Featured Tutorials
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 InDesign® to Make a Blurb Book (3:33)
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.
Upcoming Events
You’ll find the Blurberati at these upcoming events:
- Focus on Imaging
Birmingham, England — March 7–10 - AIPAD Photo Show
New York, New York — March 18–21 - Semi-Permanent
Sydney, Australia — March 19–20 - FotoFreo
Fremantle, Australia — March 20–April 18 - AIGA 15th Annual Y-Conference
San Diego, California — March 25–27 - Palm Springs Photo Festival
Palm Springs, California — March 28–April 2
Step-by-Step Tips and Tutorials
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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What's new in Blurb BookSmart (5:24) | Learn about the latest features in Blurb BookSmart® including text styles, justification, and locked pages. |
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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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How to make a blog book (5:30) | Learn how to slurp your Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, or WordPress.com content into BookSmart. |
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Start a GroupBook project on Blurb (4:27) | Learn how to start a GroupBook project directly from BookSmart and invite others to contribute. |
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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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