Items needed for the Photo Book.  1)  style sheets, so that once I decide on a border and shadow I can use that style for every image quickly.  Check out InDesign or Quark style sheets  2) Custom designing was sooo slooow!! I work on a MAC everyday as a graphic designer and this was very time consuming.  3) Photos jumped around too easily even using the exact coordinates.  If I want the photo to start at 90 and be 180 tall then it should not move when I make it taller.  It should only expand in one direction, from the top not the center.  4) Custom number of pages is a must...I was forced to make the book 38 pages when I only needed 34.  5) need inches for the size of photos,  could not tell if my photos were 4x6 or not.  6) I could not pull guides into the page from the ruler to measure anything.  6)  need a trim line on the layout so we will know the trim.  7) asking us if we want photo correction AFTER we create our book....no, no. no....we should know what that means before we import our photos, and no where on the import section does it specify this...so I spent several days touching up my photo when I did not need to.  Or at least I do not think I needed to....I guess I will wait for the final book on this.  8) magnification bar needs to give us a percentage indicator.  If I shoot with a high resolution then I know I can enlarge photos but your zoom bar does not give a percentage so i do not know how large I can make my photo accurately.  I tried Shutterfly and was very disappointed with the quality of the final product.  i hope you will do better!!

Yes, Slow application performance, and workflow, NOT connection speed, I have a fast cable network.  Slow also because the photos imported could not be quickly listed in the order taken so I had to scroll much too often and could not see the whole name of a photo.  Yes, the zooming/cropping bar...if I could see that the photo was magnified 20% or 50% then I would know if my resolution was workable or not.  Also, I wanted to copy certain left-hand layouts with photos and type to a right-hand page but could only select everything on the whole spread.  Need a bounding box selector that allows me to decide what I want to copy or a way to group items so they can be duplicated and moved easily.  If you are not familiar with InDesign or Quark MASTER pages then check them out.  It is sort of like letting us design our own templates.  Your template selection was VERY limited.  I would love to design some for you...any job opportunity here?

The idea of offering a photo book palette online is excellent. And you have many great features. However, the process involves too many steps, the uploads are awkward and time consuming to deal with, and the whole book software slows down when the book reaches about 70% full...sometimes even freezing, and requiring a re-boot.  In order of preference, here are my suggestions:

See if you can eliminate some steps.  Why do we need to lay in a gray photo background for each type of layout. Isn't there a way to design it s one can just drag the photo into a page or spread and resize it.  Having to a) format the page background color, b) Format the photo backgroound, c) drag in the photo, d) resize it, and undo it all if the photo doesn't fit is way too time consuming. I think I spent 40 hours creating the last book, and I had done four before that.  The uploading process is awkward, time consuming, and as someone else mentioned, one should be able to keep the order they were uploaded in so one can organize the book in advance.  You do have a auto load feature. But if it were flexible enough to "read" the photos that are pre-ordered, and lay in all the backgrounds automoatically to match the photo size (and format chosen), this would save days of work. 

I would like to echo Quin's sentiments.  I've been playing with your editor for about an hour and a half and I want to shoot myself.  I suppose if I just wanted a cutesy album for a kid's birthday party this would be fine, but for any kind of design work this is not a viable solution.

I am going to design everything in either Photoshop or In-Design, but I'm worried about how the text will come out.  Also, your information on bleeds seems, shall we say, less than precise. 

I was excited to create a family history album. I have hundreds of old photos. First, I don't know how many pages I need. Second, the don't want to use predetermined photo sizes. Whoever designed your photo layouts should have gathered old photos. Most old photos are vertical. I didn't seem to have the option to re-size my photos to exactly what a I wanted. I wish the family tree backgrounds were available in the other type photo books. Give a bunch of us genealogists the chance to help you design a great family tree album. I emailed my questions to Adorama and got NO response. It was so disappointing.

the calendar template is clunky. You should be able to reapply a new template to an existing calendar instead of needing to start over; and go in and modify an old calendar to create a new calendar.

I believe I started with the Contemporary and wanted to change to Modern in the middle. it would be nice to be able to apply a different template to your calendar without everything being switched around. Is "autofill" a default setting? Also, it would be nice to go back and edit a calendar later with some modifications, to be able to customize for different people.

Thanks. Quality on the printout looks great. the website indicated an earlier delivery time however for Christmas.

oh, and i was getting a lot of server error messages while i was making the calendar, and lost work along the way.

I would also like to see some features. As such, the ability to change a photograph from being square to a crop of a circle would be great. I had done an album where I had a few pictures that were already circle shaped and had to have them with a square background. Is this a possibility?