Amateur Photographer Magazine

Kodak Gallery Simon+Kabuki Wedding Album Review

Tuesday 11th August 2009

Barney Britton

Kodak Gallery Simon+Kabuki wedding album
£24.99 for leather cover and standard 20 pages; £19.99 for linen or matte cover)
Dimensions: 26x23cm
Paper weight: 200gsm Software: Kodak Gallery Upload Software (Windows only)

This is the cheapest service in the roundup, and I was attracted to the Kodak Gallery Simon+Kibuki wedding book because of its unusual design. The Simon+Kibuki range is new to Kodak's online photobook service, and comprises a wedding album and two baby albums, for a boy and girl respectively.

Designing the wedding book was easy, but only after I had overcome some teething problems with the Kodak Gallery software. I had to uninstall and reinstall the software several times and update my system repeatedly in order to convince it that I had the correct Macromedia Flash plug-in.

Once my images were successfully uploaded, the only serious barrier to creating a book with the Kodak interface is that there is no indication of which images from a gallery have been included in the book's layout. This means that if you want to extensively redesign the pages after using autofill, or start from scratch, you need to be very careful to avoid duplicating or omitting pictures from the layout.

My Kodak photobook arrived on the forth working day after I ordered it, and I am very impressed by both the binding and print quality. My pictures are bright and colourful, albeit a little on the warm side, but overall I am very pleased, especially given the relatively modest price of the service.

www.kodakgallery.co.uk

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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