LR4 Photobook

[Åmund]

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Hi!

 

I bought LR4 mainly because of the new photobook producing ability. I have used Japan Photo until now. They have a good enough product for my purposes, but I don't think it very user friendly. So I was very exited when I tried to make my first photo book on Blurb. The instructions on screen was quite logical and more than enough for me. So I finished the layout and wanted to export it to Blurb. I then found it took several eternities to transfer the images. It was quite a large book, but when estimated time got to 8 hours and something I cut. I sent it to Japan Photo instead and the transfer took about 5 minutes.

 

Did I do anything wrong? Have any of you had a similar experience?

 

Åmund

[vanhulsenbeek]

Hi!

 

I bought LR4 mainly because of the new photobook producing ability. I have used Japan Photo until now. They have a good enough product for my purposes, but I don't think it very user friendly. So I was very exited when I tried to make my first photo book on Blurb. The instructions on screen was quite logical and more than enough for me. So I finished the layout and wanted to export it to Blurb. I then found it took several eternities to transfer the images. It was quite a large book, but when estimated time got to 8 hours and something I cut. I sent it to Japan Photo instead and the transfer took about 5 minutes.

 

Did I do anything wrong? Have any of you had a similar experience?

 

Åmund

 

That is strange. Up till now I have used - before LR4 - Blurb many times, usually for the biggest size book. My last book was more than 50 pages, lots of photo's. Took 15 minutes. I would contact Blurb if I were you; perhaps there is a bottleneck in the LR4 uploads?

[andybarton]

The LUF charity book, with 100 photos each of which was around 8MB maybe, took roughly 45 minutes to upload.

 

But that was via Blurb's own software, not LR4