![]() Once you've finished laying out your book and have checked it using the preview and built in tools, you simply upload and order it. Oh and I copied and pasted my key dates from my document too, and regularly referred to this to make sure I got the order right! The application allows you to drag and drop your photos onto the page, and to choose from pre-selected layouts, or create your own. Very helpful if you are working with large volumes of photos. Any photos I didn't use in that month's layout, I deleted, so I didn't get confused from month to month. That way, it's much easier to manage and see what you have and which ones you still need to use. But my one piece of advice (apart from file size!) is to load in one month's worth of photos into the application at a time. I won't provide a step by step guide here to using BookWright as Blurb provide lots of great help materials. The key thing to do before you start is to check the total size of all the images you plan to use and make sure it's less than 4.29GB. But next time I'll export them at, say, 90% quality, with the long edge sized at 3,600 pixels, which should reduce the file size significantly, whilst still being reasonable quality. The problem with this advice is that I didn't know whether I was going to use an image for a full page layout or 4 to a page until I started to lay the book out. The advice I received from Blurb is to use "images that are sized near their image container at 300 dpi". So, when you are exporting your photos to use in the book, I would recommend not exporting them at full size/resolution if you have a decent DSLR. If you hit this limit, it grinds to a halt and you can no longer save your project. It is worth mentioning here a key fact that Blurb doesn't seem to display anywhere and I didn't find out until it was too late: BookWright has a file size limit of 4.29GB. For my last book, I used Blurb's BookWright application (Blurb offer a variety of different tools, so worth checking them out before you start). Now I'm ready to start making my photobook. For my 2014 photobooks, I used about 240 pages in total. Some months will inevitably have more photos than others, as you will probably take lots more photos in the summer, say, than the colder, darker winter months. Before I begin I have a rough idea of how many pages my photobook will have, and how many pages I want to dedicate to each month. ![]() I try to be very selective, as I have a large number of photos. Using my Key Dates doc as a guide, I can quickly locate the photos I took each month and select and export my favourite photos. (I also try to go through the photos I've taken on my "big camera" too at the end of the month, although this is a bigger job and harder to stick to - but more on that another time).Īt the end of the year (or rather, beginning of the new year), I create a folder on my computer for the yearly photo album and a folder within that for each month. This step is so important and is the only way I can keep on top of things. I then go through them and sort and edit them pretty ruthlessly (I've got 500ish photos on my camera roll so far this month to give you an idea of scale!). It only takes a few minutes if you cross reference your calendar and your phone's photo roll and is SUCH a massive help at the end of the year (I'm hopeless at remembering dates!).Īt the end of every month, I download all my iPhone photos to my computer and delete them from my phone. At the end of every month, I quickly jot down the things we did, places we visited and the things I want to remember for that month, alongside the date they happened. If you’re ready to take the plunge but don’t want to start completely from scratch, this tutorial will show you how to transfer your finished BookSmart photo book into BookWright.My Process for creating a yearly photo albumĪt the start of each year I create a Google doc called Key Dates with a heading for each month. It’s missing a few features I love (text styles and setting an aspect ratio to photo boxes) but there are great things about BookWright that were missing in BookSmart (ability to work in a spread format, auto alignment, and custom margin guides). I don’t have insider knowledge but BookWright definitely seems to be the direction Blurb is heading. And I recommend testing out the upload process within BookSmart at the beginning before investing time in a photo book that can no longer be uploaded for printing.īut all is not lost! There’s a way to import your BookSmart photo book into BookWright – either to keep working on a book-in-progress or to use your favorite layouts for your next BookWright photo book. ![]() You may still be able to open and upload a book you’ve already started….but I’m not sure that will always be an option in the future. ![]() A while ago, I wrote about how Blurb is no longer offering BookSmart in their program offering.
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