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Is it best to avoid zooming within BookSmart?

Just wondering whether for best image quality it is better to crop and resize in Photoshop or a similar program so that there is no need to move and zoom the images within the containers in BookSmart, or would it make no difference? (Assuming of course that there is sufficient reolution in the first place!)

 Anyway I have just ordered my first book – only half of my project is completed but at 180 pages I want to have a look at how it comes out before I do the rest! Plus of course it might not be wise to order a 400-page book as it might fall apart – better to order in two volumes perhaps…?

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Posted by
robkingston
Apr 12, 2008 5:24pm PDT
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I do my cropping and resizing in Photoshop CS.

It is not that I have done trials and found it better than BookSmart, it’s just that photoshoop offers you a choice of algorithms ,particularly bicubic and bicubic smoother, when resizing. My judgment (guess?) is that Adobe’s algorithms are probably better than those used by Blurb.

If I need to more than double the size (usually when I do a really tight crop on part of the photo) I use Fixerlabs SizeFIxer, I’m really impressed by that app.

It would be interesting th hear from a Blurb staff member on this topic, I may be misjudging the product.

..........Tony

Posted by
tfrankland
Apr 12, 2008 11:54pm PDT
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tfrankland