Black and white photography
Well, I was lucky enough to get in the 300 club. Apparently the B3 is a much sophisticated process including special printing, paper etc. I ordered three books, one large landscape, two standard hard covers. I work the files exactly the way Blurb recommended. I have followed all instructions, etc. I waited anxiously to see if finally the problem with black and white photos were resolved as promised…..... The books arrived today. I have to say that the level of disappointment is huge. The black and white images have different type of casts, magenta, yellow, green, you named it. It is like a Christmas tree, changes colors all the time. Some of the images were full of vertical stripes, the paper is so thin that the photo on the next page creates very artistic shadows in the same page, etc., etc, etc. I have tried, God knows. No matter what color management, soft proving , icc profile, etc. I used, the photographs are not black and white. Dear Bluberians, I had enough, I am really disappointed with the amount of money I have spent (many books trails), the time I have spent, and with the final outcomes of what you seem to be believe is a state of the art, specially for professionals. Well, it turned out to be even worse than the standard version. I wanted to thank Blurb for all the efforts in trying to help photographers publishing books in an affordable way. Unfortunately the state of your technology does not seem to be in a place to produce work of quality when it comes to black and white. Ed
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Hi Ed, What you are experiencing here is definitely not the norm. Our B3 books should allow much more consistent color especially if you use the proper profile, have your monitor calibrated, etc. Please contact Order Support immediately so we can take a look at your book. We’ll have it shipped back to us so we can figure out what’s going on. We’ll make things right. Very sorry for this inconvenience, and thanks for your patience. – Kathy
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Thank you Kathy. I already contacted them. Ed
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