How To Make A Real Hardcover Photo Book Using Lightroom And Blurb
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2020
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Great video Steve! Thanks for sharing how you made your photo books.
Great video Steve, I have been wanting to do a book of my wildlife images and now you have given me a kick start to get at it. Thanks, as usual your video and narration is top notch!!
That was an awesome tutorial Steve! I had no idea Lightroom had all these features built in.
Photo books are a great way of organizing and preserving your photos. I’ve done a dozen or more, mostly travel and family events. I’ve been very happy with Shutterfly which lets you create books without the intercession of Lightroom.
Fun to watch as always, something I will start applying to my photo pile. Better than having them sitting in an external hard drive box. Thanks to you and some other nature-friendly Vloggers I got going now too. Seven videos far and no, I don't mind the isolation and distancing, nature is loving it and so am I! Thank you Steve! (Last name is very Belgian and familiar)
Thank you for sharing your tips! Great video!
Great video! I didn’t even know that LR could do this - count this as one of the many useful features that I will have to explore. Thanks!
Great video Steve!! Had no idea that LR had this!!! Thanks for sharing!
wow.. just wow. great work.
Nice demo...I’ve made a few blurb books of RV trips such as Alaska, the Maritimes and of course the Teton/Yellowstone area. We always have a copy in our RV to share with fellow campers who want to learn about the places we’ve been or places on their bucket list. I make my RV version a bit smaller and with a soft cover. It fits better in our small RV and quite a bit cheaper than the large hard covered versions.
Thanks Steve! I constantly say that I want to do this but never get around to it. Your WTF video sparked me once again and this may well have put me over the top.
Thank you for sharing this! 👍👍👍👍👍
We have the same passion! Great!
Very informative vlog Steve, thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for Sharing! This is great information, Thanks again!
Great vlog Steve, well done. Stay safe.
Thanks Steve ..really useful
I have done a couple of Blurb books but have never done one for wildlife yet thanks for reminding me, a great thing to do on lockdown. If I remember it was a bit of a fiddle but not too bad
Definitely a bit of a fiddle. But not too bad😬
Great info!
Big Kudos to you for doing this. It's obvious that most you tube photographers don't have a clue what to do since they can't travel.
I travel a lot and take my camera a lot, so I'm stuck too. But let's not whine about it or pretend to be a commentator on extraneous stuff.
You kept to the subject and came up with a good video. I can do a few books, and now I know how to do it. I even stopped the video to open Lightroom, just to see if I had the book heading.
Thanks
Great video! I just went through the work of doing some research video on producing a photo book from a recent vacation. Apple used to use their own services to print books/cards/calendars etc. They stopped the printing of products sadly.
After a quick Google search, I used Mimeo Photos App that I found the Apple App Store. Next book I produce I will be trying out Blurb and using Lightroom. Looks much easier to use and move images/add images etc. Cheers!
Hi Steve, thanks for the video. I always do a photo book when I come back from safari. As others have said, a book is a nice way of getting away from the computer screen. Here in the UK, I have found Photobox good and not too expensive if you wait for their offers. Stay safe all.
Great video ! I’ve been using the Book module for a few years now and love it; I create at least two books a year. The only problem I have is with texting the captions - I set the font size to 12 and try to save it as the default but it doesn’t save it: it always reverts to its own default. Other than that, it’s a great marriage between LR and Blurb.
Thanks for your video, very nice! 🤓👍
Thank you 👍
This is awesome...and I am not one to use that word lightly! I made a book for my granddaughter and was very frustrated with the restraints of the company's formatting. Had no idea it could be done with Lightroom. I'm embarassed I never checked out that tab! Thanks so much!!
I enjoyed the video- thanks. When using LR for making the blurb book, can you choose a layflat book? Thanks.
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Thank you
Glad to see you use Blurb for creating books as well. Do you find you have to over-saturate the pictures a bit in order to have them out just right? Last time (which was a week ago) I found the pictures came out a bit desaturated than on my computer screen. Thanks.
I am a recent subscriber to your channel. I am enjoying the process of watching many of your earlier productions. I particularly appreciated this one about idling Lightroom and Blurb to create books. I did a number of books some years back, but stopped doing it when the book company I was using closed down the service after they were purchased by ShutterFly. You have inspired me to try again. We also live in the GYE, but closer to YNP than GTNP. I hope to try one of your private workshops in the future.
Supercool, thanks for watching 🙏
Hi Anthony should I soft proof my selected images before I go forward and create a Blurb book from LR? Thank you
I wonder if you can add text within the body of the book, or is it only just photos?
Oh thanks you answered my question lol.
nice
Can the publishing process be channeled from Photoshop instead of Lightroom?
Make books not war!! That's awesome!!
