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| DragonSpeed PRO Thu 4th Sep 2008 16:43
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Has anyone made a book with "Blurb"?
We're looking into it for our Venturer expedition that we just did. Something for the kids to keep at home as a concrete memory.
http://www.blurb.com/
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| PhotoPro PRO Thu 4th Sep 2008 21:04
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I haven't used this Blurb - but I have made books at:
Shutterfly.com
Kodakgallery.com
Walmart.com
Snapfish.com
Walgreens.com
All of which have comparable pricing, similar styles to choose from and for the books I've had made - fairly consistent quality and relatively accurate color.
Except for Shutterfly, you have to navigate to the photo section to move on from there. I usually use the one that is having a sale - the quality and reliability from my experiences has been more than acceptable for my clients.
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| stuboy Thu 4th Sep 2008 21:19
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Originally posted by DragonSpeed:
Has anyone made a book with "Blurb"?
No but I think a few of my Christmas prezzies have just been solved :)
Cheers
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| LisaSam67 Thu 4th Sep 2008 21:20
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Originally posted by stuboy:
No but I think a few of my Christmas prezzies have just been solved :)
i was thinking the exact same thing stu! scary ;-)
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| Pondy PRO Fri 5th Sep 2008 00:08
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I've made one Blurb book, and loads of Lulu ones. I think they all come from the same printers. (I had a book from Lulu covered in Blurb stickers)
Make sure you have your color management right or you will be shocked at how wrong the pictures can be.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Fri 5th Sep 2008 03:13
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Originally posted by Pondy:
Make sure you have your color management right or you will be shocked at how wrong the pictures can be.
Thanks for the heads up on that one.
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| DragonSpeed PRO Fri 5th Sep 2008 17:11
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Originally posted by Pondy:
Make sure you have your color management right or you will be shocked at how wrong the pictures can be.
A quick follow up on that....
If we print the photos at a photo lab (and ask them NOT to correct) and we like the outcome - can we expect the colours to be good in the book?
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| Pondy PRO Fri 5th Sep 2008 17:39
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Jagged will know better.
But I think it depends on the printing method.
I make my books by assembling the bits in a DTP program, saving as a PDF and then they print the PDF.
The one time I forgot to make sure my pictures were in the colour space they requested I got muddy rubbish back. Blurb say they want your pictures in sRGB, that's where I went wrong, I use Adobe RGB and forgot to convert.
Here's Blurb's guide to getting the colour right:
http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2007/03/16/tips-on-how-to-synchronize-your-color/
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| Doody PRO Fri 5th Sep 2008 19:17
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I use Photobox over here, I had one with 3 pages blured & they replaced instantly, all the others have been great ..
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| PhotoPro PRO Wed 4th Feb 2009 23:01
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I just used Walgreen's (recently - Dec) to do 2 calendars and 5 books for clients, the color was amazingly close to what I see on my screen. My screen may be off, but regardless I was satisfied (more importantly the clients were ecstatic) with the results.
Although the different labs use different processes, inks processors and so on, they have become so standardized that I have started buying based on a combination of price and delivery speed needed.
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| hans55 PRO Fri 20th Feb 2009 16:10
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i use henzo for my printed fotobooks, very good software ...and good print quality !!!
does anyone know how i can copy and entire album from FT ??? ... would be much easier to make a selection for a book this way !!
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| PhotoPro PRO Fri 20th Feb 2009 21:09
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Originally posted by hans55:
does anyone know how i can copy and entire album from FT ??? ... would be much easier to make a selection for a book this way !!
Hans I can't think of any way you could do it aside from going to the album, click on large view & downloading each photo one-by-one.
For the future - a couple of thoughts:
I have a separate folder that is highly organized (category, subject then year - would make a few changes if I could start over but not after 6000 pics) containing every shot I have ever posted on Fotothing.
You may have also noticed that some time back I started added a "coded" 6 digit number in my tags which is simply the date taken. Since I don't throw away anything, I can just go to the original file and re-edit from there.
Hope that helps.
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| TonyF2009 Mon 7th Sep 2009 06:20
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I shoot it and bin it :)
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