I was offered the chance to test out an album by Saal Digital and after a lovely wedding in January I thought it would be an ideal way to showcase it, so quickly got to work designing it! Within a week it had arrived, just in time for a wedding fayre :)
The Professional Line books are the upper end of their photobooks, with the Professional Line XT being their top of the range, with "eXtra Thick pages). I was hoping to try the XT but unfortunately they only offered the other, thinner-page version.
The acrylic photo front is lovely, and I chose the unusual wood-look spine and back in slate (dark grey) as a change from the linen or leather covers that I already have. Once opened, the difference between this and my other more expensive albums became more apparent. The high end matt pages look fairly clear - maybe not as crisp as a semi-matt or gloss - but it is the thickness of the pages that worried me most. My usual albums have solid pages, but these thinner pages, whilst not as paper-thin as a magazine or a paperback book, are very thin card, so were not rigid at all and already warped - not what I would expect from a "professional" book. At just under £100, this is not a "cheap" album either, so I was hoping for better.
For home snaps brought to life as a real photo, they are worth investigating, but for me I wouldn't use them for weddings etc without checking out their XT range.
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| close-up of the "high end matt" print |
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| wood-like slate back |
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| acrylic front - shiny! |
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| wobbly pages |
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| print is pretty good! |
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| Acrylic Saal Professional Line book |
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