PrintingCenterUSA is #1 rated for Lookbook Printing. Create a stunning fashion, beauty, style, architecture or design lookbook to promote your fall, winter, spring, and summer product lines. Showcase your collections with vibrant full color images and use our free online photo book maker for an easy layout designing experience.
Let us help you put your company’s best foot forward with vibrant, full color 8.5” x 11” perfect bound lookbooks! We also offer other standard sizes plus custom sizes. Saddle Stitch is also a popular lookbook binding option. Satisfaction Guarantee!
Lookbook Binding
Our most popular softcover lookbooks are perfect bound or saddle-stitched flexible, heavier weight cover paper like a paperback book or catalog. They are much less expensive than hardcover lookbooks, making it a great option for seasonal product lines. We also offer Spiral and Wire-o bound.
File SpecificationsOur Most Popular Paper Options Are
Gloss paper has a shiny and lustrous smooth coated gloss finish. Excellent for making full color printing appear more vibrant.
Matte paper is a dull coated sheet that exhibits low gloss finish. Paper has minimal glare, making it easier to read text.
Uncoated paper is easy to write on and should be used in projects such as a workbook or coloring book.
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Lookbook Printing Resources:
How to get the Lookbook "Look" Why You Should Make an Apparel Catalog Best Photo Book Ideas 2020 Booklet Printing Basics 2020
The NYC and Los Angeles fashion industry have used lookbooks for years to showcase a brand’s look with great success. Now you can design your own look for any product, service, business, organization or industry and give your catalog, booklet, magazine, program, etc., the "Lookbook Look" with vibrant full color photos, pictures and images.
Fashion & Apparel Lookbooks
Lookbooks are a common seasonal print marketing tool for fashion and apparel companies.
Beauty Lookbooks
Showcase your line of beauty products with a full color, perfect bound beauty lookbook.
Handbag Lookbooks
Model your collection of handbags with a lookbook built to get customers excited to buy!
Home Décor Lookbooks
Lookbooks aren’t just for fashion! Show off your line of home décor products like plates, pictures frames, and more!
Accessory Lookbooks
Wallets, watches, eyeglasses and other accessories showcased in a professional lookbook will elevate your product to the next level.
Sports Apparel Lookbooks
Display fashionable sportswear for dressage, golf, tennis, and more with a sports apparel lookbook.
Architecture & Design Lookbooks
Architecture and design lookbooks are a popular way to put a design company’s best foot forward with a visually stunning portfolio.
Jewelry Lookbooks
Let your jewelry line shine in a perfect bound lookbook! Jewelry lookbooks are sure to get your target audience eager to purchase.
Lookbook Ideas & Examples
Lookbooks are a great way to promote fashion, beauty, jewelry, design, style, architecture and more. Large, compelling photographs will draw your potential customers in and make them eager to buy your products.
How are Lookbooks Used?
Lookbooks are a photographic showcase of a company's product line. Give lookbooks to your potential customers or clients like a business card or send lookbooks to your most valuable customers to get them excited for an upcoming collection. Physical lookbooks increase peoples' trust in your business and last much longer than digital marketing efforts.
Benefits
People print lookbooks because they are a fast, easy, and affordable way to display upcoming collections for architects, real estate, professional services, retail & sales, graphic designers, construction firms, health & beauty, music & arts, travel & tourism, manufacturers, technology and more.
Page Count
We require that any multi-page PDF files be sent as single page images, not spreads. In the files, page 1 should be the front cover and the last page should be the back cover (see left). Learn More
We require that any multi-page PDF files be sent as single page images, not spreads. In the files, page 1 should be the front cover and the last page should be the back cover (see left). Learn More
Color
Save your PDF in CMYK. Learn More
Resolution
PrintingCenterUSA recommends that the resolution of your images and document be 300 dpi or more. Learn More
Bleeds
Bleed is an extra 1/8” of image that extends beyond the trim area of your printed piece. The project is printed on an oversized sheet that is cut down to size with the appearance that the image is “bleeding” off the edge of the paper. Learn More
What is a Lookbook?
Lookbooks are a collection of photographs that are compiled to show off a model, style, photographer, clothing line, or other seasonal product lines. Traditionally lookbooks are used for the fashion and apparel industry, although cookbooks can be applied to all industries. They contain large, high-quality photographs, minimal text, and works to reinforce a brand or vibe of a product line.
How to Make a Lookbook?
With PrintingCenterUSA’s free photo book maker, designing a high-quality lookbook is fast, easy, and affordable. Once you have your images all you have to do is upload them and drag-and-drop them into our remade photo layout templates. Click here to get started on our online design tool.
How to Make a Lookbook PDF?
PrintingCenterUSA provides free downloadable templates If you prefer to make a lookbook in your own software. We offer these for InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Once you are done creating your file, all you have to do is export your file as a PDF and use our online pricing tool to upload your file and submit an order. For more information on how to save a file as a PDF, click on your software name: InDesign Photoshop , or Illustrator .
What Should be Included in a Lookbook?
Lookbooks should include large or full-page images, minimal text, and artistic imagery. Hiring a professional photographer to create your lookbook is a must! Your brands logo should be well represented in the cookbook. Make sure that it’s not overwhelming, but is shown enough that it is reinforced throughout your lookbook.
Please see our blog post 'How to Make a Lookbook' for more information.
Saddle stitch binding is the most inexpensive and simple to make, yet professional form of binding, which allows us to save you money. They also offer the fastest turn-around time. Saddle stitched is the most popular and ideal choice for self-cover booklets and calendars with smaller page counts between 8 and 92 pages. 
Perfect bound binding is the most popular type of soft cover binding. Perfect bound books are inexpensive to make and provide a durable, high quality attractive look that can’t be matched. Perfect binding is the ideal choice for publications with higher page counts (28 pages up to 2 inches thick), giving them a professional looking printable square spine. A paperback book or a phone book is a familiar example. 
Spiral binding uses a durable plastic coil which makes it an ideal option for every-day use as reference material. Spiral Bound Book Printing offers different coil sizes and diameters to accommodate a higher page count up to 2 3/4" thick. There is a fast turn-around time for very short spiral bound book production quantities. Manuals, Handbooks, and Guides are good examples of products well-suited for spiral binding. Available only in black coil. 
Wire-O binding is similar to Spiral binding. Wire-O binding uses a professional-looking looped metal wire which makes it an ideal option when the product is for a more formal setting, such as a presentation. Wire-O binding can accommodate a higher page count up to 1 ¼" thick. They may cost a little more. Available only in black standard wire. 
