benjamlee's Posts

Hello Phil, 

I was interested in the difference myself. So I dropped the same set of photos into an iPhoto book and a Blurb book.

Here’s the final score:

Apple iPhoto book has better page layouts with boxes that naturally fit the aspect of photos, and the page layouts mix and match better to make for much nicer spreads.  Paper quality is a little thicker than Blurb’s too. But… the cover looks amateurish as it is just a piece of paper stuck to the front. The limit of 100 pages is not helplful.

Blurb book looks more pro. I ordered the hardback with dust jacket and this makes for a much more convincing, coffee table book finish. Throughout, the colours and print quality are better. And I got a 140 page book for less than half the price of Apple’s inferior 100-page effort.

As an iBook/iPod/iPhoto fan, I was sure the Apple book would deliver. Blurb won hands down

My only tip – up the contrast and intensity of all your pics no matter which company you decide to go with.

Will take some pics of both books when I get a chance and post them for all to see.

Good luck! Ben

I have just received my very first blurb book. In short, I am absolutely delighted.

I was very worried, as after reading through these forums, I expected to receive a book full of badly printed images with dull colours. But this is absolutely not the case. My hardback 8"x10" book has 140 pages of really well printed colour photography. And a fantastic dust jacket!

I didn’t follow all the colour profiling rules discussed in other forum topics, as I didn’t understand them. I took all my images at 10megapixels on a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ50. I downloaded them and left them all as ‘RGB’. I did a quick tweak to each – increasing the contrast by between 10% and 15% in Photoshop, judging it by eye on my iBook (which doesn’t  have a colour-calibrated screen).

Then I put them all into Blurb and hit ‘order’ and hoped for the best. I got it. 

Just wanted to share this with anyone who uses a similar model camera, or who is nervous about giving the service a go after reading all the posts about colour.