Dave, I have a done a few Blurb books, but nothing as advanced as Mark. If you download the Blurb app for the Mac you can make your own page layout templates and customize it a lot. I never used Blurb's supplied templates except as a starting point. I created layouts with images and text on each page, some with full bleed, some that crossed the gutter, some with several images on a page. Easy-peasy. White backgrounds, black backgrounds.
You can make a Blurb book from Lightroom but I believe you are restricted pretty severely to their templates. If you want full control you need to use Adobe inDesign or other more advanced layout package. I _highly_ disrecommend trying to use Word, even if it can be done. That will take years off your life, if the Microsoft induced stress doesn't just kill you outright. When your book is ready to publish, go ahead and upload it to Blurb. There's no cost. Subscribe to their mailing list and you'll get discount offers several times per month. They have a constant stream of discounts for publishers. Also check into Lulu, a place I rediscovered lately. https://www.lulu.com/ On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:34 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all. A small local group i am part of "Thepassingshow". > http://www.thepassingshow.com/members wanted to do a book of local > pictures for Canada's 150th birthday this year. It was a big > undertaking as some of the organizers wanted to build a pro book > which would entail a great cost and order numbers. It has been scaled > back to a smaller less pro book and do something with shutterfly or > blurb or some such on line presence. We are having meeting Tuesday at > local pub to discuss this. I suppose my question would be to Mark and > Bill and who ever has done some blurb or shutterfly books on the > process. I did one blurb book many years ago for family but it was > pretty basic. > > -Do we need to use one of their themes or is there a way to build your > own theme for the book page like mark does with ours. > -Can we load the book up and wait till they have a discount offer or > is it best to prepare the book and wait till they have a discount week > then load it and buy it. Apparently shutterfly has 50% sales quite > often. > -For some reason I'm led to believe that the blurb app to use via Word > does not work or will not work on Word for mac is that correct. > > I'm sure i'll think of more questions after i hit send.:-) > > Dave > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
