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Will the quality be bad if I let Book Smart downsize my images?

Hi!

I am about to start designing my very first book about my family’ recent holidays.

The photos are 500+ taken at full resolution with D2X and D3.

I have converted from RAW to JPEG and from aRGB to sRGB.

Should I also downsize each image before importing into Book Smart, to fit the lay out?

On some pages, based on the book’s Standard Portrait 8×10 format, I am adding up to 8 images.

I understand many people prefer to upsize using other softwares. But, what about downsizing???

Tks in advance

 Nick

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Posted by
NickHK168
Apr 26, 2008 12:38am PDT
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I used CS3 to downsize some, and just let booksmart downsize others, and to be honest, i couldn’t tell the difference in the quality. But mine were going down from 6mp to quarter page.
Posted by
Reebdoog
Apr 26, 2008 2:10am PDT
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Reebdoog
 

Thanks, I guess that with the amount of pictures I am including, individual resizing is definitely not an option.

Now, if only the software allowed to enlarge the thumbnails, would that be very helpful??? 
Posted by
NickHK168
May 1, 2008 5:06pm PDT
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NickHK168
 

If you double click the thumbnail you get a pop-up of a larger view.
Posted by
robkingston
May 2, 2008 5:30am PDT
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robkingston
 

Hi Rob;

Now that’s a handy-dandy tip I hadn’t picked up on…

Interstingly, it also reveals the original file name & path… so why on earth Blurb need to create those horrendously long filenames, that can’t be re-interpreted heaven knows!

Cheers;

Lee
Posted by
lkb-28
May 2, 2008 7:20am PDT
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lkb-28
 

Thank you Rob,

I had alrdy found that out. But, it’s a good thing only for random checking and not when you have 500+ pics to enter in the layout and have to choose which goes forst and which follows afterwards, when there are some that may look simila! 

So, for me, having to double click on each and every of them seems insane.

I guess the software has still a long way to go before it become more user friendly.

I have just discovered another big shortcoming (and I have only just started using it) it’s about the impossibility to place pics free-handly. Either follow the available limited lay-outs. Or have to pre-layout in other applications, save asjpegs and then import as final image.

Silly! Very very silly!

Oh well, I am still waiting for the day I will find something perfect. Till then, I can only dream :-)) 
Posted by
NickHK168
May 7, 2008 1:16am PDT
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