Perfect Photo Books with Blurb
Turn Your Digital Photos Into Printed Works of Art
You just want to create - not mess around with formatting and publishing. Now you can have your cake and eat it too, with a tool that makes photo books simple.
Artists, illustrators, and camera-happy moms will be excited to hear about a new self-publishing resource that is making it fun and easy to combine two of your favorite things - photos and paper. Born from a blog-to-book service, Blurb is a publishing system in beta that is making users of all ages and abilities the star of their own coffee tables.
Blurb is a self-publishing service that facilitates the formatting process of text and photo books for you with a free software called BookSmart. On your own time, on your own schedule, in the comfort of your own home, you can play around with all the options to design something you love. Most self-publishing services accommodate images and Blurb downright facilitates them. Whether it's one photo among your text or just a few words among your photos, you get to choose the placement and frequency for your eye candy.
What can Blurb do for the photo fan in all of us?
1. Software to make it simple
While self-publishing resources are moving towards the hold-my-hand philosophy, Blurb hits it right off the bat. There is no guesswork on your part as far as what you need to buy, download, or do, and BookSmart keeps the learning curve short. Use it to arrange, rearrange, and format your images, in a user-friendly, visually-based setting. What you see is what you get, there's no guesswork.
2. Free to try with no commitment and no minimum orders
All you need to do to get started is sign up for a free account. Until you are ready, you'll never be obligated to make a purchase. Pay only for what you want to print. This means you can play around to your heart's content and never be pressured by deadlines. Need a copy of Amie's school art for Grandma Sally? Print a single copy. Want to add a personalized insert for Aunt Lucy? Just a few minutes is all it takes to design customized gifts.
3. Puts memories where they belong
What do baby's first steps, the Eiffel Tower, s'mores by the campfire, and the sinkhole in your driveway have in common? They are all memories that don't deserve to be hidden away. (Well, maybe the sinkhole does.) Babies, weddings, school art, and hobby photos will never get lost in a drawer or stuffed in a box again. With the ease and convenience of Blurb, there is no reason for digital photos to stay hidden on your camera forever.
Printing images on your desktop printer can get expensive and time consuming. Blurb offers professional quality, four-color printing at a reasonable per-book price. If seeing your artwork in print sounds appealing, Blurb is well worth a try.
Visit Blurb.com to find out more about turning your photos into a book.
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