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| (And now you decide to study them?) |
Google Photos has a new tab: Photo books. This allows you to get an album printed out and delivered to your door in hard copy as an exciting glossy photo album. I decided that such an album would make a nice memento of our recent trip to Egypt.
18 x 18 cm soft-cover book: £11.99 for 20 pages, £0.49 per add. page, up to 100 pages.I went for a soft-cover book of fifty photos. With one photo per page, this was fifty pages for around £12 + £15 = £27. Plus shipping.
23 x 23 cm hardcover book: £22.99 for 20 pages, £0.69 per add. page, up to 100 pages.
VAT included. Shipping not included.
Setting up the book in preview mode took about an hour. Google recommends photos (that AI working again!) from your selected album but you can delete some of those suggested and add others.
Each photo can be sized from small to page-filling - as you choose differently-sized versions Google auto-crops, which you may or may not like but you seem to be stuck with its choice (I could be wrong).
You can write an optional caption per photo - I didn't bother. Using drag and drop you can reorder photos.
After a week transiting from Germany, the album arrived this morning. Here's what it looked like.
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| The hedgehog is ours |
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| The cover: Karnak Temple in Luxor - Google's suggestion |
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| A delighted Clare shows internal pages: Cleopatra with her son (left) and a Temple picture |
The quality of the prints is very good, even the close-cropped ones where the program had warned that there might be blurring due to poor resolution.
So how is Claire (or you) progressing with understanding Egyptian Hieroglyphics? Definitely a fun sounding project!
ReplyDeleteI've been looking at some translation apps - apparently it's a known Hard Problem (symbol acquisition and delineation, grouping and context, disambiguation and noise, ...). Clare is doing it old-school but it's early days. She's on to biliterals.
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