Welcome to the 21st edition. 11/17/2007, updated 12/18/2007
Blurb Books .... Blurb?, .... yes, BLURB.
BLURB books will be great Christmas gifts.
How fortunate I was to see a Blurb book that a member of our camera club had made of her wedding and honeymoon photos. For years, besides putting selected photos on this website, I have been making 4 x 6 prints for many, many photo albums. Here are the covers of the three Blurb books I have made so far. (Click for a larger size.)
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Now you need to visit the Blurb Book site, a company in Seattle that makes it possilbe for us to "self-publish". www.blurb.com The quality of the reproductions of your photos will, of course, be determined by the quality of the images you upload to their site. I have been very pleased. You have a number of choices for the size of your book and whether you want a 'soft' cover or a' hard' cover - - go for the hard cover, it's printed on very nice glossy paper! There are plenty of styles from which to choose and a number of templates for the pages. You will work from downloaded FREE software to build your book. When you are finished you upload the whole project to Blurb. I cannot seem to find out from the company how large or small the file size should be. But if you try to put a too-small sized image into a template opening you get a warning. Before you even take the first step it is important, I think, to gather all the photos you will use into one folder on your desktop. Probably rename them as well, such as 'blurb001.jpg' 'blurb002.jpg' etc. A typical image that I used, to make sure it would look good in a 'full-bleed' page was 3264 x 2176, or 3888 x 2592 at 240 ppi. The file sizes were between 2 and 3 MB. (I haven't tested it, but I think you can get good results with smaller sizes.) You do not have to resize your photos to fit into the various smaller template openings. The instructions and FAQs are well done. E-Mail questions are answered! There is a good forum too.
Have you ever watched a webinar? Here's one that the Blurberati Blog has provided. The actual tutorial begins here .
Blurb Resources from Outback Photo:
Getting
Started with Blurb
"Bookmaking:
The Blurb Experience" a diary by Bettina and Uwe Steinmueller
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Fall Colors here near Leavenworth, WA were the 'best ever' - at least in the 26 years I have lived here. I was out shooting at least 14 different days! Besides putting many of the images on my site, making a Blurb book, I also made an executible file (.exe) with the same photos. The program for that is PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0 . I've put that .exe file onto the small size CDs and handed them out to friends. The file size was less than 200MB.
See Photoblog - issue 20. I'll be adding more colorfull photos soon. See my new Home Page with links to Fall Color's Photo Gallery and links for all the pages of the European Alps Photo tour with Travel Images.
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After gathering the information for the Resource Page for the Wenatchee,
WA camera club (Photography Association of Wenatchee - PAW) I've come to
the realization that the page is now too long and some entries don't go
into enough detail.
PAW Resource Page
I'll have a chance here to tell more about my personal involvement with photography. If you haven't visited my web site "Eleanor's Travels", here's the HOME PAGE.