3.10.2014
Seventh Year Blurb
Like I mentioned in my last post, I have been slacking on posting here, which is normal these days. Usually however it is because of work getting in the way, which is still generally true, but recently I have also been devoting a lot of my free time to catching up on my annual albums and albums of our trips. I was nearly 2 years behind on the books and as of yesterday I am 100% caught up and even have the books uploaded and ordered for the our eight year of marriage and our Ireland trip. The one from our seventh year of marriage has been here for a couple of weeks. As usual there are some pages missing from here, any that have photos of other people's kids, but you still get a pretty good idea of our year.
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I love this! It makes me painfully aware of how far behind I am in my blurb books. So far I've only done two trips. Did you make your own templates in Photoshop or did you use the Blurb ones? I'm just wondering how you got them to post here if you used the blurb templates... Thanks for sharing!
Christina - I have tried using the blurb templates but I always want something just a little different than what they have. I make my own in PS and save them as templates that I can catalog in LR and open from there when I want to make a new page. That has really allowed me to make pages much faster! I keep all my PSDs of the pages I make and import those into LR as well and then I can export off a small JPG copy to post here.
Thanks! So you can create a template in PS, open it in LR and then put pictures into it in LR or does that take you back to Photoshop (and you put the pictures in the Photoshop way with layers). I tried the Blurb plugin for LR awhile ago and wasn't happy with it so I've been using the Blurb templates which aren't always what I want either. If you're telling me I can somehow drag and drop pix in LR into a homemade template, I'd definitely do that! Thanks for sharing again!
I create a template in PS. Save it as a PSD in a folder of templates. Import the files in that folder into LR. Then to use them I have to take that template back to PS. I just "catalog" them in LR, so I can pick the one I want more easily. Then I right click and "edit in PS CC" and then I have to put the photos into the template in PS.
Like you I was HOPING to find a way to edit the blurb templates IN LR and just work in LR. I did a lot of digging around and as much as adobe might claim you can cutomize templates in LR5. The functionality is marginal. All you can do is move images around within the boxes they aready gave you. You can't add more images, or move the overall image box. I hope they improve that someday.
Aha! Got it. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. My attention span is so short these days I was afraid I gave up on researching it thoroughly :-). Anyway, thanks and keep those lovely pictures coming! Right now my most heavily used lens is that 24-70 but I'm hoping some day I'll get a macro :-)
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