![]() When you choose to print directly via Blurb, you must select a book size and format, cover option, paper type and whether to include the Blurb logo on the last page, which discounts the estimated book price. A single book destined for Blurb can have as many as 240 pages. and 13 x 11 in.) You can also designate a background graphic or solid color via the Background panel. and 12 x 12 in.), portrait (8 x 10 in.), and landscape formats (10 x 8 in. Lightroom offers five book sizes of square (7 x 7 in. Among the choices you'll have to consider are book size and format. Increasing the padding amount (in this case to 99), increases the gap equally on all four sides, which means that the image is being cropped as well.Ĭreating a book, even with a selection of great images and pre-built templates, involves a lot of design decisions and fine-tuning. At the default value of 0 (shown here) the image butts against the cell border. The Cell panel allows you to specify additional padding for an image's edges in relation to its photo cell border. A warning icon will be displayed in the top right corner of the image if the intended zoom results in image resolution below 200ppi. Moving the slider to the right does not upsample the image. In this instance, though, the image to be replaced remains in the layout, swapping positions with the image you have just moved.īy default, Lightroom fills an image to its cell borders (a Zoom to Fit option can be set via the Book Preferences box).Ĭlicking on an image in the layout automatically brings up the Zoom slider (shown here) by which you can scale an image manually. You can also click and drag an image already on a page to another page. Any preexisting image will in the photo cell will be replaced. You can move images onto pages by dragging thumbnails from the Filmstrip directly onto a the photo cell of a page. You can add or delete pages manually by right-clicking on a page thumbnail. If you'd prefer to create and populate book pages manually, you can disable Lightroom's default autofill option by going to Book>Book Preferences and unchecking the 'Start new books by autofilling' option. Once you've organized your image collection in the Library module you navigate to the Books module (Opt+Cmd+4 on a Mac, Alt+Ctrl+4 on Windows) which, by default generates an Auto Layout, creating book pages to accommodate all of the images in your Collection and arranging them in the order in which they have been sorted in the Collection. ![]() The subset of catalog images that will make up your book must reside in a Collection, so the first step, obviously is to create one (a Quick Collection works as well). You can right-click inside the Page panel to add the current layout to a user-defind Favorites category. You can access the Modify Page flyout menu by clicking on the triangle icon (circled in red) in the Page panel. Lightroom ships with a large selection of pre-built templates spread among 13 descriptive categories to aid searching. ![]() The Books module is template-driven and while you cannot design a custom page template, Lightroom comes with a large variety of pre-built page designs that accommodate single and multi-image pages, two-page spreads and several image and text combination options. You can cycle through each one using Cmd/Ctrl+plus to zoom in, Cmd/Ctrl+minus to zoom out, or use the view-specific shortcuts shown below. Whatever type of book you create, you'll spend a good deal of time inspecting its pages. While you can output your final layout in PDF form, Lightroom 4 provides a direct link to Blurb, the popular self-publishing service, complete with real-time price estimates that update as you specify book size and add or delete pages. ![]() With Lightroom 4 you now have the ability to create and design books via a brand new Book module. ![]()
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