Most companies targeted to pros do not sell to consumers, but there are some that do. It’s the high-end luxe version of a photo book and used to only be offered to pro photographers, but are now readily available to consumers. My flush mount wedding album (Anza) from BrideBox / MyPhotoCreations.Ī flush mount album is typically the most expensive album you can get. I frequently field questions from brides asking, “Where can I get a professional photo album with super thick rigid pages that lay flat? “ This dear friends is what you’re looking for – a flush mount photo album. BrideBox / MyPhotoCreations Lake Photo BookĪ Special Type of Lay Flat Album – The Flush Mount photo paper, and information about the differences in how they are printed, check out this two-part series on paper options. If you want a detailed comparison of standard paper vs. This is a photo of the Lake from BrideBox. You can see from the photo below that there is a white inner core to the pages. ( Mixbook, MyPhotoCreations, Picaboo, BrideBox, ArtsCow, Shutterfly, Snapfish.) ( AdoramaPix only makes lay flat books.) The upgraded paper may be real photo paper or may be digital press paper – usually the printed page will be fused to another surface giving the page a weightier feel. (MyPublisher – shown above, and Picaboo) (also Shutterfly as of 2017)Ģ) For others a lay flat book is a completely different product altogether, different binding and different paper. There are two basic options:ġ) For some companies, upgrading to a lay flat book means only a change in binding and not a change in the actual paper used. One of the main differences you’ll see in lay flat photo books is the type of paper that is used. This is what I’ve been calling “flex hinge” in the chart below. There’s a thin laminated hinge that is visible, but blends into the background. Here’s a close-up side view of the MyPublisher lay flat book which shows how the binding flexes. (UPDATE: MyPublisher closed as of May 2017).īelow is also a MyPublisher book but with the lay flat upgrade which typically adds $15 to $45 to the cost depending on the size of your book. This particular one is a Deluxe size photo book from MyPublisher. It’s like your garden variety book you may find on your bookshelf. Below, you can see the book’s pages do not lie flat and some of the image isn’t quite visible in the middle because of the way its bound. I frequently get questions emailed to me and posted on my Facebook fan page from newlyweds who want to make their own wedding albums so I hope this will help everyone navigate all the exciting choices out there.įirst of all if we’re talking about lay flat books, I should show you what a standard photo book looks like. Several more photo book companies have added lay flat products to their line ups since I first started this blog. With the fourth anniversary of this blog approaching, I thought it would be a good time to revisit lay flat books and compile an overview of what options are currently out there. About 10 wedding albums and tons of birthday, travel and baby photo books later…as they say, the rest is history. I thought there had to be other brides and grooms out there trying to navigate through the photo book mire and I decided to start this site. That’s how this blog began – the more I researched options for making my own wedding album, the more my head was swimming with all the information I was finding. Most of the lay flat beauties out there were marketed only to pros and for the obsessive DIY bride like me, that left just a few options. When I first started this blog four years ago, there were few photo book companies offering lay flat photo books for the average consumer.
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