Blurb also lets you choose from 5 different paper types of which the Standard is the default product, while the Proline Pearl Photo is the best quality the company can offer.Īs for covers: you can pick a soft cover, a hard cover with your chosen image printed thereon and another hard cover made of black linen equipped with a dust jacket that you can customize to your own liking. You can choose from 5, albeit quite unusual sizes, in 3 shapes: square in 7×7 and 12×12, landscape in 10×8 and 13×11 and portrait in 8×10. Unlike the design templates, the sizes and available covers with Blurb are pretty straightforward. Thus you have to choose between less, more common templates with all sizes and more unique templates with just one available size. The problem is that, if you use any of the 8 additional templates, you can only create a book in the smallest available size, 7×7. However, you actually have 8 more options which can only be fetched from Blurb’s website: a template built from your Instagram photos, a template using your Facebook photos and 6 so-called designer photo book templates. ![]() If you start a book from scratch, the site offers you four templates to work with. The online editor is where choosing a template becomes confusing. After you’re done, you can share or download your book in PDF, turn it into an eBook, and order or even sell it in Blurb’s shop or Amazon. Despite these limitations and the editor’s primitive nature, creating a minimum 20-page long book is easy, especially due to such crucial features like the auto-save and the safe-zones. ![]() As for pictures, they cannot be stored on your account, and you can’t adjust them in a convenient manner: they can only be added to the page where you can rearrange them according to the many layout options (2-page spread is out of question), fit them to their frames, or rotate them. Unfortunately, there are not too many sizes and templates to work with, but at least the templates and the covers can be changed later. First of all, books cannot be created from your dashboard, as you are constantly directed to the page where you have to pick your editor. The online editor called Bookify is simple, but very basic at the same time. In fact, when you open the site from a mobile device, it warns you to use a PC or Mac instead. And before you ask, mobile versions are not available at all. Featuresīefore creating a photo book, you have to decide whether you want to use the online editor or download BookWright, Blurb’s software. And to make things even better, the final product is printed and delivered within a short period of time for very cost-friendly prices. No matter which part of the world you live in the company lets you create your book with ease, whether you use the obligatory 20 pages or go for all 440 pages. ![]() There are various themes, photo papers, covers and book sizes at your disposal in the software, which is available in 7 different languages. ![]() Whether you use the simple online editor Bookify with its straightforward customization tools, safe zones, auto-save feature and PDF import, or the BookWright software with the advanced features of the online editor and even more – you can be sure that your (photo) book is in good hands.
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