Picaboo (http://www.picaboo.com), the popular photo book provider, announced today that precious school-year photos tossed into shoeboxes or abandoned on hard-drives can be graduated smartly to a photo book for gift-giving or posterity.

Wrapping up the school-year in photos can be done beautifully in a photo book for as little as $9.99. Budget-minded consumers will also appreciate that through June 30, 2009, Picaboo is offering a Buy One Photo Book Get One Free special*. In addition to being easy on the pocketbook, making photo books with Picaboo is fast. Busy parents may opt to utilize the auto-create feature that allows rapid photo book creation, often in a matter of minutes.

Photo Books Made Simple
To help pique creativity and set direction for topical photo books, Picaboo offers advice and sample albums within its Idea Center (http://www.picaboo.com/ideacenter/). Relevant topics like Graduation and School Years can be found here. Customers can tap hundreds of page layouts, thousands of page backgrounds, numerous fonts and text colors – for a highly customized photo book.

Photo book pricing starts at just $9.99 and shipping is additional. Once made, Picaboo photo books can also be easily shared online free of charge. In order to secure the most affordable photo book shipping, U.S. customers should allow 3-5 business days for ground shipping, while also allowing 3-5 business days for photo book production.

*Use coupon code JUNEGF at checkout. Buy any qualifying photo book(s) and get one of the exact same photo book(s) for free when the coupon is applied (for example, order one Large Classic book, get a second copy of the same Large Classic book for free). The cost of the free book(s), including extra pages, will be deducted from your order total. All Classic, Classic Leather, Classic Custom, and Regency photo books are eligible for this offer. The discount does not apply to taxes or shipping fees. Coupon does not apply to additional shipping costs for the free book(s). Coupon expires June 30, 2009 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Time). Valid for US and Canadian customers only. Cannot be combined with any other coupon or offer. Picaboo reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of this offer without notice.

Don’t you just love those smug Mac users talking about how easy it was for them to create a photobook of their latest vacation and how they did it in like, “2 minutes; that’s it!”? I know, you secretly wished you had a Mac so you too could be sporting on the iPhoto but you’re stuck with a PC. Well, don’t worry, ’cause you don’t have to wait an eternity for Microsoft to make a good iPhone clone because Rocketlife did it for them.

Rocketlife is an online photo processor that lets you make calendars, cups, posters, and, yes, photobooks. With just some of your photos, Internet Explorer, a broadband connection, and some creativity, Rocketlife is going to set you up with one sweet photobook…in just minutes. Now you can be like our reviewer, Rebecca, and take your sweet time to nail down that awesome custom look if you want, but it’s not required. Either way, Rocketlife offers a pretty impressive option to iPhoto-wishing PC users to use. Take a look at Rebecca had to say in her review. You may never look at iPhoto again!

Peleman Industries, the leading binding, laminating, and presentation system company, announced today their retail partnership with the NY-based leading photo specialty retailer, Adorama. Available immediately, Adorama will now carry the Unibind PhotoBook Creator, the first low-cost do-it-yourself complete photo binding system for consumers and professional photographers. PhotoBook Creator makes it easy to create instant hard-cover 8½” x 11” personalized photo albums in only a few seconds.

Peleman’s partnership with Adorama represents an expansion for Peleman into the professional and prosumer photography markets. PhotoBook Creator is currently available primarily through consumer and scrapbooking retailers and online sites, such as consumer electronics company Bestbuy.com, superstore Target.com, xPedx retail paper stores, Studio D technology and learning stores, and digital color output company Lexjet.com.

Winner of the PMA DIMA Innovation Award and other awards and accolades, Photobook Creator lets photographers and consumers design professionally-bound wedding and other photo albums in only a few seconds. For a minimal cost, photo books can be made for friends and family for gifts that will be cherished for a lifetime. PhotoBook Creator also makes perfect photo albums for birthdays, graduations, vacations, baby showers, party mementos, and scrapbooking. Priced at only $99.99 SRP, PhotoBook Creator creates a perfectly bound hardcover book of up to 220 pages in a variety of colors and finishes. Pre-manufactured hardback covers are available with a window allowing the first photo to be viewed through the cover.

“We are excited to announce our new partnership with Adorama. Adorama will bring our Photo Book technology to professional photographers and consumers through a respected retailer that can be trusted to carry only quality items,” said Brigitte Peleman, CEO, Pelaman Industries, Inc.

Unibind PhotoBook Creator is available immediately from Adorama.com and the Adorama retail location in New York City, NY priced at $99 SRP. It includes the PhotoBook Creator binding machine, 1 hardcover PhotoBook, and software to layout pages. Additional covers are also available for purchase. For more information on the PhotoBook Creator, see its website at: http://www.myphotobookcreator.com.