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if anyone wants a few photoshop scrapbook layouts..
Book Design and Imaging
On this same vein, I would like to find one software that will do soft edges and will do drop shadows on 3 sides of a photo . I saw one book in Blurb that had great photos with black 3 sided shadows on a white background and they looked very professional. I know it can be done in Photoshop, but it’s time consuming to get all 3 sides just right. I end up using different softwares for different layouts because one will do one thing and not another, etc.
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if anyone wants a few photoshop scrapbook layouts..
Book Design and Imaging
I would definitely be interested. Always anxious to try new things. I have been using a scrapbooking software, but this sounds interesting, too. Please email to wjukich@hotmail.com. Thanks, Wendy
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Newbie photo and copy layout question
Book Design and Imaging
One of the ways you can do what you want, as far as a picture layout, is to use a scrapbooking software (I use Scrapbook Factory) or something like PictureIt and lay out your pictures the way you want. Then export them at 300dpi and jpg high quality and you can use that jpg file as a full bleed photo. I have done this and it works great. Gives you a lot more options as far a photo layout. I have even done ones where I put a photo as the back ground and lay other photos over it – you can change the ‘transparency’ of the background photo so it is not so busy. Have fun trying! Wendy
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Books arrived- I'm almost in tears
Book Printing
I had this happen before I printed a book – I had done one book, had a spelling error on the cover, so had to redo the book. Before I redid the book, I downloaded the newest software version. When I opened my book, the fonts all disappeared. Actually, it was there, but the backgrounds were black and the print changed from white to black, so I had to highlight the text so I could see it and change the color of the text. I was lucky to have seen this before printing, but you could see your print, so it must have been a printing problem. It sounds like customer support will help you and reprint, but that won’t help for Christmas. This is a good place to vent and see if others have run across the same things and see if they get resolved, so keep us posted and good luck!
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changes once submitted
Book Printing
I can sympathize with you. I did that, too. As you have probably found out, once you press the ‘order’ button there is no going back. My error was in the spelling of ‘Wisconsin’ on the front cover! One of my bosses ordered one of the books as a gift and of course he saw the error right away. Since then I have ordered 8 more copies, but I had to fix my error and redo the book upload again. Does anyone know if you can get just a new cover for the books? I would order just 3 covers for the original ones I ordered if I could. You can order just a cover from MyPublisher, but their books are more expensive, a different size and you pay more for the cover. It looks like Blurb is trying to improve, so maybe some of these things will get better in the future – especially if you ordered only hours ago.
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Very disappointed.
General Interest
Just wanted to let Stephanie know the quality of the bigger books are better, but maybe the processing is getting better now, too. I have done 7 books. The colors on the bigger books were better, but I have been learning on the editing, too. I did find the black backgrounds work in some places, but work against the photo in other areas. My ‘Zoo’ book was an experiment in colored backgrounds and to see if the background colors in Blurb really did match my photo colors – pretty good, but would stay away from bright colors in the future. I have done 6 books on My Publisher and have found the quality to be the same – even the thickness of the pages. Just be careful of the edges and the inside – use the 1/8" rule for that. All together I am wonderully pleased with Blurb and the price can’t be beat – the covers are absolutely stunning! Try a bigger book and good luck!
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