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p.1 #1 · need help with book software

ok im pulling my hair out whats left of it.

I need to put together a cheap album for around 60-70 bucks.

I thought Id use blurb BUT they want to be able to proff/see it and blurb only shows 15 pages which is not doing me any good....

I have an acct with BRI and WHCC and when using whcc I dont get the roes designer thing... i cant even figure out how to goto the next page.

BRI is a lil better but the images look like someone poured pepper all over them, and worry that it will print like that as that is what happened to a image in blurb book...

Nov 05, 2009 at 04:27 PM

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p.1 #2 · need help with book software

BRI is easily under $70 depending on the size. You can't design in Photoshop/Indesign?

Nov 05, 2009 at 04:29 PM

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p.1 #3 · need help with book software

BRI's pressbooks smack of awesome. *All* of my clients are impressed with the quality of them. I had a past client come to me this week saying she printed up a book with Blurb and was so disappointed with the quality, that she wanted to order another coffee table book (BRI pressbook) from me.

Nov 05, 2009 at 04:32 PM

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p.1 #4 · need help with book software

You can proof the whole book on Blurb now!

Nov 05, 2009 at 05:48 PM

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p.1 #5 · need help with book software

werd! thanks!!!

Nov 05, 2009 at 08:44 PM

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p.1 #6 · need help with book software

my publisher has worked well for me in the past. they have an online bookshelf that has a flash slide show of the pages templates etc..

Nov 05, 2009 at 10:29 PM

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p.1 #7 · need help with book software

What do you mean: "BRI is a lil better but the images look like someone poured pepper all over them"??

Are you looking for software to design the album? or software to proof an album?

For proof, I use a little flip book flash plugin, see an example here:
http://www.blackcatwhitecatphotography.com/2009/10/tanya-vinits-wedding-album/

BRI also uses something similar in their http://www.approvemyalbum.com/

Nov 05, 2009 at 11:09 PM

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p.1 #8 · need help with book software

wow... very nice! what did you use to design it?

in the roes designer... looks like i shot everything at ISO 1234123423442332.5

its turrabul.

ok so i just spent HOURS designing a book on blurb and I only get the 15 pages... goddammit. I know blurb is not the best choice... but that is all this job is quoted for.

Nov 06, 2009 at 04:18 AM

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p.1 #9 · need help with book software

ok i found how to do all of them..

Nov 06, 2009 at 04:46 AM

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p.1 #10 · need help with book software

I used fotofusion to do design. Well worth it!

There's also photojunction that's free, I heard great things about it too.

Nov 06, 2009 at 09:21 AM

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p.1 #11 · need help with book software

You have to keep in mind though just how much design work you want to put into a $70 album (if that's what they are paying you) versus whether you want crud do go out with your name on it

Nov 06, 2009 at 11:49 AM

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