Albumworks ships its book from a print facility in Malaysia, but this did not incur a foreign exchange fee on our purchase. The book's creation software is versatile and allows for custom layouts to be created easily. The standard book features 40 pages, a photocover, and text on the spine. Quality assessment rated its images as having good colour, but lacking detail in dark areas. The book's strength was very good, but the pages creased a little too easily.

Big W uses the photobook service provided by Fujifilm. Its standard book has a linen cover with a square cut-out, with paper, cover and binding that rated as good in our tests. Its image quality was rated as OK, with dark colours faring particularly well, but other colours were deemed to be too bright. The online creation tool is a bit restrictive, which means customised layouts can be hard to achieve. There is no text on the spine of the standard book.

Blurb's standard book is smaller in dimensions than the standard books from all the other services that we tested. It comes with a photo cover, allows text to be placed on the spine, and its editing tool can be used to create customised layouts. We rate its picture quality as good, but is paper quality, cover, and binding only rate OK.

Cahoot's standard book has a lower page count than most of the the other services we tested (16 pages). It offers a textured faux leather cover rather than a photo on the cover, and there is no option for text on the spine. The book's creation software allows for custom layouts to be created. We rate the image quality as OK due to it being a bit dark and grainy, but the paper quality, cover, and binding rate as very good.

Camerahouse's standard book has a photo cover and allows text to be placed on the spine. Its creation software is a little cumbersome to use and not as easy as others in the test, but nevertheless does allow for customised layouts to be created. We rate the picture quality, cover, book binding, and paper quality as good.

Clickonprint's standard book has a glossy finish and we were not able to place an image on it, even though we could place text on the spine. The standard page count is slightly more than usual at 24 pages. Its software allows for customised layouts. We rate its picture, cover, and binding quality as good, but its paper quality as excellent, due to it being heavy and difficult to crease.

Domayne uses the photobook service provided by Fujifilm. Its standard book has a linen cover with a square cut-out, with paper, cover and binding that rated as good in our tests. Its image quality was also good, with dark colours faring particularly well. The online creation tool is a bit restrictive, which means customised layouts can be hard to achieve. There is no text on the spine of the standard book. It was the most expensive of all the Fujifilm-based books.

Fabness is a service that replaced a few services that were present in our previous test: Eastmon, Mojo, and Photodeals. The overall quality of the book was good overall, with black colour reproduction being its best feature. Its creation software is versatile, but is presented in a small window that can make it frustrating to use.

Fotofast's standard book offers fewer pages (12) than most of the other services in this test. It comes with a matte black linen cover that has a die-cut window; text can not be printed on the spine. Its creation software is a little cumbersome to use and not as easy as others in the test. It allows for customised layouts to be created, but can not print full-bleed photos. We rate its picture quality as OK due to it being over-saturated and losing detail in dark areas. Its cover and binding were good, and its paper quality very good. This is the only book to feature a binder that allows for pages to potentially be removed and added to the book

Fujifilm's standard book has a linen cover with a square cut-out, with paper, cover and binding that rated as good in our tests. Its image quality was also good, with dark colours faring particularly well. The online creation tool is a bit restrictive, which means customised layouts can be hard to achieve. There is no text on the spine of the standard book. This photobook service is re-sold through numerous retailers, which all use the same creation interface and printing facilty, but with pricing that can vary.

Harvey Norman uses the photobook service provided by Fujifilm. Its standard book has a linen cover with a square cut-out, with paper, cover and binding that rated as good in our tests. Its image quality was also good, with dark colours faring particularly well. The online creation tool is a bit restrictive, which means customised layouts can be hard to achieve. There is no text on the spine of the standard book. It was the cheapest of all the Fujifilm-based books, but was on sale at the time of purchase.

Kmart's standard book allows you to place a photo on the cover, but we noticed that it did not print all the way to the edges and had uneven borders around it. The online tool for creating this book is not as easy to use as others, and our custom book layout was harder to create on this service compared to other services. The printed book's image quality rated as good due to its colour reproduction, and the paper quality, and book cover and binding also rated good. The book was strong overall, but it lost marks due to the way the cover was printed.

