Almost two years ago I posted about my desire to print books of our old vacation photos. Well, I’ve finally done it for our trip to Kenya in 2005! I chose Blurb to print my book, primarily because they provided a plugin for Adobe InDesign (rather than forcing me to use their limited design tools like many other photo book printers out there). Now that I have my book in hand, I’m quite impressed with the print quality. Since I’ve already come up with the layout, it should be easy enough to drop in different vacation photos and print a book for each of our past trips. It will be nice to bring all my digital memories into the tangible world.
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That looks AWESOME! It is a professional coffeetable book and the photos look incredible. I love the croping of the giraffe one. Beautiful. Can a beginner computer person do a decent job on the ‘Blurb’ sight? Are their instructions easy to follow?
Blurb does have some predesigned templates available. I didn’t use them so I can’t say for sure, but they can’t be that hard since Blurb calls them “Easy-to-Use Templates”! :)
we used blurb’s online program to make a photo book of our nephew’s first birthday, and the online templates were relatively easy to use. If you’re really a beginner I would suggest letting the program automatically fill the book for you, and then you can make any small modifications. It was a little simplified for me, so I’ll be trying the plug-in next time (thanks for the tip – we still have to print our wedding photos!)
It looks great, Amanda. I went to Kenya when I was 16 and LOVED it.
I hope I get to go back again someday! (And bring along a better camera! ;)
Very nice! I traveled to Kenya before the days of digital cameras, so I have a little album of below-average prints. :( Your book looks lovely!
That’s a great idea. I still haven’t done one for our wedding photos and I really need to get on that. I might have to look into Blurb. Your photos look amazing!
Amazing idea. Why not share your journey in a nice coffee book. I have longed to go on a safari and witness the Elephants in their natural habitat. Seriously jealous.
I switched over to Blurb because of their option to use InDesign and upload your final pdfs. I couldn’t find another company that offered that service. I also love that they have color profiles for their printers that you can import into Photoshop. That way you can see your photos on YOUR monitor how they will actually PRINT. I have been so impressed with their book quality.
so glad you finally did this! it looks amazing, of course. :)
Aww thanks Bo!!! :)
Most excellent! I have pictures of a Kenyan internship that are doing no good sitting in my iPhoto – thanks for the inspiration :)
Oh wow, that looks really nice! For my private books I usually use http://www.fotobuch.de, a German company, but now, I think I’ll start a try with blurb because of the indesign option. Thanks for sharing that information!!
Katja
Love your book! Pictures are amazing from what I can see on the blog. Might try this ‘Blurb’ myself.
Thanks for bloggin about this. Love your blog! I’ll be visiting again :)
Rubee
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This looks great, what paper type did you choose?
I chose their basic, standard paper option.
Did you like it, and order it again for your new book?
Yes, I liked it a lot and used the same standard paper for all my new books as well. :)
Awesome! I will do that too then. I also love your idea of shooting the wall with the blank cards and then pasting in the images in InDesign (I might steal some of that.)
Go for it! :)