Featured Tutorials
Getting Started with Blurb BookSmart (2:12)
Take our 2-minute bookmaking tour and see how easy it is to get started with BookSmart.
Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Book (37 Minutes)
Learn how to: create your book; work with photos, text, and layouts; upload your book; and more.
Blurb BookSmart® Design Tips and Techniques (26 minutes)
For those who already know the basics of BookSmart, this intermediate session explores several design ideas you can use in your books.
Using Adobe® InDesign® to Make a Blurb Book (3:29)
A short three-minute introduction to using Adobe InDesign® to create compliant PDF files by using the Blurb PDF/X-3 Export Preset and the Blurb Templates.
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Step-by-Step Tips and Tutorials
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NEW: Introduction to Blurb's plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® (4:58) | Lightroom guru Jerry Courvoisier, of Lightroomworkshops.com introduces Blurb’s plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® and explains what they can bring to your bookmaking experience. Learn the key differences between the plug-ins for BookSmart and Bookify and find out which one will work best for your project. |
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How to Layout and Design Your Next Book Like a Pro (69:13) | Pro photographer and book designer Mat Thorne presents an introduction to book design principles, including typography, essentials of cover design, and laying out front & back matter. |
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Great Gift Book Ideas from Blurb (41:48) | In this webinar, we share some of our favorite books from Blurbarians the world over and show you tips and tricks for creating fantastic family photo books, cookbooks, memoirs, and travel books. |
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How to Sequence and Design Your Next Book Like a Pro: An Insider’s Guide (59:26) | Mat Thorne, pro photographer and design whiz, shares his secrets for great book design. Mat walks you through book design and layout essentials and touches upon every aspect of bookmaking, from workflow to typography to final layout. |
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How to Get the Best Color with Blurb’s PDF to Book (50:32) |
This webinar focuses on color management and our PDF to Book workflow. It is intended for creative pros using Adobe® InDesign® and other advanced bookmakers looking to learn more about PDF to Book and color. |
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Make Your Next Blurb Book with BookSmart® and onOne Software (53:25) | Blurb and onOne Software show you how to create stunning images quickly with onOne’s plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® and Lightroom. This webinar is ideal for intermediate to advanced photographers and bookmakers who have worked with Photoshop previously. |
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Compelling Cover Design (34:50) | The cover of your book is your best chance to catch someone’s eye. In this webinar, photography book editor Alan Rapp uses examples from iconic works and Blurb books alike, and shows how the cover draws the viewer in. |
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Color Management Resource Center | Our premier resource center gives the advanced user video and written help about print-on-demand color management and how it can be used with BookSmart or the PDF to Book workflow. |
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Adobe® Lightroom® to Blurb BookSmart®: Great Color Photos from Capture to Final Book! (54:10) |
In this webinar, we start from scratch using color calibrated images from Adobe Lightroom and the latest version of BookSmart to make a beautiful photo book with images that have the best color possible. |
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Get Great Color in Blurb Books! (52:24) | Want to make sure the color in your Blurb book rocks? Need the nitty gritty on color management for your Photography Book Now submission? This webinar covers the fine points of file preparation so that the color in your books is right on. |
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PDF to Book: Creating a Softcover with Adobe® InDesign® (4:44) | This video walks the user through adjusting Blurb’s softcover template for Adobe® InDesign® CS3 through CS4, and will be helpful for users of all other page-layout software. |
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Create Black and White Text Books with Blurb (21:42) | Featuring off-white, 60-pound text paper, black and white image capabilities, and full color covers; B/W Text has everything you need to publish your first novel, screenplay, short story collection, or poetry works. |
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How to backup/export your book (2:37) | Follow these simple steps to export your BookSmart file and import it to another computer. |
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Make a custom Flickr photo book (3:27) | This short video shows how easy it is to slurp your Flickr images into Blurb BookSmart. |
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Ten BookSmart tricks to impress your friends and confound your enemies | Show off your bookmaking prowess – check out these ten tips for faster, easier bookmaking. |
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Tip — adding text over photos | Creating high-impact chapter titles and section pages is a snap with these step-by-step instructions on adding a text overlay to your photos. |
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Create a full-bleed spread across 2 pages | Follow these step-by-step instructions to use one photo across two facing pages. |
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Archive, share, or transfer your book files | Create a copy of your book to archive or work on with another computer by following these simple instructions. |
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Import your custom design into BookSmart | Use Adobe® Photoshop®, InDesign®, and other applications to create your own page designs and then import into BookSmart. |
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Edit and move multiple pages | Follow these easy instructions to select and move or delete multiple book pages at once. |
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Keyboard shortcuts for BookSmart for both Mac and PC | Nothing says “Power User” like using keyboard shortcuts. We’ve mapped out all of the shortcuts in one spot. |
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