![]() The program allows you to import photos and text and is incredibly easy to learn. ![]() There are even more ways to make a book (like online and on your iPad with the Blurb app) but I will show you the most powerful and efficient software options for making books with Blurb.īlurb’s BookWright software is a simple bookmaking program that allows for template-based page design as well as free-hand drag and drop. In this video series, I will introduce you to Blurb’s latest book line and show you how to make a blurb book with Blurb’s BookWright software, Adobe Lightroom Classic, and Adobe InDesign. But making a book is time-consuming and expensive… or at least that is what most photographers think, but it doesn’t have to be either.īlurb has made the art of bookmaking accessible to photographers across the globe with beautifully printed and bound, yet inexpensive books and tools that make book creation fun and simple. Photographers who do not offer books to their clients are not capitalizing on their clients’ interest with printed books. Even people who never read use books for pure decor in their homes. Look around any one of your client’s home. Not only are they missing the incredible value in the process of making a book, but they are missing out on an additional stream of income. Unfortunately, too many photographers are content to remain in that “digital world” and never realize what they are missing in the physical world of print. So perhaps that is the reason why images in a book feel different and special. The process of reviewing images for a book and placing them in a book design is potentially the most intense selection process a batch of images can go through, which means that the images that end up on the printed page will be more important, more meaningful and more impactful. Each time we look at our images, we compare them and elevate the better ones until we the very best rise to the top. We then look at our images on our computer or on a contact sheet and further cull our images to find the best. While we are in the field photographing, we are rejecting billions of images in favor of a few that end up captured in our cameras. At each stage of our creative process, we select a small number of worthy images from a much greater number of uninteresting images. Perhaps it is because pairing a visual and a tactile experience heightens the emotions we feel, but more likely, it is because the image has gone through the additional scrutiny to be selected out of many great images for the honor of print. The connection I feel to an image on the printed page is far greater than the connection I feel to an image on a screen. When we take an image or a set of images out of the digital world and give them a physical form, we elevate their importance. ![]() ![]() I know it is easy and simple to set up a web page, or put your images on an iPad and call it a day, and that certainly serves its purpose, but there is something greater than images on a screen. I think the art of bookmaking has been forgotten by far too many photographers. I love picking up a beautifully designed book and leafing through it. I love photo books! I love looking through a book of images, feeling the paper, seeing the way the photographer has paired the images and organized them.
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