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This review is for the novice photo book creators. This was my first attempt at creating books since ten years ago. I’m posting because there was a pretty good learning curve and the results were quite good. I would post the books, but half of the photos are of my daughters and that is pretty boring. Up front, I was using an M11 Monochrom and a Zeiss Biogon 21mm f/4.5 ZM with a red filter and Voigtlander 35mm APO Lanthar with a yellow filter. Color was produced with the X2D and 38mm f/2.5 lens. So, I ordered two books. First was the color book. I worked in a managed color space and downloaded Blurbs printer profile. This immediately alerted me to the absolutely abymal CMYK color space, which destroyed much of the beautiful Hasselblad skin tones. I used Lightroom to select images and do the initial processing, but Photoshop was needed to show proofing of CMYK colors and make whatever adjustments that I might want. I then produced the book from within Lightroom. All images were sized and set to 300 dpi. So, the assembly of the book was quite easy. The CMYK proofing of the color images encouraged me to look for a company that used inkjet printers to produce images. I found MPix via my YouTube searches. My only hesitation was that they use seven ink printers, whereas a few pro labs use more colors, including multiple blacks. I, once again used profiles to display images in Lightroom Classic. The main thing that I noticed is that they suggested 100 Lumens vs 120 for the proofing screen. In any case, both albums looked exactly like my screen…actually the Blurb looked more vibrant than my screen, with less loss of the red skin tones… I uploaded sized images to MPIX and assemble went quickly. So, here are the differences between the two services.. at least per my orders. Blurb: Ordered on August 7th and received Album on the 17th…. MPIX: The evening of August 11th and received the Album on the morning of August 14th Blurb: 106 12”x12” pages / Pro Photo Paper Photo / Hardcover / $183.13 / Tax 411.16 / Ship $6.99 / Discount $54.94. Total: 146.35 MPix: 80 12”x12” Premier Custom pages / Semi Gloss Photo Paper / Hardcover Image / Layflat With $102.60 discount Total: $258.54 The Blurb book was a much better value and assembly/uploading ease was a tie. All other categories are in the MPix column. First, the Blurb colors were much better than I expected. The color comparison was much greater when comparing profiled and non profiled images side by side on two Adobe 1998 calibrated monitors. Sitting on my lap, the Blurb colors were acceptable. The MPix pages were much thicker and to my surprise, there was absolutely no color caste. Lastly, the lay flat nature of the MPix book that I ordered really made a huge difference in terms of presentation. The two page spreads were really spectacular. The images that I selected for the two page layouts really benefited from this presentation. Here is one of those images. This isn’t a great example, but my other images would not sufficiently compress to allow uploading here. I found a dozen images that I much preferred as 12”x24”. So, for me MPix was well worth the extra money spent. I would say that the advantage here is wider color space (obviously not this time around), heavier duty paper and faster turn-around time. I would not hesitate to use Blurb for my more casual family albums.