Digital scrapbook photobooks make it easy to share your favorite pictures with family and friends. You can even make one fairly inexpensively.
About Cheap Digital Scrapbook Photobooks
If you're currently a traditional paper scrapbooker, you may be wondering why digital scrapbook photobooks have suddenly become so popular. Essentially, these books offer the following advantages:
- Since they typically use a series of predefined templates, photobooks are a low-stress way for those with minimal computer skills to try experiment with digital scrapbooking.
- Digital scrapbook photobooks are a convenient way to preserve multiple photos from one special event, such as a wedding or the birth of a child.
- Ordering multiple copies of your creation is easy, so you can make a digital scrapbook photobook for everyone on your holiday gift list.
When compared to the costs associated with creating a layout from patterned paper, colored cardstock, and embellishments, digital scrapbook photobooks are a very economical way to preserve your memories. For additional savings, however, remember to check on sites such as Retail Me Not for coupon codes that can be used with your photobook purchase.
As an added benefit, most of the Web sites that sell digital scrapbook photobooks also let you order other personalized items as well. If you're making a custom photobook as a Christmas gift for your daughter, you can order a personalized mug for your nephew, a photo jewelry box for your mother, and a one-of-a-kind photo tie for your husband with just a few extra clicks.
Winkflash
If your top priority is finding cheap digital scrapbook photobooks, Winkflash is a great option. The company offers six styles of photobooks, and you have the option of choosing a one or two photo cover plus an optional title. There are plenty of design templates in various themes to help make your layouts look professional. Sizes range from 4 x 6 inches up to 12 x 12 inches, and all photobooks comes with a standard 20 pages. Additional pages are $1.25 each.
Prices for Winkflash digital photobooks start around $7.00 for a mini book with 20 pages. Shipping and handling fees are not included.
Snapfish
Snapfish, a subsidiary of hp, has photobook options ranging from tiny brag books to large 12x12 albums perfect for preserving several years worth of family memories. Layout templates are neatly organized by theme to make it easier for you to design the interior pages of your book quickly.
Snapfish photobooks start at $13.00 for a standard 5 x 7 book with 20 pages. Shipping and handling fees are not included.
Shutterfly
Of all the shops offering digital photobooks, Shutterfly seems to have made the most effort to meet the needs of scrapbookers. Books are available in sizes 8 x 8 through 11 x 14 with formats very familiar to traditional scrapbookers.
Prices for Shutterfly Custom Path digital photobooks vary. An 8x8 book starts around $15. Shipping and handling fees are not included.
Digital Savings Over Traditional Scrapbooking
No matter how much you pay to produce a digital scrapbook, chances are good it will be less expensive in the long run. When you consider how much it costs to purchase all the supplies for a single, traditional scrapbook page and multiply that cost for 20 pages, it's easy to see you can save a lot of money by going digital.
