tipped off by alf about this company (blurb booksmart) that takes your photos and prints them into a book, i've got another project to work on for my mexico photos. i'll probably wait to see what his (new zealand) book looks like before i order, but i would think that it will look pretty good. all the photos have to be converted to very square like dimensions (depending on the book you choose), or wide panoramas for two page spreads, but i should manage. the only problem is finding enough good photos (though i will have about 140 photos in my mexico gallery, nothing close to that amount are print-worthy). it may be a small book, but that's all right, if i'm paying, i should take quality over quantity. one good thing, alf mentioned that the booksmart app compresses your picture files before it uploads them to the server, meaning a potentially massive upload won't take as long as you'd think.
i've also pretty much decided to go with teds for my poster print, probably a 20"x32" printout of my holy light picture, that's a beast, i'll have to make sure that it looks good at that size before i go ahead (i know i pumped the brightness and contrast on that one), if not, i'll have to find another one or print smaller. i might ask about that soon, cos i want to have it hanging in my room soon. displaying photos online is cool and all, but sometimes you need some decorations for the real world.
pic taken from the blurb site.
#33 dtra (david tran)
I just looked at the size of all the photos that I included in my book and they added up to about 120MB... but my upload was under 40MB
alf
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6:09 9th-jul-2008
cool, i'm already halfway through, though my book is going to be full of uninteresting text and certainly not all pictures of full bleed, some just have to be 3:2 and i don't have enough megapixels to stretch across two pages. book design, i got no idea 
dtra
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19:19 9th-jul-2008
well, i uploaded and ordered my book (210mb down to 60mb), i got the imagewrap hard cover, there's a link to it on my home page, the first few pages don't look great, but i've already ordered it, so let's hope that it works out 
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dtra
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21:41 18th-jul-2008