Mimeo's standard book offers not only a photo on the cover and the ability to place text on the spine, it also comes with a dust cover and a protective cardboard slip cover. It has a versatile online creation tool that allows for customised layouts to be created. Picture quality rated as good in our tests, with the paper quality getting a very good rating due to its resistance to creasing compared to other books. Be aware that this service will incur a foreign exchange fee.

Minibox uses the photobook service provided by Fujifilm subsidiary Whitechimage. Its standard book has a photocover and text can be placed on the spine. Paper, cover and binding quality rated as good in our tests. Its image quality was also good, with dark colours faring particularly well. The online creation tool is a bit restrictive, which means customised layouts can be hard to achieve.

Mixbook's standard book offers a photo on the cover and the ability to add text to the spine. Its book creation tool is intuitive and allows for customised layouts. We rate its picture quality as very good due to impressive overall colour reproduction and a vibrant look. Its paper quality, cover and binding were rated as good. A foreign exchange fee applied to this service.

Momento's standard book is offered with the fewest pages (10) compared to all the other books in this test. The cover has a textured faux leather solid colour rather than a photo, and text can't be placed on the spine. Its software allows for customised books to be created easily. We rate the book's image quality as very good, and its paper quality as excellent due to its thickness.

Officeworks uses the photobook service provided by Fujifilm. Its standard book has a linen cover with a square cut-out, with paper, cover and binding that rated as good in our tests. Its image quality was rated as OK, with dark colours faring particularly well, but overall image quality being a bit fuzzy purple-tinged. The online creation tool is a bit restrictive, which means customised layouts can be hard to achieve. There is no text on the spine of the standard book.

Photobook Australia ships its book from a print facility in Malaysia, and this will incurred a foreign exchange fee on our purchase. The book's creation software is versatile and allows for custom layouts to be created easily. The standard book features 40 pages, a photocover, and text on the spine. Quality assessment rated its images as having good colour. The book's strength was very good, but the pages creased a little too easily. A manufacturing blemish was noticed on the spine, where the cover was ripped and then a protective coating applied over the top of the rip.

Photobox's standard book offers 26 pages, a die-cut window on the cover instead of a photo, and text can not be added to the spine. Its creation tool allows for customised layouts. We rate its picture quality, paper quality, cover, and binding as good. This book arrived from France and a foreign exchange fee applied.

Shutterfly's standard book offers a photo on the cover, and text can be placed on the spine. Its creation tool allows for customised layouts. We rate its picture quality as good overall, but dark areas of images looked flat and had some loss of detail. We rated the paper quality as excellent due to it being heavy and not prone to creasing, but its cover and binding rated as good due to a staple being highly visible towards the rear of the book . A foreign exchange fee applied to this service, which sent its book from the United States.

Snapfish's standard book offers a photo on the cover and text on the spine. Its creation tool allows for custom layouts and is very easy to use. We rate its picture quality as OK due to it looking too light and also losing detail in shadowed areas. Paper quality was very good, but its cover and binding quality rated only OK due to the pages pulling away from the cover quite easily. We also noticed one of the corners of our test book was slightly crumpled. It was packaged in a cardboard envelope without packing along the edges of the book.

The Canvas Factory's standard book creation occurs in a normal Web page, with active page elements around the editing area. This makes it very easy to accidentally click out of your project. That, in addition to rigid editing features, means this service gets the lowest ease of use rating in our test. However, we rate its paper quality as excellent, and its cover and binding as good. It comes with a photocover, but without text on the spine.

Vistaprint's standard book comes with 24 pages, a photo on the cover, and allows for text to be placed on the spine. Its book creation tool offers very good versatility in terms of layout and customisation. We rate the book's image quality as good, its cover and binding as very good, and its paper as good, but we did notice that it creased a little too easily.