Finally finished – our New Zealand photo book, on Blurb.com
My New Zealand holiday photos had been sitting around on my hard drive for about six months already, all the while I’ve been intending to get around to putting a photobook together. Well, this week Sonia and I told ourselves enough was enough and we spent a few nights after work picking our best shots, signing up to blurb and using their software to create ourselves a little memento of our trip.
I originally wanted to design the book using Adobe InDesign so the reason we used Blurb is that it was the only book-printing company that we could find who would print from your own PDFs. However once I signed up and had a little look at their own layout software I really couldn’t believe how easy and flexible it was, so we ended up just using that! Now the only real drawback of using Blurbs software is that you don’t have a PDF file of your book which you could share about the web and all that good stuff. They do however make a “preview” available which you can share on facebook, embed into web sites and email to friends etc (as above). I just had to make the preview display all pages (as opposed to actually being a partial preview) and embed some html into this page.
It’s all pretty cool stuff and we can’t wait to get our book in the post (all the way from America no less!).
