Amateur Photographer Magazine

Ilford Photo Album Kit

Tuesday 11th August 2009

Barney Britton

Ilford Photo Album Kit £16.99
Dimensions: A4 (printable area)
Paper Weight: 200gsm
Software: Ilford Photo Album Kit (Windows only)



Online photobooks are very convenient, but if you've got an inkjet printer at home, why not make your own? The Photo Album Kit from Ilford contains everything you need to make your own high-quality wedding album, and comprises 15 sheets of Ilford Photo Glossy Paper, plus two translucent interleaves for the first and last pages and a hard leather-effect cover.

Creating the book is very easy with the supplied software, which actually looks a great deal like many of the programs I have used to create the online photobooks elsewhere in this article. The only difference is that in the final stage in the workflow the pages come out of your desktop printer, rather than being sent away to a remote lab.

You don't have to use the included layout software, though, and I found that with a little trial and error it is perfectly easy to create my own page layouts in Photoshop. More confident digital photographers (and Mac or Linux users) may prefer to take this approach from the beginning, since it allows much more flexibility of design.

Putting this album together is very easy indeed, although the paper is rather thin and the lack of interleaves between each print does carry the theoretical risk of degradation of the printed surface over time.

www.ilford.com

See our article on Making a wedding album for advice on making an album and our list of the top ten albums

(Prices correct at time of going to press AP issue dated 11 July 2009)

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