Blurb Photobooks - help with editing please!

[Astraeus]

I am in the process of making a Blurb photobook on BookSmart but I've encountered a couple of problems.

1. How do I rearrange the order of pages? I want to shift a double-page spread forward in the order a bit.

2. Can you write on these with a felt tip pen? I'm hoping a few of the birthday girl's friends will sign it for her.

3. Can anyone say whether having full-colour backgrounds with a photo of them works well? For some holiday photos, I was going to have a panorama of the location and then photos of the holiday in boxes on top.

4. Some of the photos go beyond the pink "trim guidelines" but don't reach to the very edge of the paper. I don't want white outlines around them so what can I do to ensure that the pink trim guidelines are where the book is actually trimmed?

Thanks.

 

[redhed17]

For question number one, in edit view you click on the page you wish to move on the tiny thumbnails at the bottom so it becomes the main large picture, but then just drag the active thumbnail to where you want it to be. If that makes some sense. The tiny thumbnail with the orange outline is the one you can move.

No idea about the other questions. :shrug:

 

[Astraeus]

For question number one, in edit view you click on the page you wish to move on the tiny thumbnails at the bottom so it becomes the main large picture, but then just drag the active thumbnail to where you want it to be. If that makes some sense. The tiny thumbnail with the orange outline is the one you can move.

No idea about the other questions. :shrug:

Makes perfect sense!

Thanks very much for the speedy reply. I'd not even had the thumbnails displayed on my workscreen so had to 'drag' the toolbar up. That's about as easy as I'd hoped it'd be! :bang:

 

[Gordon F]

on the query about full bleed printing of images....they cannot guarantee where the trim will be so you just have to make sure you go over the trim guide and be prepared for some cropping.

Re felt tip pen...I have not written on mine but I am sure you will be able to.

re pic on pic. Not done a picture on top of another so cannot comment

Gordon

 

[33L]

backgrounds i usually make b&w and colour image on top jsut so there is some seperation!

 

[Astraeus]

on the query about full bleed printing of images....they cannot guarantee where the trim will be so you just have to make sure you go over the trim guide and be prepared for some cropping.

Re felt tip pen...I have not written on mine but I am sure you will be able to.

re pic on pic. Not done a picture on top of another so cannot comment

Gordon

Thanks. I've gone as close to the edge of the page as I can with all of the photos without risking losing some of the essence of the photograph. Do I just have to pray I don't get white borders on my pages where they're not wanted?

 

[Mustard shots]

One way of handling the background image (but prevent it fighting with the top images) would be to slightly de-saturate or wash it out generally. If it were me I'd think hard about foreground to background - if there's too much going on it'll look messy. Might be nice to have your image ghosted in the background while the others pop out and tell the story?

BTW - not long had my first Blurb book delivered and am very pleased with the result! Make sure you follow their advice and print a copy first. I didn't and some of the bits of text on pics which looked fine on screen almost disappeared in reality - classic schoolboy error on my behalf :bonk:

Pete