Creating picture books

**Purpose** Create a picture book after a trip OR for a special event like milestone birthday**Service - [Blurb.com](http://blurb.com/)** Experience - Created ~ 5 books with Blurb. Quality of book - Is very good. Tools to build - Free software is flexible but very slow (example, inserting a photo) Cost - Good - $40-$100 Delivery time - 2 weeks (a little long) **Service - [Aperture using Apple.com](http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/print-products.html)** Experience - Created ~ 2 books with Blurb. Quality of book - Excellent Tools to build - Fewer templates but interface is faster. Requires a Mac and $75 Aperture software Cost - High - $40-$150 Delivery time - 1 weeks (as expected) **Workflow** 1. Use a tool to select photos to use 2. Find a way to sort the photos - Aperture used keywords 3. Create a book template in tool 4. Use Autoflow function to add all of the photos 5. Go back an modify captions, photo sizing **Tips** Doing selecting photos and page formats page by page can be agonizingly slow ***Alternatives*** CVS (tool and quality concerns), Lulu (tool concerns)