Boris, Blurb has a very good online Help system; the FAQ's have an extensive discussion on the color-balance question. As for sharpening, also see the FAQ's; IIRC you prepare the images as though you were preparing them for your own printer. As far as the file size is concerned, Blurb can compress (and to some extent it can enlarge) images to fit the chosen slot on the page. This makes me a bit nervous - I am not sure I want to let Blurb's book-printing software do a job that my image processing software is designed to do. What I have done, once I have decided which images will be which size, is to export the precise size from LR. But I have also done one book where I just exported small, medium, or large image files (according to their intended destination in smallish, medium, or largish slots on the page) and then let Blurb do the final adjustment. Much less work and the results were ok. But if you are using a format where every image is its own full page, then I would crop and export from LR in the precise pixel dimensions Blurb calls for.
stan On Aug 2, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > Hi! > > I have tried, I honestly did, local vendors, but even the recommended of them > do not cut it. So I decided I'd simply go and start working with Blurb. > Downloaded their app and I've few questions for those who produced Blurb > books: > > 1. How do you manage sharpness??? Any specific sharpening that you apply in > your post processing program such as LightRoom? > > 2. How do you make sure the colors are right? Presently my monitor is ICC > profiled with Spyder. Is it enough to simply export my images in sRGB with > this profile? Is there a profile published by Blurb that I'd need to use? > > 3. What about picture size? Does it absolutely have to be the size indicated > by the program for specific book size and layout? Or is it ok to have bigger > pictures? > > Thanks in advance. > > Boris-da-noob. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
