vampyre's Posts

I don’t know of any way of doing this in the book software, I normally correct the photo before I add it to the book. There are plenty of tools for this,  both free and commercial. I use Fast Stone Image viewer (<cite>www.faststone.org).</cite> It’s free and it does a good job.

Of course, you could always use Photoshop or The Gimp or Google away until you find a tool that suits your needs :)

The Gimp is a very comprehensive product, I’d recommend it to anyone wanting advanced editing. It does pretty well everything Photoshop can do, and it is freeware.

For simple red eye removal I prefer to stick with the simpler products, hence my original recommendation.

OK, so this is a really late reply. I’m a newbie and was just browsing the forums…

Way back when I used to work in a bookstore we used to clean glossy dust covers with ‘Mr Sheen’. Not sure if you have it in the states, but you can google it for more information. It’s actually a furniture polish, but it removes prints and left over glue from sale stickers etc with no problems, and no harm to the dust jacket.

One disclaimer – I’m assuming that the blurb dust covers are a standard glossy dust jacket, I’ve never actually seen a Blurb published book.

( And apologies if mentioning the brand violates any posting rules – it’s the only one we used, and I don’t know the active ingredients so I can’t make a generic recommendation. Simply saying ‘use furniture polish’ would probably result in many ruined books ! )