First Edition
Sun. September 21, 2008 (DAY 160)

Finally!!!
After 10 years dreaming about it,
I printed my first photography book. YAY!!

This is the first proof from Blurb. Not really sure about the quality of the print. Some of my photos look canvasy? Maybe that's just my photo files that suck. Since this is for personal use only, I'm a happy camper!

NOTE: The cover photo was taken in Carita Beach, Indonesia.

Since Bill asked, here are my thoughts about Blurb:
* The program is very user friendly. Easy to move stuff around (photos or pages)
* I ordered 7x7 inches, 40 page and I got 70 photos in there.
* Love the quality of their 'matte' (not glosy) hardcover image wrap for $24.95
* I also ordered their glosy softcover for exactly the same book. It's nice & a lot cheaper ($12.95)
* Looks professional enough for me.
* The colors look great! That's very important.
* You do want to TRIPLE check everything (wording, spacing, composition, etc) before you order.
* I don't know why some of my shots came out/printed like on the canvas. I wonder if that's something to do with Picasa processing or their printer. Will see if it happens on the second edition.
* One of the photo, the sunflower, looks over saturated. It doesn't show on my computer screen, but it does on the book. Again, I think that's my mistake on post-processing. So you want to be careful on that.
* Overall? so far... I love it!

Next time, I'll be extra carefull on my post-processing & probably will switch from Picasa to something better. Picasa is very easy & fast but I read (and Bill informed me) that it is one of the worst free program out there. I hate to do a lot of post-processing... but I think I will have to switch to a new software soon.

First Edition
Sun. September 21, 2008 (DAY 160)

Finally!!!
After 10 years dreaming about it,
I printed my first photography book. YAY!!

This is the first proof from Blurb. Not really sure about the quality of the print. Some of my photos look canvasy? Maybe that's just my photo files that suck. Since this is for personal use only, I'm a happy camper!

NOTE: The cover photo was taken in Carita Beach, Indonesia.

Since Bill asked, here are my thoughts about Blurb:
* The program is very user friendly. Easy to move stuff around (photos or pages)
* I ordered 7x7 inches, 40 page and I got 70 photos in there.
* Love the quality of their 'matte' (not glosy) hardcover image wrap for $24.95
* I also ordered their glosy softcover for exactly the same book. It's nice & a lot cheaper ($12.95)
* Looks professional enough for me.
* The colors look great! That's very important.
* You do want to TRIPLE check everything (wording, spacing, composition, etc) before you order.
* I don't know why some of my shots came out/printed like on the canvas. I wonder if that's something to do with Picasa processing or their printer. Will see if it happens on the second edition.
* One of the photo, the sunflower, looks over saturated. It doesn't show on my computer screen, but it does on the book. Again, I think that's my mistake on post-processing. So you want to be careful on that.
* Overall? so far... I love it!

Next time, I'll be extra carefull on my post-processing & probably will switch from Picasa to something better. Picasa is very easy & fast but I read (and Bill informed me) that it is one of the worst free program out there. I hate to do a lot of post-processing... but I think I will have to switch to a new software soon.