Custom Photo Books - Digital meets Craft   by Alex Winward

The 21st century must be laying a claim to becoming the Digital Age, with everything becoming almost exclusively digital. Your music, your phone calls, your images (hey - now they even want to digitise your DNA!) - in short all aspects of human interaction is broken into bits and stored on disks, transmitted by cable or radio, stored and copied, then copied again.

The result, of course, is some great new technology, but a lot of chaos. With the capture of images digitally being essentially free, and the storage on your disk drives being so large that you'll never fill it up, the chances are you are going to have folders full of precious, but ultimately useless, images. Your honeymoon, your child's first steps, that special moment with friends ... all lost in your hard disk, buried by the sheer quantity of stuff you have amassed.

We offer a way of making sense of those images, and giving you the chance to collate them into a book of your making. A Photo Book, where you choose the subject and the pictures. Some great ideas are: a Lifebook, where you collect pictures of an entire life of a loved one and array them in order, a Wedding book, a book devoted to a magical holiday, a child's year book - the scope is endless.

So, that's the digital bit sorted ... put your unused digital images to work! Now, for the Craft: We print your photos digitally using the best new technology, and then hand bind them. Properly. We want you to have a book to treasure, or a gift to give that will truly delight the recipient, and so we have unique quality features on our books that can only come from being handmade by craftsmen. Facets like Headbands to protect the spine, bookmark ribbon, personalised cover, spine text of your choice, presentation boxes and more.

We believe that the union of digital photography with the quality of handbinding gives us the best of both worlds with no compromise.

Drop by at www.custom-photo-books.com and start putting those pics to good use!

About the Author

Alex Winward is webmaster and production controller at http://www.custom-photo-books.com

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