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Create your book

Two steps, and the book is ours to make.

Share the photographs in one album, tell us how you would like the book made, and we take it from there — edit, layout, proof, print and delivery.

Accounts, your own editor and AI layout are on the way. For now a person does this, which is slower and, for the moment, better.

Step one

Put the photographs in one album, and send us the link.

The editor where you build the book yourself is coming. Until it does, we do the work for you — and all we need to start is one shared album. It takes about five minutes on a phone.

Google Photos

Android, iPhone or the web

  1. Open Google Photos and go to Collections, then Albums.
  2. Tap New album, give it a name — the trip and the year works well.
  3. Add every photo you would like considered. More than you need is right.
  4. Open the album, tap Share, then Create link.
  5. Tap Copy and paste the link into the form below.

Apple Photos

iPhone, iPad or Mac

  1. Open Photos and go to Albums, then tap the + and choose New Shared Album.
  2. Name it and add your photos to it.
  3. Open the album, tap the people icon, then turn on Public Website.
  4. Tap Share Link and copy the iCloud link.
  5. Paste that link into the form below.

Before you paste the link

  • Open the link in a private window first. If it asks you to sign in, the album is not shared yet.
  • Leave the album up until your book is delivered — we come back to it during proofing.
  • Send the originals, not screenshots or re-saved copies. Resolution is what limits how large a photo can print.
  • We open the album only to build your book, and we delete our working copies thirty days after it ships.

Links accepted from: photos.app.goo.gl, photos.google.com, drive.google.com, share.icloud.com, icloud.com, www.icloud.com

  1. You share the album

    One link, containing everything you would like us to look at. Nothing to upload, nothing to compress. You pay by M-Pesa when you order.

  2. We design the book

    We edit the set down, sequence it, correct colour and exposure for paper, and lay out every spread.

  3. You approve the proof

    A digital proof reaches you within two working days. Two rounds of changes are included, and nothing goes to press until you say so.

  4. We print and deliver

    Printed, hand-bound and delivered anywhere in Kenya within seven working days of approval.

Step two

Tell us what to make.

Every choice is confirmed again on the proof, and two rounds of changes are included — nothing is printed until you say so.

What kind of book is this?

Book type

Choose your cover

The difference between the two is the front cover. What is inside is built to the same standard either way.

Cover collection

Pick your destination

Illustrated landmark covers, one family per city. Choose where you were, then how it should look. These are working templates — the finished artwork is hand-drawn, and we add cities as we draw them.

Destination

Showing the most popular. 9 more.

Cover style for Nairobi

Length, finish and copies

Pages
Paper finish

For 24 pages, put about 100 photos in the album.

Roughly 60 of them will be printed. The extra ones are what make the edit good — send anything you are unsure about and let us decide. More than 180 slows us down without improving the book.

Your album link

The shared link you created above. We check that it opens before we start.

Cover wording

Leave these empty and we set the city and the year for you.

Where we send it