Pictage – Modern Book

For a few weeks now I’ve been looking for a coffee style, magazine, catalog kind of album to offer as a different treat for our bride and grooms. We offer at Paulo Basseto Photography an Italian handmade Fine art Book, from Graphi Studios and although they carry the coffee table looks with their silver metal cover and great metallic paper full spread prints, they are still a wedding album, big, heavy and expensive for you to offer as parents albums.

Pictage offers the “Modern Book”, which is exactly what I was looking for, and they offered for their members a free design free print album so we could try it. Free album and they will design it for free? Why not? let’s give it a try. Just got it and I would like to share with you guys a review about this amazing product they just delivered.

I took the time and put 50 images together from 6 different weddings to fit in this book. The images follows the chronological time of a wedding – preparation, ceremony, portraits, decoration and party time – but from different brides and grooms. I was trying to test their designer capabilities to realize my idea and see if they could put it together without any major changes.

It was amazing that in less then 24 hours they sent me a design. A clean and spot on one. The designers really caught the idea and put together an amazing work.

When I opened the box first thing I noticed was the quality of the prints. Pictage uses a Luster paper and have a great color spectrum, great feel (like a plastic coating on top of it, but not glossy, luster) and thick pages. Like a Catalog. It comes with a dust cover which is printed in the same quality of the paper used in the album. Usually when a dust cover comes with an album that means that the album cover itself is not printed. That’s not the case here. Pictage has the front and back cover printed just like the Dust cover, giving the user the option to remove this extra protection.

Another thing that I liked is that the only propaganda you get on the album is your logo in the back (both in the dust cover and in the album itself). In my case it’s my signature, and I really liked that. It looks very professional.

The album has a spine, I am not sure how you call this feature, but it always lays flat on the table, and the hinge in the middle is very small, so it doesn’t disrupt the felling of full spread images.

The turn around time was a little over 4 weeks including delivery. It’s a very good delivery time for the quality of the product.

Overall this is a 10 and it really covered my necessity. Now I have an album to offer as a parent album, which  is not expensive, not heavy and will follow the standards that we have at Paulo Basseto Photography.

Here is the album so you guys can check the design.

Lot’s of love!

Paulo.