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Bookwright software6/22/2023 In my opinion, an absolute beginner book / photo album maker could learn a lot more by starting out with a far more "let me do a lot of this for you" type of program. He spends a lot of time trying to encourage people who have never made a book before. Since the course goes through all the basic buttons, the course could be useful to an absolute beginner photo album maker, which is what Daniel clearly wants to achieve. Or, you could watch this course, save yourself a lot of time, and get information you didn't even think to ask about. You COULD teach yourself by pressing buttons and searching on-line forums like I did. What the course does do, of course, is explain the Blurb BookWright software. It probably have been useful for people using other programs and/or vendors as well. To do all these things would have required a day-long course rather than an hour-long course, but for me, that course would have been far more helpful. I'd have paid a lot of money to watch him cull photo's for two or three books, listening to his thought process while he chooses which photos to include and which to cry over and then leave out. He doesn't even give tips about what to think about when culling down your own photos. Unfortunately, Daniel doesn't go into how to go about doing so. Secondly: he shows you how to add a background color to your pages, but nothing about when to do that, why to do that, and how to do it well.Ī last example: Daniel's most important advice is to "edit tight" - SUPER important but for me, really difficult. The section on color management is basically "Remember to calibrate your screen and soft proof using an icc profile." If you don't know what either of those mean, this course won't teach you what it is, much less how to do it. ) and how important they are, but don't expect anything but a shout out to help you remember to do it well. It names all the steps (color management, edit, sequence. What the course does not do, however, is teach you how to make a book. As someone who learned Blurb by downloading the program and clicking away (from time to time searching some online forums) these are extremely useful things I wouldn't have known about any other way. In my case, I learned that Blurb has downloadable icc profiles as well as the ability to make low-res proof pdfs. I definitely learned a couple things, and given that I watched it during a free broadcast, it was totally worth the price of admission (in my case, 60 minutes of my time). It was also helpful to me as someone who has already made a few Blurb books already but wanted to learn to use it better. What I mean is, it is helpful for people who have made books and/or photo albums before and want to learn how to use Blurb. For example, if you design your book with 40 pages and you leave in the logo page you'll pay for 40 pages, not 42.This course is about how to use Blurb, not about how to make a book. However, the logo page doesn't apply towards your page count. You also can't add your own content/design to the logo page. You won't see the logo page when previewing your book since it's added during printing. Layflat Photo Books offer a solid white logo page only. The logo page can be solid white or solid black (your choice) with a blue Blurb logo. You can remove or leave in the logo page when uploading your Photo Book as seen in the screenshot below. How to remove or restore the Blurb logo page The logo page can't be added to those formats. Magazines and Trade Books (including journals and notebooks) made in BookWright automatically have the logo page removed. Only Photo Book formats have the option to remove or leave in the logo page. Removing the logo page increases the price of the book. The logo page is a solid-color page with the Blurb logo. If you're creating a Photo Book in Blurb's BookWright software you have the option to remove, or leave in, the Blurb logo page that will appear at the end of your book.
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