Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/01
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I've done a couple of Blurb books, and had the kids in my high school photo
classes do them for the last two years as art projects. I haven't used
InDesign but I'm pretty sure you can go that way.
What I have my kids do is layout their entire page, type, background etc. in
Photoshop and then upload the flattened image as a full page bleed,
side-stepping the somewhat awkward Blurb templates. You just need to go to
Blurb's FAQ page to find out the recommended image sizes for the book size
you choose.
H.
--- On Sat, 11/1/08, PHC <lists@paulhardycarter.com> wrote:
> From: PHC <lists@paulhardycarter.com>
> Subject: [Leica] First Blurb book
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 6:15 AM
> So - finally settling down to put together my first Blurb
> book. I've got a new 24" iMac - it's just fab!
> - and I've had the pics for the book professionally
> scanned from neg.
>
> I know there are a number of folk in the Group who've
> produced Blurb books in the past, so I'm hoping
> you'll be patient with me if I ask stupid questions as I
> go along.
>
> The first question is: I understand I can use InDesign to
> produce the book and then send PDFs to Blurb. Has anyone
> tried this, or have you used the Blurb software? Is the
> Blurb software any good? Having spent years working with
> Quark on daily basis I'm quite comfortable with
> InDesign.
>
> First thing is I've been spotting and correcting the
> scans - they're all B&W, and all over 40Mb in size -
> and just loving the new computer. Wow this thing flies!
>
> Cheers, P.
>
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