I chose to use BookWright because I had used it before and it’s very user friendly. You can also use BookWright’s import feature to transfer content from your blog straight into your book.
#Bookwright time to print free#
I gathered high-resolution photos for all my projects, and then plugged them into BookWright, Blurb’s own free publishing software. “Yarn Over” is a crochet term that you use in pretty much every crochet stitch, so I felt it was a fitting title for the book. To create my book, I decided to center it around simple crochet projects I’ve shared on my blog and some of my paid patterns. We already know and love Blurb’s photo books, which are great for printing family photos and memories.īut they also offer magazine and trade book formats that still have the great picture quality Blurb is known for, and they’re produced at a price that you can mark up and sell. So, when Blurb reached out to me about their new self-publishing format I was super stoked to try it out. There is also a lot less freedom in producing a book about what you want, the way you want. The thought of authoring my own DIY book has always been a distant dream.īooks are a ton of work and the opportunities with publishing companies are few and far between. The printing quality is vastly superior.This post was created in partnership with Blurb. Otherwise, I would have chosen CeWe (not sure in which countries this service is available).
#Bookwright time to print software#
Bookwright is the only software provided by a printing service that allows the text to flow over multiple pages and to automatically adjust if you make changes. My book has a lot of text (many pages) coming along with the photos. I elected to work with Blurb for only one reason. I know people who ordered from France and received the book(s) from the US or even from China. Each time, I had to pay 9 euros to my bank for "international payment" although the book was allegedly printed in the Netherlands (I ordered from France). I ordered 10 copies of my book and then 20 copies afterwards.
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Depending on the country in which your book is printed, additional costs may appear on your credit card (international payment, custom taxes.). Personally, I recently printed a book with Blurb and the result was acceptable (not top notch, though - CeWe are better).ĥ. In which case the result might be unacceptable and involve requesting a reprint. All subcontractors work with a unique standard ICC profile that they have to abide with (you can dowbload this profile and do some soft proofing against it). You don't even know in which country your book will be printed. I said "usually" because Blurb delegates printing to subcontractors. I think that you'll find similar opinions about this problem. So, you have to be confident that what you see in Bookwright is not what you'll get. Don't even try to ask the Blurb support about this issue, they won't even understand your question. It's just uncomfortable to work with these ugly images.
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So you have to check your images outside of Bookwright in a color managed viewer (or in Lightroom itself - if the exported image looks OK in LR, it should be OK in the printed book). But the print will usually be correct (see #4, though).
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In that case, the colors displayed in Bookwright will be oversaturated. So, the colors you are seeing in Bookwright are not the colors that will eventually be printed, especially if you have a wide gamut display. Moreover, it absolutely ignores your display profile.
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Surpringly enough, Bookwright is not color managed. In Bookwright you can easily import photos from the Lightroom catalog.ģ. You'll benefit from much more editing features when using Bookwright, no doubt.Ģ.