Shifter: Intro to Blurb BookWright
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- So, if you are offended by Blurb content you might want to skip this film. Or, if you already know how to use Blurb BookWright then you are probably good. Someone reached out and asked me to make this film. I take for granted a lot of things that might be roadblocks for other folks. Like using software, editing images, sequencing, choosing materials, making test books, etc. This is by no means a comprehensive walk-through of this software but it will show you a few things to get started and that is really the point. People waiting for perfection don't make things. They just wait for a time and circumstance that doesn't exist.
Also, a reminder. All of this should be FUN. If you take your bookmaking and photography so seriously that it drives everyone around you a little bit wacky just back off and take stake in the idea that the vast majority of people in the world are simply looking for food, water, and shelter and to do best for their family. They do not and will not ever care about your work. That's called perspective.
BookWright is a good piece of software. I use it a lot and have for years so I know how to use it and when. If you haven't used it just remember it is far easier than something like Photoshop or Adobe Premiere. And way more fun than Excel. What's not to like? Any issues let me know.
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Downloaded and all the steps are done. Thank you Dan.
Big thanks for this, Mr. Dan. I just started work with Blurb BookWright, for small home/family "memento" photo book, but I wan to this be somthing more then a regular "photo book" that are in every photo shop, and here we have Blurb. It's really helpful intro. Truth, blurb software it's quite easy, but extra info always helpful.
And there is more. All kinds of hidden things in that software. Glad you are printing.
Thanks Daniel for making this. I have made a couple of test books and magazines with BookWright and I thought I have the application under control, but I learned something new here. Thanks once more.
Cool. Happy that helped. There are many more little things I could have added but thought this was a good start.
Thank you for this introduction and for opening more doors within this program. The added value for me was in the enhance image and layout demos.
Cool. Test drive it a few times without printing what you make. Just play.
Brilliant, just what I needed, thank you
Thank you Dan, always a help. I took your advice and always have Book Write open on my pc. Now I need to test frequently, at least daily.
You'll get it.
Great intro to Blurb's BookWright, Dan. Thank you!
Good video and I am tempted. Just placed an order for my first Macro lens and cannot wait for its arrival. Gonna go out and shoot lots of spring macro stuff to put into a Zine.
Macro are always fun. And easy to use to create a cohesive theme.
I enjoy using BookWright. I've created over a dozen Blurb books with it. I've also created books with other self-publish companies using their software applications and also with the Blurb plug-in for Lightroom. I still prefer BookWright for its ease of use and to do what I need quickly and intuitively. I'm in the middle of three more books and have a list of about twenty more that I'm looking forward to creating. I mainly create the books for myself as a cost effective way to physically print my images into bound collections that I can store on a bookshelf or on a coffee table. I have over five decades of images that I'm trying to immortalize in print and leave for family or friends when my time on this Earth is up.
What a great note. I'm glad you are happy. Going to pass this along to the team. They will enjoy it.
I used Blurb BookSmart a number of times and it was great except it did get pretty clunky when you had a complex book open. BookWright does seem like it's a far better implementation of the idea.
BS was good for the time but BW is far more useful. In my opinion...
Re: audio difficulties- you can try unplugging the laptop and running on battery power to kill the ground loop. I don’t know your exact setup so it may or may not be helpful. Could also be a bad or cheap cable with bad grounding. Hope this can be useful for future videos. Love the channel!
Great video and helpful information, Thanks.
Ok. The enhance images button is pretty slick. The more you know. Star with trailing rainbow.
Ya, it's a nice little check.
What's maddening with this app is not being able to select weights from within a font family. I know light, medium, and heavy are in there. I just can't see them through BookWright.
Whether it is this particular grievance or any other, work to what a system offers not to what it does not. This applies to paper types, trim size, cover materials, page counts, etc. Otherwise you will either lose the joy of the process of you risk making a bad book out of anger. I've seen it happen endless times. And this goes to all print offerings and companies. They all lag in one aspect or another.
My first blurb book was around d 2012 the software seems a little easier now , or at least your making it look good
It's being improved all the time. It's far better than the original software.
Thanks for this info!
tape starts at about 11:00. "Not a great piece of software"sums up Blurb. The simplest thing like typing in your title doesn't work.
Thanks for another great video! I just decided yesterday to stop procrastinating and learn Bookwright so I can work on my photo book about Panamá. This tutorial couldn't have come at a better time. The one element that you didn't touch on is the "fix" warning symbol. Have you covered this in other videos?
Good news. It won't take you long. It's pretty simple, easy to use, etc. Ah, fix is just saying "Hey, you might want to double check "X." Could be text off the page, low resolution on an image or something else. The fix button is trying to save us from ourselves. And just do you know, I have the warning all the time. You have the option of dismissing all of them.
@@DANIELMILNOR505 Got it! Seems like the preview will show you if you actually need to fix anything.
Oh Mr.Dan ! ..Oh Mr. Dan ! I went and did a silly thing ! You know that grayed out page at the end and the beginning ? (Come on, you know you do ! ) Um..I somehow deleted it (Yes I know..) Um..is..is there a way I can get it back ? Please ? For Christmas sake then ? Deep bow !
Grayed out page? Hmm, not sure. You can add pages with the + button at the upper right. Does that make sense?
Are you thinking on continuing with your podcast? I really enjoyed listening to it
I am. For no other reason than I love talking about a far wider range of material than I cover on this channel. Like is just too interesting.
I’ve always used Booksmart, but I found Bookwright a little less intuitive. I’ll have to give it another try. Can you move individual pages around? Thank you for this video.
Oh ya. My favorite button in BW is the "manage pages" button which allows you to see the entire publication and drag and drop pages.
What happens when your book is complete though? Are you able to export the project file and print it somewhere local?
In the UK so I don't think printing from Blurb is an option.
You can print from the UK. We are global. You can export a PDF file as well as the actual BookWright file but the UK is a huge market for us.
@@DANIELMILNOR505 Oh wow, I'm horrendously mistaken! Thanks Dan 😁
How do I keep the bottom of my magazine from getting cut off ? My page numbers are always getting cut off.
That sounds like a problem on our end. Send CS a photo and have it reprinted. Unless you are just putting the numbers in too close to the trim line. Use the trim safe area feature so you know where the trim will happen.
@@DANIELMILNOR505 is the trim safe area the dotted line or the pink part? I will contact customer service and see if it’s my fault. Thank you.
I got a question. Can you make a finished pdf from Bookwright? I mean, I finish my project and then...I guess I can submit to Blurb or just save in my computer as a pdf file. The program would allow me do that?
Great vid btw.
You can do a low res PDF before you upload. You can do a high res but only if you purchase it.
@@DANIELMILNOR505 Understood. Thank you Daniel.
Does it work with iPad Pro?
Nope. But stay tuned.
It's not that I hate your software: but it has nothing to do with writing a book description, also called a "book blurb". So it's misleading and confusing and will generate hatred and then indifference. I have no intention of ever making a cofee table book. I can't say anything good about your product, even if it were good, ignorance aside, because if you will mislead about your product, what else are you dishonest about?
The first six minutes is useless. I couldn't get past that.