By Anne Fox Nowadays, traditional photo albums have become a thing of the past. The recent advancements in the printing technology have enabled the creation of photo books that have a sleek and compact design. So now you do not have to carry those heavy hard bound traditional photo albums any longer. Photo book printing is inexpensive too. In a customized photo book you can have specific layouts or backgrounds for the photographs or perhaps add some special effects to the images to make them look just how you want. A custom-made photo book looks much like that of a children's picture book. The primary advantage of having a photo book is that you can add texts such as captions or perhaps the date and details of the location. Your photographs will stay just as new even after many years and you could be rest assured that the texts will not fade away with time. There are a variety of photo books available for various events like birthday, wedding ceremony, anniversary and ba...