Photo Book
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Melting Slicks
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Photo Book
I wanted to make a photo book that covered the beginning of my journey with my GS CE. I'm thinking others might have or want to do so and I thought I'd share a little experience.
I first did one with PastBook, which came out OK, but I was not thrilled with some of the photos, they came out too dark. They actually re-printed a copy for me for free, but the same story.
So I decided to try Adorama after hearing great things. Same photos, but man the quality is AWESOME. I'm thrilled with how it came out, the editing tools online are nice, just happy in every way.
So I thought I'd share, if you want to see how it looks, click the link, it will take you to their site where you can review the book. Enjoy!
http://www.adorapro.com/ken_115/book...y-2/b96vgfgbwg
I first did one with PastBook, which came out OK, but I was not thrilled with some of the photos, they came out too dark. They actually re-printed a copy for me for free, but the same story.
So I decided to try Adorama after hearing great things. Same photos, but man the quality is AWESOME. I'm thrilled with how it came out, the editing tools online are nice, just happy in every way.
So I thought I'd share, if you want to see how it looks, click the link, it will take you to their site where you can review the book. Enjoy!
http://www.adorapro.com/ken_115/book...y-2/b96vgfgbwg
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Melting Slicks
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I have to say, the quality of the pages is amazing. I picked the Luster finish, they are very thick pages....very nice.
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Melting Slicks
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I was worried about the two page layouts, thought it might not lay flat and look good. I'll shoot a pic of that page, it works well!
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Melting Slicks
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This is how the binding looks for the photo that spreads pages. You don't miss any of the picture because it opens flat.
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I'm confused could you please explain the additional expense-the taxes and trip could not approach this number-39.5% top federal bracket plus state tax maybe equals 46 or so % other than the trip to pick up what am I missing-as the trip could not be that much.
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Melting Slicks
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Trip not included.
Car MSRP is $89,030
Sales tax in KY = $4,929
Fed Tax Withheld = $20,536
Remaining CA sales tax = $1,900
First two ($25,465) was paid to drive it away from the museum. The CA fees were paid upon registration. Total = $27,365
You factor in travel expenses, gas driving back or transporting it (we drove obviously) and how much money you spend at the museum (that place is fun) and it adds up quickly. But just the taxes and fees get you pretty close to 1/3 the MSRP in this case. And the Fed taxes were just the withholding, it will go on my taxes as additional gross income so the rest will be worked out next year...
I didn't realize it going into the raffle of course and I'm not complaining, just wasn't a planned expense. It was not hard to convince my wife it was a good thing :-)
Car MSRP is $89,030
Sales tax in KY = $4,929
Fed Tax Withheld = $20,536
Remaining CA sales tax = $1,900
First two ($25,465) was paid to drive it away from the museum. The CA fees were paid upon registration. Total = $27,365
You factor in travel expenses, gas driving back or transporting it (we drove obviously) and how much money you spend at the museum (that place is fun) and it adds up quickly. But just the taxes and fees get you pretty close to 1/3 the MSRP in this case. And the Fed taxes were just the withholding, it will go on my taxes as additional gross income so the rest will be worked out next year...
I didn't realize it going into the raffle of course and I'm not complaining, just wasn't a planned expense. It was not hard to convince my wife it was a good thing :-)
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What a wonderful win and a great trip and the album is worth a 1000 words! However, I couldn't afford to win so will stop entering into these contests. Some of them give you $50k for taxes though so perhaps I'll just win those 
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Photobooks are here: https://www.adoramapix.com/app/products/photo-books/
It can almost be a little overwhelming because there are SOOO many options, templates, stickers, frames, etc. Take your time with it, try different things, sit on it for a couple days before you press order. I made changes, in fact I ordered a second book (costly mistake) because of some changes I wanted to make. I can say it is pretty much what you see is what you get....they do a good job defining page margins and you can have stuff bleed off the page (which I did in some cases).
It can almost be a little overwhelming because there are SOOO many options, templates, stickers, frames, etc. Take your time with it, try different things, sit on it for a couple days before you press order. I made changes, in fact I ordered a second book (costly mistake) because of some changes I wanted to make. I can say it is pretty much what you see is what you get....they do a good job defining page margins and you can have stuff bleed off the page (which I did in some cases).