Adobe and photos go hand in hand. We make the leading editing application, and Lightroom is a must have for any serious digital photographer. With Flex, developers have created some great web based photo editing tools, like Picnik and Adobe Photoshop Express. So it should come as no surprise that Albelli has created an AIR based photo book application, much like you can do with iPhoto on the Mac.

I'm a big fan of iPhoto books - I've ordered a few of them over the years for big trips and big events. Albelli's solution isn't as polished as Apple's, but its a good start. It has integration with all the major photo sharing sites, like Photobucket, Flickr, Picasa, and SmugMug, or you can drag and drop photos from your desktop into the application.

Once the photos have been selected, you can drag and drop them onto pages of your book, customizing the book with a theme, number of photos on the page and the number of pages in the book. The ordering process is done inside the application, and the costs are reasonable.

I don't know about the quality of the books, as I haven't ordered any, but I think applications like this have a lot of potential - users are willing to pay for physical products, and I love the integration with existing photo sharing sites.