The photo book of Digital Hall It is a very pleasant confirmation of the quality and reliability of the German company, which I now always choose to accompany my work.
In this case I wanted to print the most significant images of my trip to Poland, to have a living, papery, indelible story of all the emotions I experienced in such a landfar and beautiful.
What pleasantly impressed me, and is the reason why I am writing this review, is the simplicity in the creation of the product. But let's start from the basics:
Easy to make
The program, freely downloadable from their website through this address, is available for Mac and PC. Installation is very fast and a lot simple and the graphical interface, compared to similar software from various competing websites, I found it pleasant to use and more up-to-date. It also works well for the iMac Retina, which often makes less up-to-date programs suffer a lot. In any case, the large pixels are noticeable, due to a lower resolution of the interface.
The program interface is definitely comfortable and intuitive: just add the images in the workflow on the left and then drag the photos into the boxes. You can choose to make an automatic setting (so called “photo book in one minute“), which is nice in itself, or choose the completely manual setting.
As a professional I don't like automatic graphics with the possibility of inserting graphic effects such as fake frames, flowers or other such amenities, 80s stuff that is a bit boomer, but obviously for those who love the genre it is a plus to be able to exploit. Otherwise they will remain in the drawer.
If you want to manage the production phase from the first to the last millimetre, then Saal Digital offers all the raw files to work on. Click here.
It makes you look good
The quality of the book is excellentThe weight of the paper is excellent and gives a solid, pleasant and pleasant feeling to the touch. Also the colors are bright and shiny. And to think that I selected the cheapest option for construction!
On a technical level, the layout of printing and the crop margins have been respected to perfection. This means that you won’t find any severed heads or misplaced details in your photos. That’s pretty cool.
But let's get to the price, without a doubt the strong point of the offer: a photo book can be created starting from 20 euros, an extremely competitive figure that, in the economic offer for a job, can certainly allow you to make a lower price. An attention that your customers will surely appreciate! Payment is made via PayPal. Holy thing.
I paid exactly 42 euros for the book in question, which has 40 A4 pages.
Lastly, it is worth highlighting the speed in deliveries: I ordered the photo book on January 9th and it arrived at my home on the 13th, shipped from Germany.
Just be careful with productions during the holiday: in that case you can wait up to two weeks. It happened to me with the order of calendars, which arrived even after New Year's Eve. I ordered 15 in a first round and another 15 on December 21st, which arrived exactly on January 3rd.
Warning: to remove the small QR code, so have a publication perfectly clean from any foreign element, you have to pay about 5 euros. No big deal, in my case it had no relevance. It does not bother me at all.
In any case, Saal Digital is and will be for a long time my main supplier of paper printing services. After all, there is nothing to be done: we can take the most beautiful digital photographs in the world, but the true emotion, the human one, deep and tangible, can only be given by the colors printed on a sheet of paper or on a canvas.
-Federico Quagliuolo
