![]() So, I think I’ll save this method for special projects!Įach book is about 300 pages or so, and only cost me between $80-90 each! I did have a coupon for them on sale, but before the sale they were about $115 each, which is still pretty reasonable! I love the hard cover with the image on them, because it’s sturdy and it just looks sooo beautiful! This has been a huge project of mine this winter! I *almost* was converted to just doing these books instead of scrapbooks, but then I realized that I had collected some things throughout 2018 to put into a scrapbook and now I can’t, haha. So, I recently made the 2018 family book, and then I made a book for all of Lily’s A Day in the Life installments to get those caught up! Once I finish my 2017 scrapbook I’ll be 100% caught up with ALLL family photos, including our phone photos! ![]() Lily and I LOVE to look through all of our photos together! I try to keep as many photo books as accessible as possible for her to grab whenever she feels like it! It’s seriously the best, and such a great motivator for keeping up with printing my photos! THEN I used Bookwright to add text to various pages! So I used Fundy to actually design my layouts, and then imported those into Bookwright. This may be because I’m a wedding photographer and am used to designing wedding albums. So, I dug into Blurb for making my own family photo book for 2018, and I am IN LOVE with the book! However, my only issue with Blurb is that I don’t like the layouts they offer with their designer (Bookwright). Last year with the move and then a CRAZY busy wedding season, scrapbooking just fell by the wayside. I’m still working on my scrapbook for 2017, and now that it’s 2019, the thought of doing a scrapbook for 2018 before getting to this year was too much. But this past year or so I’ve fallen really behind and I was starting to feel overwhelmed. If you’ve been with me for a while now, you know how much I fiercely advocate for printing your photos! I do a family scrapbook each and every year. The printing quality is vastly superior.Friends, I tried something new recently and I want the whole world to know all about it – Blurb photo books! Otherwise, I would have chosen CeWe (not sure in which countries this service is available). ![]() Bookwright is the only software provided by a printing service that allows the text to flow over multiple pages and to automatically adjust if you make changes. My book has a lot of text (many pages) coming along with the photos. I elected to work with Blurb for only one reason. I know people who ordered from France and received the book(s) from the US or even from China. Each time, I had to pay 9 euros to my bank for "international payment" although the book was allegedly printed in the Netherlands (I ordered from France). I ordered 10 copies of my book and then 20 copies afterwards. Depending on the country in which your book is printed, additional costs may appear on your credit card (international payment, custom taxes.). Personally, I recently printed a book with Blurb and the result was acceptable (not top notch, though - CeWe are better).ĥ. In which case the result might be unacceptable and involve requesting a reprint. All subcontractors work with a unique standard ICC profile that they have to abide with (you can dowbload this profile and do some soft proofing against it). You don't even know in which country your book will be printed. ![]() I said "usually" because Blurb delegates printing to subcontractors. ![]() I think that you'll find similar opinions about this problem. So, you have to be confident that what you see in Bookwright is not what you'll get. Don't even try to ask the Blurb support about this issue, they won't even understand your question. It's just uncomfortable to work with these ugly images. So you have to check your images outside of Bookwright in a color managed viewer (or in Lightroom itself - if the exported image looks OK in LR, it should be OK in the printed book). But the print will usually be correct (see #4, though). In that case, the colors displayed in Bookwright will be oversaturated. So, the colors you are seeing in Bookwright are not the colors that will eventually be printed, especially if you have a wide gamut display. Moreover, it absolutely ignores your display profile. Surpringly enough, Bookwright is not color managed. In Bookwright you can easily import photos from the Lightroom catalog.ģ. You'll benefit from much more editing features when using Bookwright, no doubt.Ģ. ![]()
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