Softcover Photo Book

Archival-Paper

38 interior pages printed on 100%
recycled paper with a luster finish.

Customizable Cover

Multiple designs to choose from!

Binding

Perfectly bound—no glue,
staples, or stitching

Flexible Layouts

Choose a different layout for each page. Print up to 228 photos

Print Like a Pro

Great for high-res photos

Don't take our word for it

What real customers have to say about our Softcover Photo Books

"Hello my ten books arrived so excited ran out in the snow to the UPS truck. I am very happy with how they turned out. Thank you for your excellent correspondence and setting things right with me. Thank you so much "

- Lauren Paradise

"I have been using Social Print Studio from the beginning, and have continued to be impressed with the ease of the app, product offerings, and customer service. Not to mention, my prints always turn out beautiful! I use the soft cover books, and now metal ornaments, as holiday gifts for the grandparents. Their prints are high quality, fun, and truly one-of-a-kind. Thanks SPS!"

- katieockunzzi

"Just awesome. Super user-friendly, gorgeous products (the hardcover books, softcover books, framed prints -- they're all great), and excellent customer service."

- EHEC

"i've used social print studio a jillion times (7 total, actually) and i have loved them every time. firstly, every email and every communication from them is dreamy and delightful and friendly and fun. the products are always beautiful and arrive quickly. i've given them as gifts, and delighted in seeing my friends and family's faces light up with joy. i cant recommend SPS more-- theyre the best of all the social printers and ive tried to use others and always go back bc SPS really is the best!"

- Valentina Monte

Your prints on the @socialprintstudio Instagram

We love seeing what you do with your Softcover Photo Book. Tag us at @socialprintstudio.

Softcover Photo Books have a lovely zine-like quality and are beloved by all ages, as shown by @paigegeffken.

Preserve your travel memories like @heartfelt_traveller did and choose from a variety of cover options.

Softcover Photo Book FAQ

Product details

Finally, your teenage fantasies of creating your own zine have come true! Softcover Photobooks offer a classic 8x10” (20.3x25.4 cm) size and boast full-bleed pages printed on 100% recycled 118 gsm FSC-certified photo-paper. The 38 pages are perfectly bound, meaning they are bound with no glue, staples, or stitching. Perfect as a portfolio, brochure, or gift for a very special someone.

I’m a photo book newbie. How do I print a Softcover Photobook?

For a simple tutorial on how to print your first Softcover Photobook, check out our how-to guide here. Our tutorial will guide you through possible layouts, photo counts, re-arranging, and captions so when you are ready to place your order you will already be a pro!

Ordering Tips

If you are using the app, please only use English characters for your titles and captions on your Softcover Photobook. Emojis or non-English characters will not print. All characters will print in photobooks made using the website.

We cannot save photobook projects as you go, and we recommend uploading, arranging, and checking out with your book right away. Browsers left open over multiple hours can refresh, and this may cause you to lose your work. We are working on a save feature, but this is a huge undertaking and will take some time.

If you do not have a ton of time to place your order (we all have things to do, we understand), we recommend creating a folder on your desktop for your project. When you have a few minutes, you can drag your photos for your book there. Once you have time, you can then upload all of your photos and rearrange them to your liking, as well as checkout.

A Note on Cropping

Our Softcover Photobooks features pages and cover options that can be chosen to print full bleed. Due to the nature of full bleed printing and trimming, we recommend keeping all important subjects at least 0.25” from the edge shown on the cropping menu and print preview. Full bleed prints can be cropped up to an additional 0.25” from this preview so we recommend keeping all vital limbs, heads, and text away from these crop lines.

Can Instagram Photos be used for these books?

We don't recommend using older Instagram photos in our Softcover Photobooks. They will be printed with a large amount of white space around them because the image size is too small to be printed full bleed.

If you would like to print your older Instagram photos, there are some grid page options that have small enough grids to facilitate the smaller Instagram file size. We recommend these grid options for smaller social media photos as printing them full bleed can result in pixelated pages.

What happened to your old uploader?

This tech company got new tech! The new photo book maker is user friendly, allows you to print multiple photos per page, and avoids issues with larger Instagram photos. After many years of leaving the older photobook maker up and running, we no longer support it. The old uploader had old tech and we saw issues arising that led to orders failing. Give the new maker a whirl and if you have any suggestions on how to make it better, email us at hello@sps.io.