1. Blurb Indesign Template
2. Blurb Booksmart Software

New Self-Publishing Options from Blurb and Book. They have an excellent Adobe InDesign plugin that puts Blurb’s book templates. Unfortunately Booksmart. How to use Bookwright Templates? The zip files for the Blurb templates unpack into folders. I did not have any issue downloading BookSmart and BookWright. New Blurb Designer Book Templates. Blurb about them: New Designer Templates. Are now available in the latest version of BookSmart but it was quick and easy.

The family albums I mentioned working on a couple of weeks ago arrived over the weekend! I have gotten a lot of questions about the details of my book, so I’ll try to bullet list a bunch of things you all have asked about:.

Company – This year I created my book through. Size – I did the 12″ x 12″ book and am THRILLED!

The photos are large and so is the book. It isn’t obnoxious bigjust right.

Rob and smith operative surgery pdf. I like it so much better than the smaller 8.72″ x 11.25″ books I’ve done in the past. Paper – I had to use the standard paper because my book got too big (250+ pages) and I no longer had the option for upgraded paper. However, I am very happy with the standard paper. Text – My books are photos only. I plan to add some hand written text eventually. I know if I tried to add text while creating the books, I would never finish them.

So, I opt to have books with no text verses no books at all. I also like the idea of the handwritten text – makes them feel a little more like my grandma’s photo albums with names written on the back of photos!. Design software – I used the Blurb BookSmart software and the Modern Family templates from Design Aglow. The templates are set up for a 10×10 book, but they worked just fine for the 12×12 book.

I didn’t really understand the BookSmart software at first. Once I got the hang of it I started using it more than the other templates. Next time I’ll just use the BookSmart templates and customize them. Cover – I did the wrap around cover and really like it.

How are my photos organized – on how I organize photos, I still do basically the same. Extra copy – I always order 2 yearly albums. One is tucked away safely. The other is left out for us to enjoy.

I don’t harp on the kids to be so careful that they are afraid the thumb the pages. I want them to enjoy the booksas they enjoy photos they are more willingly to continue to not mind my camera out all the time. Overall, I am so happy with the bigger Blurb book this year. In the past I used a company that had a 100 page limit so I had to divide the year into two books. Though I really liked the product, I’ve always just wanted the whole year in one book.

I’ll be sticking with Blurb. Here is a look at our 2011 book A size comparison.

This year I added small square pictures in the very back of the book of all my projects from the year. I think it will be fun thing to look back on one day.

When the book arrived, the older boys began devouring each page. They were joined by another little boy. And a little girl wanted to join, but didn’t get her way. I enjoy our family books for so many reasons. One of the biggest is how it makes my heart overflow in gratitude. To look back and see all that we enjoyed and overcame.

To see a glimpse of the days gone. To see how much we’ve changed and stayed the same. To be reminded of just how incredible the plain days of our lives are. To see photos of everyday life that capture incredible beauty – more than any exotic location travel book could. It isn’t the picture quality or the paper quality. It is just the culmination of so many of our ‘boring’ stories that together are anything but boring. It makes me thankful for all of it.

And all of it is just so good for my soul. When I was a kid my family took a trip to Alaska (from VA). My dad bought a bus and drove it across country, two months later my sister and I flew out to meet him and my mom and my aunt left home to drive to Washington and ferry up to meet us. It was an amazing trip, that even as a four year old, has left me a lifetimes worth of memories. My parents have since divorced and my Dad has mentioned for years how he wished he had copies of the photos upon photos that were taken throughout the trip. I had decided to copy them, since we are without the original negatives, and give them to him as a present. Now I KNOW that I want to give them to him in a book like this!

Now, to just get to scanning these prints and hope it doesn’t take years. Your book turned out great! Those are amazing.

I’m seriously considering doing this. My boys are 4 and (almost!) 7. But I only started taking decent pictures 2-3 years ago. Also, I don’t have nearly as many of you NOR is our family as interesting. I have such mom guilt! But the first years don’t have to be huge books – I can look at it like we have really grown since the beginning! I’m also such a “frugal” person so it’s so hard to fork over cash for a high quality book – but what a great way to catalogue all of your photos for the year.

Instead of having them sit on my C drive. Thanks for giving examples of the book and some of the details. This may be my fall project. (Or at least a couple years to catch up, for now!).

Blurb Indesign Template

Lacey -Hi Ashley- This is totally off-topic from your post, but my husband is budding apologist and we were in Broken Arrow this past weekend so he could attend the “On Guard” conference at your church. On the drive home he was telling me about this one pastor who was a great encouragement to him and explained him as “the type of person who made you excited to be apart of the body of Christ”. It turns out it was your husband! I thought it was especially exciting because you have been such an encouragement to me, and it was neat to see your husband do the same in my husband’s life. Thank you to your family for living out Christ’s message.Love your photobook. Your kids will cherish them in the years to come.

Blurb Booksmart Software

So, I was designing my family’s 2012 album in MyPublisher and reached the 100 pg. I haven’t reached Halloween yet and that’s with cramming too many photos on some of my layouts! I’ve downloaded BookSmart as an alternative, but I’m kind of disappointed in the page layout options.

Would you be willing to share the layout templates you customized? Feeling a little overwhelmed with the task of redoing my entire yearly book. iPhone pics from our last few months in Brisbane.I plan (optimistically) to put together a photo book for each coming year. Rather than follow the January to December year, I’m doing November to October, to coincide with each year of marriage (our anniversary is November 19). If it’s not too expensive, I’d really like to print two copies each year – one to keep out and look at all the time and one to store away as a family keepsake. I was inspired by one of my new favourite bloggers – Ashley Ann of Under the Sycamore – because I loved seeing photos of her kids going through their family albums.

Marnie -I know this is an old post, but may I ask you a related question Ashley? I have used Blurb a few times for my photobooks and have also been delighted by the quality, BUT the images are always way darker than on the computer screen. I understand the different colour systems of monitors vs ink and the backlighting issue, but it looks as though your images came out just right (although I haven’t seen the originals, of course).Here’s my question – What did you do ensure the images were not too dark? I know you are busy and I will understand if you don’t get time to answer.