Blurb Blip book

I thought I’d blip the book I just had made by Blurb and share what I did as I know some others have been wondering how they were going to make theirs, since we can no longer get them from Blip.    If you don’t care…stop right here.    

I know that many really want the whole page with text (or text and comments!)  but I have 3 volumes of 365 for the first 3 years done with a week on a 2 page spread like the top pictures…I did add the text on a few of the large ones…It makes the 6 photos on an 8x8” page pretty small but you could decide which picture you wanted to make the big one.  When we had the opportunity to buy a lifetime membership, one could get a big 365 book for the price of the small one so I thought why not.   So Vol.lV is 8x8 and has 1 picture per page,  most with the whole text on it.   For me. it’s way too big!  And my writing is not so good anyway so I really didn’t need to have it… (I have most of them on the computer should I want to see one or check something)  I have used the books so often to quickly look week by week to see when some event happened—-the pages in Vol ll are starting to separate from the spine.   I think the Blurb book will be sturdier.  (and it’s less expensive!)  It’s 8x10 so a little wider but otherwise looks similar.

However, I made this too fast, hoping to take the 50% off opportunity… and made another which I had ordered x3 early afternoon and got the discount.    By the time I had this one ready to go (sort of) it was 9:00PM and the discount wouldn’t work —one had to order them together!   Oh well, by that time, I just clicked it anyway.  :-)   I did this with the Book option in Lightroom.  Organized the photos which I had saved in a blip folder in the right order,(previously) made a template of 4 photos on the left side, and 3 on the right side (so one could still be larger) and autofilled it with the date tagged on each.    Sounds simple, yes?  Well I still had to go thru and add the title or description to each and decide which picture fit the one bigger slot best.  And the letters came out much larger than I thought. (I guess I never looked at it full size)….  so now I just have to pretend they’re part of “the look”  :-)   Next time —-IF I get to Vol Vl, I can do it differently, and better (and take more time to double check)  —and I think the regular Blurb  (booksmart) is much more flexible in changing the sizes on a page than the version in Lightroom.  But its easy in lightroom to have it all together so one can edit any picture quickly along the way.

And all the photos are a bit bigger and recorded in a pretty skinny book…so I’m happy.  You could maybe get 2 photos per page with the text underneath and then it wouldn’t be as big as the blip 365 book.
Just some ideas…..