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Has anyone used Pikto for making photobooks ? I am having a heck of a time loading pictures into their software . All the pictures are 8 bit tiffs which they say will work Thanks
Rob

I have tried them years ago when I still didn't know about printer color profiles and such. I ended up disappointed as my pictures came underexposed since I did not calibrate my monitor. Make sure you ask them about this so that your expectations are met

The software is only as good as the processing speed on your computer -- and working with TIFFS is going to demand a LOT of processing speed! I had excellent results with them doing a photo book for my wedding images. But I was working with all Jpegs supplied by our photographer. The system was a tad slow once I got all the images loaded, but I got it all done within reasonable amount of time. Now I am working with a newer Quad core laptop -- probably going to take way less time.

You don't necessarily have to use their software either -- you can download templates and compose all of your pages in photoshop or illustrator.

I've only tried photobooks with Black's. I have calibrated monitor, so it turned out the way I wanted. The only downside was time to get it printed. Took more than a week! Never going back to Black's for that... sorry Tyler

As for Tiff files, you don't really need them in Tiff to send to printing, you can convert to 90% or 100% Jpeg and it will be enough, as long as you don't re-save them after editing again

Then you won't be going to Pikto either -- as the turn around for a photo book is roughly 7 days as well.

Thanks for the replies . I managed to get in touch with them on Sat. and they said to use jpegs because the program can't really handle tiffs even though their website says it can . If I have to use jpegs then I can just get the book printed through Apple for half the price of Pikto .
Thanks
Rob

I just have to say ... even using Jpegs for Pikto's books --- the quality is really good as long as you are starting with good quality jpegs. But then again, the cost is a bit on the high side compared to blurb or apple.