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Hello Everyone

 In my first book I made resized each and every image to the actual dimension sizes in which they were placed in the book.  So this meant resizing images to fit the pixel dimensions all at 300dpi and then I sharpened the images accodingly. 

I did this for 2 reasons.  One was to make my overal MB footprint smaller as I wouldn’t have to be using an original image that may only be going into a thumbnail size layout my book and 2 I felt I gained more control over sharpness quality as I could see the actual pixel size when I resized rather than if I was to put the original image into the book.

 Does anyone else do what I do?  I find it a lot more time consuming as you have to resize all images to suit the actual pages, but thought I would be gaining better Image Quality. 

Thanks for your help.  So even though I into Photoshop and go to IMAGE>MODE and see the RGB box is ticked are my images still in sRGB?, as when I right click on them in properties after being saved they do say the color space is sRGB.  And when I go to EDIT>PREFERENCES>COLOR SETTINGS, in Photoshop its says working space is sRGB.

I have been doing some forum reading and it seems many people are having issues with a magenta cast or very dark images when getting BW prints done in the book.  I would like to know if others have had success stories, or should I steer clear of adding BW images?

When I scroll over the booksmart full page bleed it says that the ideal image size is 9.6inches x 8.2inches or not 2884×2471 pixels .  So I add these dimensons into the photoshop crop toolbar @ 300dpi and crop my image, but the image size is then only 2880×2460 pixels. Has Blurb got some mats wrong or am I doing something wrong?  I mean my images are massive in terms of pixel resolution, so thought it would be good to shrink them as Blurb shows how to do on its help section.  I just hope that this will not degrade the final image quality as I assume the images are going to have to be slighly upsized again now.