't do that) the process to remove it (but still save it in your project) is a bit more tedious and time consuming.

In short, if you have a lot of time on your hands and nothing open on your computer, you might want to give Turning Pages a try. After all - they did do well on the Feature Set Review.

Along with photo books, calendars, posters and prints are also available at Turning Pages. The photo books are sewn, hard cover bound and printed on archival quality paper. Books start with 24 pages and can hold up to 88.

Updated: November 20, 2009

Turning Pages 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.

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Comparative Photo Book Software Review

Background Themes	At least 20 themes in each book size, but a wide variety of choices you can use.
Layout Variety	There are an adequate amount of set layouts, but you can add, delete and move pictures for any layout.
JPG as a Background	Yes
Digi-Scrapbooking Friendly	Yes
In-book Editing	Some picture editing capability.
Text - variety and Full Page	Yes, and has a nice text editor
Embellishments and Corners	Wide variety of corners and artifacts
Full-Page Bleed	Yes
Final Grade	A+