Photobookmaker

Photobookmaker

Preamble

The digital era and smartphones has made large-scale photography and videomaking accessible to everyone. Thereby, creating and managing albums also consumes an exponentially increasing amount of time, making it difficult to manage. Not to mention the pre-sorting of photos, which is another major undertaking.

PhotobookMaker aims at making this task easier and bringing back the joy and conviviality into the center of photography.

Beyond this particular service, our company seeks to provide a global digital and service solution to handle large libraries of photos and videos.

Overview

PhotobookMaker is an online service for generating digital photo and video albums. An album is always produced in two forms, HTML and PDF.

The HTML format provides a smart way to view and share the album over internet or a private net.

The PDF enables to fully enjoy the album in a book format, which can be self-printed at home and printed by us.

At the moment, the printable albums which can be produced feature a classic profil :

  • a page divided into two columns of photos, up to 8 landscape photos per page.

  • double-sided

  • automatic, yet customizable page layout

The HTML albums are fully standalone and do not require an additional online service or subscription.

A set of related material services can also be supplied, either upstream for sorting and scanning of photos or downstream for printing and binding albums, installing home web servers.

The diagram below gives an overal picture of the proposed services. Further details can be found in the dedicated topic pages which are accessible via the above menu.

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Availability

An album is generated from the online editor:

  • a free trial editor is available to produce albums with a limited number of pictures and PDF is watermarked.

  • a full-fledged editor can be accessed indirectly via a donation to the free MountPilot product.

Restrictions

The editor does not enable yet to enter all configuration parameters the generator is already capable to manage, for example among others: the entering of a free preface text and defining zooms. The editor will be extended in the next version.

It is not possible to purchase directly a full access to the editor, only indirectly via a donation to the free MountPilot product.

A dedicated commercial version of the editor will of course be proposed in the short term.