Originally Posted by
mollyeilis
I've done a book with an opening in the front, and I've done a book where the picture is printed on the cover. There's a difference in quality, in that in the year between the cover-opening one they started making them better than the printed-cover one, and my camera changed so the photos were better quality, but with that said, I like the look of the printed-cover one better.
BUT. Do I have it right that these are printed pictures (perhaps film pictures) that he's scanned and then you've put them onto your computer? If so, get a smaller book. I was making a (free) book elsewhere, and I wanted to make a big one, like 8x11 size, and most of my not-so-high resolution pictures would have been fuzzy and blurry in it. I had to get an 8x8 so the pictures would be small enough so their lower resolution would work in it. So if I understand your picture situation, go smaller than you might want to, because it would be a bummer to have fuzzy pictures, since scanned prints aren't going to have anywhere near as good a resolution as will be needed for big pictures. Probably. :)
Have fun!