Fantastic thank you. Can you type in a text page and have Blurb sale them through Amazon for you ? For a personal photobook have you tried Adorama books they use actual photo paper.
Aside from my 'real' book Phantom of the North', I have only used this method for books. I've been happy with them so that's what I've stuck with.
Very cool, Steve. Thanks for doing this. Any tips on editing your images for print? I know a common issue is printed images turning out darker than they appear on screen. Would be a shame to order a book and have it filled with a bunch of dark(er) images. Thanks again.
I haven't had that experience. But make sure your monitor is properly calibrated.
I know the park is still closed?? Any chance you can get into the other public areas to do more of your signature wildlife/landscape images?
hopefully...
What size and format do you save pictures as? Thanks Steve looks like a great project to take on while staying at home!
You don't need to format them or save them at all. Lightroom takes care of all that for you when you upload to blurb.
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What's the minimum of photos you would reccomend? I'm not sure if maybe 20 to 30 photos would be safe ?
Great video, Steve. I’ve never even given the book module a second thought, but definitely thinking of making a photo book now. Out of interest, is there a particular print profile you need to use to make sure colour reproduction etc is accurate when they’re printed?
Thanks in advance.
Lightroom does all of that for you when you tell it to upload to blurb.
But make sure your monitor is calibrated of course.
Thank you, man, for the idea. Actually I am in the process of making one and doing that in photoshop is complicated. How about adding text to the book in lightroom?
Yes you can add text anywhere you'd like. I show in the video a couple of ways to do it.
@@SteveMattheis thanks!
Thanks, Steve, I've always shied away from the Book module in Lightroom. For years I have used Shutterfly, and their process is pretty much the same as you showed here. So, my question for you or other viewers is, how does the Blurb Book quality compare to Shutterfly which is less expensive?
Sorry I haven't used Shutterfly so I can't comment
I did 2 Blurb books , but both times I wasn't too happy . The images were too dark in many cases. So I stopped. But good for you if you are happy.It is a great thing to have it .It is a very helpful tutorial for those who would like to try it. Thank you for sharing.
Bummer about the dark images. Are you sure your monitor was properly calibrated?
@@SteveMattheis Yes, I have a new computer and it was calibrated by a professional. I did try another company called Mixbook, and I am very happy. Especially with the front cover material. It is very smooth to touch .
Cool👍 also make sure you calibrate the monitor at least monthly because they change over time
@@SteveMattheis Yes, I will. Thank you.
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If you edit your raw photos and save them on the computer as JPEGS, then later want to put them in a book using LR, can you bring the JPEGS back into LR to put them into a book....?
Or do you have to use RAW files, edit them in LR or PS, the right into the book?
Jpgs work just fine👍
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Not to get deep into the weeds, but how does one ensure that there is sufficient resolution so that those resized and blown up images don’t get too pixelated as to look bad? After all, this is a book and people will be right up on it do you typically need say 265 ppi to make pixelation disappear, right? I guess what i want to hear is thag the software up-rezzing the images behind the scene so they always look good. Yay or nay? Thanks.
Lightroom will tell you if it's upscaled with a warning sign
I've been taking lots of portraits of my girlfriends beagle over the last year. I wanted to make her a photo book. Couldn't have posted a better tutorial, someone is about to get a suprise birthday present.
Does it matter what format the photos are in? I would want both jpeg and tiff. I love the idea.
Lightroom takes care of uploading the images to blurb. You don't need to bother with any reformatting.
Great video. Slight clarification…this video is for Lightroom Classic, not Lightroom. If someone came to this video actually using Lightroom (non-Classic), the way to make a book there is to use a Lightroom “Connection” to Share photos to Blurb. (helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/using/save-share-photos.html#connections). This is a problem with how Adobe names things, not a problem with this video.
I have had the experience that photos, copy and photo captions will go away for no reason. Then the program will not recognize the photo to reinsert. At that point it must be reimported. I will say my process is spread over several days, maybe you should knock it out in an hour or two.
Hmmm I haven't had that problem before. But maybe make sure you click 'create saved book' before you quit Lightroom?
Sorry Steve, but Blurb sucks for the B&W images. I had one recently printed and it had magenta dominance in many photo, I complained to Blurb and they graciously promised to send me a new copy with no flaws. The second book had exactly the same problem with a different color dominance. I complained again and they told me this time that Blur does not have a dedicated printer for B&W photos, and they do it with a color printing, hence the color dominances, which is, of course, a lie. I print B&W images with my color Epson printer and it does not happen to me, unless I make some mistake. I asked them to refund me for the book, and never received a reply. So I keep warning people to NOT use Blurb for B&W images. Thank you for your very well done videos and contents.
Bummer, I sorry to hear that. My experience is that it hasn't been a problem. Have you found a printer that you're happy with?