Preparing iPhotos for an iBook

Over the years I've tried to avoid photos uploaded to Apple for an iBook from being printed too darkly. In printing circles it's often called "press gain." In short, I'm just about ready to upload pictures for an iBook and I want to avoid getting back a book of pictures that come back darker, muddy, details lost etc. I'm working with iPhoto 9.6.6 on an iMac about a year old, my pictures are exposed properly with all necessary final tunes (when sent to a print making service like Mpix, the colors are clear and true, details are all there, and so on. Maybe there's a fix like adjusting saturation...or maybe there's a better book printing service out there. Appreciate your input.
deu

What is the color profile? The best to use for iPhoto is RGB. Adobe RGB often produces results that are too dark
As to best prep - iphoto is designed for amateurs using point and shoot or lower end DLSRs and is not a professional tool - the best results are when the minimum amount of adjusting and tweaking is done and it is best done using only iPhoto - see iPhoto: Five steps to great books, cards, and calendars - Apple Support - point 3 specifically - bottom line for iPhoto books - less is more
Better Print service - totally a personal opinion - for me (and most I suspect iphoto users) there is no better service - iphoto books printing is simple and straight forward - certainly there are other services and many people use and like them - lots are cheaper - probably some do more professional printing, but again that is a decision only you can make
LN
PS BTW - these are not iBooks - that is a totally different electronic animal - these are iphoto photo books
LN

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The situation has changed a little, our original photos are in RAW format and some of them are slightly over saturated in the higher tones.
I've read on other threads that it is a good idea to run the 'Enhance' tool on all photos before sending the iPhoto Book away.
Since iPhoto's 'Enhance' tools seems to do a lot of helpful things like sharpen, adjust the levels, etc it also seems to notch the contrast up and this would prove destructive for the lighter and darker tones not captured by the camera's dynamic range.
So as I've been advised it's best to use Apple's own tools before sending the iPhoto Book away, so I'm going to download the trial of Aperture.
Does anyone have any more recommendations on which monitor colour profile setting to use etc. I've also read that iPhoto prints best from JPEGS so the RAW will obviously need changed. Will Aperture automatically save to Profile name: Camera RGB Profile after I've done some editing there?
What would be the best way to prepare RAW images in aperture where some of them might need an Image Overlay in Photomatix then imported back to Aperture for printing an Apple/iPhoto style Book?
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In addition to albums and events, synced photos appear in a unified category called Photo Library (on iPad, this is the Photos tab). Photos are not duplicated. This category will also sort photos in ascending order by the date modified.
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