thanks Stan. I'll have to find out what the others use LR or PS i thinks its a 50 50 split
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, I lied. Or at least I was a few years behind. > I just sat through a 75 minute video by Scott Kelby (I subscribe to his > stuff) on printing books from Lightroom CC. I then spent a few minutes in my > Lightroom 6.9 playing with book layouts etc. > The current LR, either version, seems much more flexible than what I > remembered from back a few versions ago when they first introduced the book > module. I now see no good reason not to use LR for your book layout. > Note that they have a link to Blurb, but you have the option of saving your > book as a PDF and I believe that other on-line print services can import a > PDF and go from there. So you are not stuck with Blurb if you prefer somebody > else. > > stan > >> On Mar 26, 2017, at 12:22 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> thanks all this gives me some ideas to float by the group at lunch >> Tuesday. I mentioned i did a blurb book about 7-8 years ago so that >> makes me the expert now.LOL >> >> Dave >> >> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Stanley Halpin >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I haven’t done a Blurb recently. >>> You can prepare and upload a Blurb book from within Lightroom. The process >>> seemed limiting and less flexible to me compared to using Blurb’s software >>> directly. >>> I never liked the Blurb utilization of text, always problems with paragraph >>> breaks and page breaks and reformatting the text when photos on the page >>> get moved or resized or even when the text is edited. They may have >>> improved it in the several generations since I used it. >>> Blurb on my Mac desktop I found to be very flexible. Quite easy to start >>> with one (many) of their page templates, then resize and rearrange to your >>> hearts content. >>> Once you upload the files you have x days (7?) within which to order a >>> first copy. So, do your preparations and wait for one of the emails that >>> seems to come every two or three days announcing their current deal. Upload >>> and purchase. >>> >>> stan >>> >>>> On Mar 26, 2017, at 10:34 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> 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 >>>> [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. >> >> >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> 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. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- 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.
