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.
