Q: Is there a price difference between a Matted Album and a Flush Mounted Storybook Album?

Quality flush mounted book albums are more expensive than matted albums. There are several reasons for this. Costs are higher for flush mounted book covers, pages, mounting, and binding, than they are for matted covers, album pages and mats. Most of the process involves hand made and hand assembled products. This craftsmanship costs more. Also, the professional lab prints are more expensive. The top notch album companies, which offer the highest quality products, also charge premium prices. The difference is evident, you get what you pay for!

There is a substantially higher amount of time and labor hours needed (twenty or more) for specialized image, layout and design in the creation of these special albums. The end result is a beautiful, totally unique book that has impact, and makes a powerful statement.

Q: Are these books the same as my high school yearbook?

High school yearbooks can have thin, flimsy pages that can be torn, wrinkled and damaged very easily. Storybook albums are created by using real photographic prints, printed directly from the original image file, which are then mounted flush onto the surface of a high quality, rigid photo page board. The prints actually become the pages.