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video Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Book (37 Minutes)

video Blurb BookSmart® Design Tips and Techniques (26 minutes)

video Using InDesign® to Make a Blurb Book (3:33)

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Step-by-Step Tips and Tutorials

video PDF to Book: Creating a Softcover with Adobe® InDesign® (6:33) This video walks the user through adjusting Blurb’s softcover template for Adobe® InDesign® CS2 through CS4, and will be helpful for users of all other page-layout software.
video Getting Great Color In Your Blurb Photo Books (39:16) This free webinar shows you how to get books with accurate and consistent color reproduction, using hardware and software to calibrate and profile your computer's monitor.
video How to use authonomy with Blurb BookSmart (6:06) Use BookSmart to slurp your content from Authonomy and publish your first novel, screenplay, short story collection or poetry works.
video Create B&W 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.
video What's new in Blurb BookSmart (5:24) Learn about the latest features in Blurb BookSmart® including text styles, justification, and locked pages.
video How to backup/export your book (2:37) Follow these simple steps to export your BookSmart file and import it to another computer.
video Make a custom Flickr photo book (3:27) This short video shows how easy it is to slurp your Flickr images into Blurb BookSmart.
video How to make a blog book (5:30) Learn how to slurp your Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, or WordPress.com content into BookSmart.
video Start a GroupBook project on Blurb (4:27) Learn how to start a GroupBook project directly from BookSmart and invite others to contribute.
doc 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.
doc 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.
doc Create a full-bleed spread across 2 pages Follow these step-by-step instructions to use one photo across two facing pages.
doc 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.
doc Import your custom design into BookSmart Use Adobe® Photoshop®, InDesign®, and other applications to create your own page designs and then import into BookSmart.
doc Edit and move multiple pages Follow these easy instructions to select and move or delete multiple book pages at once.
doc 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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