BLURB Photo Books & Premium Magazines - And Why I Love Them 

Thanks so much! This is an easy subject for me to be excited about, and one that I feel has so much value to us as photographers, artists and visual storytellers. Congrats on the sales too! That's awesome!

That's awesome Shareef! I'm sure you're going to love it!

Thanks Peter (and you're welcome). I'm psyched to have given you a nudge in the right direction!

Glad it was helpful!

Glad it was helpful! I understand your hesitation, especially after having tested several online self-publishing platforms, but honestly, I think you'll be very happy with Blurb's magazine quality, and at such a low price point, it's definitely worth trying out to see if it meets your needs.

I appreciate that!

Thank you for the kind words Gary... Everybody has to start somewhere, and I'm grateful for all 172 of you! Please let me know how your book progress comes along!

@@drewcain Totally agree with Gary

Hey Ricardo, sorry for the slow reply, RU-vid held your comment for review (no idea why). Here's a link to the ring - bit.ly/3hXDFAg

Honestly, I've never liked lay flat books. The pages are always really thick and they don't feel (to me) as premium as a well done classic photo book. I'm sure they're great for wedding albums and stuff like that, but for me they just don't feel right. Also, doing a 100+ page book with those thick lay flat pages would be a massive final product that just doesn't serve the purpose of the book for me. I have maybe 2-3 wide panorama shots that I've chosen to span both pages with and the trade-off of having that tiny percentage of shots lay flat just doesn't justify going lay-flat. Primarily though, I just really don't like those thick stiff pages.

No actually. I did a bunch of research, reading and watched the only video I could find on the subject at the time and just decided to take the leap (and I think they had a promo offer at the time for 50% off or something that made the first one somewhat reasonable to do as a test). We'd tried other online publishers in the past for another business with moderate success but nobody at the time was really offering a book of this quality as a one-off. It was a lucky gamble for sure, which is why I decided to do a video on the book, so other folks would at least have a benchmark and a solid opinion when spending that kind of cash.

Drew Cain thank you for your reply! I might do the magazine first and see how it goes. That way I can also check the color and exposure. I’m concerned about spending a bunch and everything turns out too dark or off color. Once again, I liked your video!

Good call on the magazine first. The only thing I'd say is to keep in mind that the pages in the premium books are slightly heavier and glossier than the magazine (from what I recall), so if your color and contrast looks good in magazine form it's going to be even better in the book.

Absolutely Keith, and the B&W images I've had in my books have had excellent contrast with detail in the deep blacks and lots of retention in the highlights as well.