Have you tried conversing with LULU about your issues?
A few people that I know that have issues with online printers have gotten
mostly positive replies fromn them - like a redo, free book etc.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "ann sanfedele" <[email protected]>
Subject: You probably don't want to use Lulu photo book wizard....
sigh....
It seemed like such a good idea... but when I got the hard copy it was a
major disappointment....
What I saw was not what I got... and I went right back to making my new
wall calendar image pages totally
in Photoshop.
(1) I chose a "theme" that gave me, I thought, a solid black background
with a kinda nice "frame" to drop
the imges into... in print, it was an elaborate "nubby" two-tone
background with not enough border around the
photos , too. (2) The calendar grid had almost non-visible horizontal
grid lines making it extra hard for those of us who have
a hard time staying within the boxes do so
(3) the paper quality was mediocre - thinner by a lot than the cafe press
pages (not sure of exact weight)
(4) no place for captioning the photos
(5) It kept telling me I had to fill in a last page and it was blank...
but I didn't
(6) some of the pages were slightly creased... not all of them - so it
wasnt a packing error.
Lulu took away their old book making software so taht I can no longer
change anything already published -
not, as it happens, that I need to other than wanting to add an ISN
number.
The North America Naturally "day book" looked good - and without checking
on lulu first, I made a new one
in word they way I had done before, only making it only for 2010 and then
discovered I couldnt upload it.
(shudda checked first...sigh )
Anyway, I definitely don't recommend Lulu wizard for your self publishing
efforts with photos..
ann
http://annsan.smugmug.com
http://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff
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