Photobooks!
September 28th, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, we’re finally all set and Photo books are ready to be shipped off the presses. It has been an almost 1.5 year long road for us, from starting thinking about them to this day. We’ve tested over half a dozen different printers, totally redesigned Doodlepad, done endless testing on the product finishes and we’re finally sure that what we’re bringing is pretty much the best in terms of quality that can be done. As of now, following are the sizes and finishes
8"x8" Standard Square, starts @ Rs. 1399 for 20 pages (sides)
8"x10" Standard Landscape, starts @ Rs. 1499 for 20 pages (sides)
Both sizes available with the following specifications
- Hard cover
- Perfect binding
- 170gsm gloss paper with Satin-matte lamination.
Let me just run you through the process of designing photobooks real quick (most of you who’ve already used Doodlepad will be right at home)
Step 1. Select your size and other preferences
Step 2. Select your theme and the book will load up with blank placeholders
Step 3. Select the photos you want to add from the photos panel. You can also use your Flickr and Picasa photos directly from here
Step 4. Now just start dragging and dropping photos on to the placeholders. If you don’t even want to do that, just press auto fill and let Doodlepad fill up your photos across all pages
Step 5. Add your captions. Or add whole stories. Go wild!
Step 6. Voila! Your book is ready to be printed. You can flip through the pages in the preview. Make sure you haven’t missed out and left any pages blank.
Step 7. Take out your credit card and ka’ching! Sit back, relax and let us work the magic now. We promise to awe :)
So if you’re still wondering why you’d want a photobook at all, here are a few ideas. They’re great for keeping travelogues of your trips, complete with the photos you clicked on the way. You’re a budding photographer? then these are absolutely lovely for a printed portfolio that you can conveniently carry around. You’re a parent? how about a book of your kid’s birthday. Moms.. perhaps you’d want to do your own recipe book with all the sumptuous photos of your cooking! Not to mention the great Indian wedding lends itself particularly well to be captured in such books. Or maybe just your honeymoon. Well we could go on and on about the ideas. Also if you have a custom request, do not hesitate to contact us via our contact form here.
Feedback is very much awaited as always. Happy photobooking!
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14 Comments Add your own
1. Shikha | October 5th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
KEWL!!!!
Eagerly waiting for it….Hope its launched by Dec…Gr8 job guys!!!
2. Animesh | October 5th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
@Shikha this _was_ the post announcing the launch! So you can start right now, not december :)
3. Aditya | November 6th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Hi,
I was going to order a few large 12×18 prints from your website. However, this T&C allows you to use my pictures without my permission. This means that you can use my image as a stock photo?
By uploading photographs and any other images (”Photographs”) to itasveer, you grant itasveer and its services on http://www.itasveer.com, a limited, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, adapt, copy and display the photographs within the secure location set up for you on http://www.itasveer.com.
4. Protik | November 17th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Hi
I have my photos uploaded (all 40 gigs of them!) on Smugmug…would be a great help to me if you guys have a tie-up with them as you do with Flickr and Picasa. Its a pain to copy pics and upload them again on itasveer…
Can you tell me whether there is a possibility of that happening anytime soon?
5. Nishant | November 17th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
@Aditya We have revised our terms making things more clear now. It needed to be expressed more clearly and I think your concerns have been addressed now. Let me know if you need any further assistance.
6. Nishant | November 17th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
@Protik I’m afraid I don’t see the integration happening anytime soon. Reasons being, we’re busy with the ongoing festive season. Maybe you can find something to move some of your selected photos to Flickr/Picasa and then access them inside itasveer ;-)
7. Animesh | November 17th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
@Protik What a coincidence! Believe it or not, just today I was looking at the SmugMug API and wondering if there are any Smugmug users in India to warrant an integration. Will write to you separately later to discuss.
8. Radhika | February 24th, 2010 at 10:27 am
HI,
I have attempted about 6 times to get my order of a photobook fulfilled since last 2 days. 4 times out of that, the cc avenue website never reached my bank’s payment gateway. It just got stuck after I click submit on the billing details page. Twice when it did manage to go thru to the HDFC site, the payment did not make it thru and I got a transaction failed message when there is no reason for that to happen frm the banks side.
I have mailed CC avenue in vain but no response. I really wanted to send a baby photobook to the grandparents by next week but have already lost 2 days in this mess. I am now wishing that I had gone to some other photobook printing website, the only thing that had stopped me from doing so last 2 days was the fact that I had spent some time uploading snaps and creating that photobook on iTasveer.
As a last resort am publishing my complaint here (have also sent an email). My email id is mentioned here and one of the failed order number is 76492TI175922 .
Thanks,
Radhika
9. Animesh | February 24th, 2010 at 10:48 am
Hi Radhika
We’re really sorry about the bad experience, CCAvenue has been acting particularly flaky since the past couple of weeks. Apparently they’ve been undergoing some upgrades.
We’ll be getting back to you on email.
10. Radhika | February 24th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
HI Animesh,
I received an email from somebody called Ankit who told me that the transaction was indeed a failure and asked me to try again. Just wanted to let you know that the payment gateway is still not working. I am losing patience here, please let me know if this indeed is a problem that cannot be rectified and I will arrange to get my photobook printed elsewhere.
Thanks,
Radhika
11. Sandip | May 11th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
is this option up online?
Regards
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12. ketan | August 14th, 2011 at 4:19 am
I have placed 3 orders. one of them is still showing in-progress status while others 2 were shipped. i have sent numerous emails but no reply so far. Just wanted to see is there any way to get some kind of feedback.
13. Ashish | August 21st, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Hey Ketan, Are you writing to contact@itasveer.com? Hard to glean your order details from your comment. Can you post your order IDs?
14. Vamsi | December 22nd, 2011 at 11:56 am
From past two days we were not able to create photo book after selecting template
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