Interesting book idea, Larry. I've flipped through about two-thirds of it, most of the photos look good. The subject matter isn't my interest, generally speaking, so I can't comment on the aesthetics of it in the eyes of dance enthusiasts who might be interested.
My photo book workshop is coming to a close. I decided to use the Lightroom 4.1 book tool rather than the Blurb BookSmart tool both to test out the book making capabilities and because it simplifies my workflow by some amount (in a time period when I really have very little time to spare for the effort, so it was important). Responding to someone's query up-thread: The current cut of the Lightroom book module is pretty young and does not support all the capabilities of BookSmart yet. That said, it provides quite a lot of options and allows a seamless integration between your image libraries and the book design/production process in a way that isn't possible with BookSmart. My book is more content driven than layout and design oriented, so it's proven to be satisfactory just as it is on this effort. (I am preparing announcements and invitations to the reception and book-signing event for the workshop, which is scheduled for Thursday, August 2, 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Modernbook Gallery at 49 Geary Ave in San Francisco. It should be a hoot, there are some fascinating books going to be presented by our little troupe of 12. My book, "Ways Together", is based on the Communicating series I showed in PESOs through 2011. I'll email a formal announcement to the list in a week or two. :-) On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> >> On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 11, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks everyone for your comments. I had uploaded my new version and just >>>> ordered my proof copy two minutes ago: >>>> http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3312094 >>>> >>>> . . . >>> >>>> So, now, every blurb book I've done, I've done with different software. >>>> The first one with the blurb software, which I downloaded. The second with >>>> InDesign, the third with Lightroom. Lightroom has some annoying >>>> limitations, but it's a lot easier to use, and learn, than InDesign, and >>>> still a lot more flexible than the blurb software. It also has the >>>> advantage of processing the photos directly into the book, rather than >>>> processing them into an intermediate stage. >>>> >>> >>> In what respect(s) is LR more flexible than Blurb? >> >> It's been about a year and a half since I did the book using the blurb >> software, but as I remember, the downloadable blurb software was a lot more >> limited in the page formats. It is entirely possible that: >> >> A) I didn't spend enough time to learn how to wring everything out of the >> blurb software >> >> B) My memory is broken >> >> C) They have added more functionality to the blurb software. >> >> D) All of the above >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> > > Thanks Larry. Recently (for values of recent ranging from 6 months to 18 > months) Blurb added a button that allows for editing their page layouts. The > editing is very straightforward and the resulting page layout can be saved > and reused in that book and/or in later books. In fact this was my major > issue with the pre-release first version of LR-4 - i.e., the only way to > change or add page layouts was to go off into the print module, create > something, export it, then re-import it into Book module. Which is why I > haven't upgraded to LR-4 yet. > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
