Comments for Blurberati Blog http://blog.blurb.com Passionate about all things book: design, content, sharing, life ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:38:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on We *heart* I Heart Faces by Amy @ Living Locurto http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2009/11/19/we-heart-i-heart-faces/#comment-10211 Amy @ Living Locurto Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:23 +0000 http://blog.blurb.com/?p=1873#comment-10211 Wow! Fun to be on the Blurberati Blog:-) We loved making this book. Thanks! Amy Co-Founder I Heart Faces Wow! Fun to be on the Blurberati Blog:-) We loved making this book. Thanks!

Amy
Co-Founder
I Heart Faces

]]> Comment on Introducing “How to Make a Gorgeous Photo Book” by Teri Ogles http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2009/11/11/introducing-how-to-make-a-gorgeous-photo-book/#comment-10210 Teri Ogles Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:48:06 +0000 http://blog.blurb.com/?p=1854#comment-10210 We just received our wedding album and were delighted with the results. I have had so many people ask about your website and have shared with them how simple the process was. We love it...thanks for helping make a memory! We just received our wedding album and were delighted with the results. I have had so many people ask about your website and have shared with them how simple the process was. We love it…thanks for helping make a memory!

]]> Comment on We *heart* I Heart Faces by Mike http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2009/11/19/we-heart-i-heart-faces/#comment-10209 Mike Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:31:18 +0000 http://blog.blurb.com/?p=1873#comment-10209 Right back atcha Angie - looking forward to more collaborations with you all and the I Heart Faces community! Right back atcha Angie - looking forward to more collaborations with you all and the I Heart Faces community!

]]> Comment on We *heart* I Heart Faces by Angie from I Heart Faces http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2009/11/19/we-heart-i-heart-faces/#comment-10203 Angie from I Heart Faces Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:34:25 +0000 http://blog.blurb.com/?p=1873#comment-10203 Working with Blurb on this book was so much fun - thank you so much for recognizing and supporting our fun community of photographers! ~Angie co-founder of I Heart Faces Working with Blurb on this book was so much fun - thank you so much for recognizing and supporting our fun community of photographers!

~Angie
co-founder of I Heart Faces

]]> Comment on How to: Archive, share, or transfer your book files by LYS http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2007/05/17/how-to-archive-share-or-transfer-your-book-files/#comment-10200 LYS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:49:25 +0000 http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2007/05/17/how-to-archive-share-or-transfer-your-book-files/#comment-10200 Tried several times to do this, did not work, very frustrating. Giving up.... Tried several times to do this, did not work, very frustrating. Giving up….

]]> Comment on How to: Archive, share, or transfer your book files by nick downey http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2007/05/17/how-to-archive-share-or-transfer-your-book-files/#comment-10195 nick downey Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:47:10 +0000 http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2007/05/17/how-to-archive-share-or-transfer-your-book-files/#comment-10195 found a rough and ready way to output a PDF of a book if you have photoshop - as I say it is rough and ready but would be OK for a proof and certainly to be sent on a disc to a customer/colleague here how I did it go into preview mode on booksmart and get rid of the page navigator - expand the image - I used a double page spread until it nearly fits the screen hit the PrtScrn button ( PC) (mac, not sure) to put page in clipboard go into photoshop type Ctrl N for new file, choose clipboard as preset source then OK type Ctrl V to paste clipboard into new file crop if required save as the page number you have copied do this for all your pages - keep files open in photoshop when all saved File /Automate/ PDF presentation select 'add open files' select 'save as pdf presentation' selct file name and make the font size as large as poss click on Ok then give it a filename when pdf choices come up choose PDF/X-3 etc - this is booksmarts choice for PDF files but this is probably not a good way to export a book - this method is only for proofing click on Ok - you will then have a pdf file of the screen images of your book - with the file name at the bottom of each image you could experiment with reducing file size so that the pdf file would be smaller but this would be at the expense of quality This works with photoshop cs3 found a rough and ready way to output a PDF of a book if you have photoshop - as I say it is rough and ready but would be OK for a proof and certainly to be sent on a disc to a customer/colleague

here how I did it
go into preview mode on booksmart and get rid of the page navigator - expand the image - I used a double page spread until it nearly fits the screen
hit the PrtScrn button ( PC) (mac, not sure) to put page in clipboard
go into photoshop
type Ctrl N for new file, choose clipboard as preset source then OK
type Ctrl V to paste clipboard into new file
crop if required
save as the page number you have copied
do this for all your pages - keep files open in photoshop
when all saved
File /Automate/ PDF presentation
select ‘add open files’
select ’save as pdf presentation’
selct file name and make the font size as large as poss
click on Ok then give it a filename
when pdf choices come up choose PDF/X-3 etc - this is booksmarts choice for PDF files but this is probably not a good way to export a book - this method is only for proofing
click on Ok - you will then have a pdf file of the screen images of your book - with the file name at the bottom of each image
you could experiment with reducing file size so that the pdf file would be smaller but this would be at the expense of quality
This works with photoshop cs3

]]> Comment on An update from the CEO on good stuff in the works by Greg Harm http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2008/05/05/an-update-from-the-ceo-on-good-stuff-in-the-works/#comment-10192 Greg Harm Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:51:25 +0000 http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2008/05/05/an-update-from-the-ceo-on-good-stuff-in-the-works/#comment-10192 How about a fee based commercial account whereby we can pay a fee for the privilege of mass producing the books, since we use the services more than those who simply produce personalized commemorative books? I am willing to pay a fee to gain better production rates, and still allow Blurb and me to share a profit, by selling the books more cheaply, resulting in greater sales volumes. My book is selling and I need to get a better production cost or, well, maybe fail. How about a fee based commercial account whereby we can pay a fee for the privilege of mass producing the books, since we use the services more than those who simply produce personalized commemorative books?

I am willing to pay a fee to gain better production rates, and still allow Blurb and me to share a profit, by selling the books more cheaply, resulting in greater sales volumes. My book is selling and I need to get a better production cost or, well, maybe fail.

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