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Unfortunately, however, if you then alter the image in an external photo editor, the file will not automatically refresh in BookMaker you'll need to resave the image, reload it into the book library, and replace it on the page.
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Fortunately, the software alerts you when photo falls below the optimal size for a particular placement by highlighting the image with a red outline. Given the software's pretty hefty resolution requirements (a full-page image in a classic book needs to be at least 2,040 pixels wide at 180 dpi), I did have to do some prep work in Adobe Photoshop-especially on images that I wanted to fill more than one-third of a page. But in order to make the program as easy to understand as possible, many more granular photo adjustments (such as removing red-eye, adjusting resolution, and fine-tuning colors) have been left out. Tools include an automatic color adjustment, black-and-white switching, cropping, rotating, and zoom. Once you've placed an image on the page, you can perform a few tweaks from within the program. Laying out a complete book took only about half an hour. But selecting page layouts for anywhere from one to six images (with or without captions) is also easy enough, making the process ideal for us control freaks. If you take the time to set your images in the order you want them to appear in the book, clicking on Auto-Build will place and arrange your images in a few seconds.
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Another welcome addition, custom dust jackets in over a dozen layouts, adds from $4.95 to $8.95 to the cost.įor my trial run, I selected a subdued, classic, and clean layout for pictures from a vacation in San Francisco-pictures that had been collecting virtual dust on my hard drives for nearly two years. Extra pages for the three different book sizes are $0.49, $0.99, and $2.99 each. Each book starts out with 20 double-sided pages and can fit up to 100. Prices are pretty reasonable: Pocket-size books (7.75 by 5.75 inches) start at $12.95 "classic" hardcovers (11.25 by 8.75 inches) run $29.80 with linen covers and $39.90 with leather and a "deluxe" book (15 by 11.5 inches), available in linen only, costs $59.80. Those of us with little or no scrapbooking skill will welcome the addition, in BookMaker 2.1, of prefab templates for wedding, vacation, and new-baby albums. Loading images from your hard drive into BookMaker is simple and intuitive-just make sure they look the way you want them to before you open them in the software (but more on that later).
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You do the actual book building locally, on your Windows or Mac system, using MyPublisher's free BookMaker software, which downloads in about 30 seconds over a broadband connection. Those who like the traditional picture-windowed cover can still opt for it, however.
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With the introduction of custom book jackets, My Publisher books have a more polished and professional feel than the older, linen-covered designs. With all the Kodak Galleries, SnapFishes, and ShutterFlys of the world, it's hard to distinguish one online photo site from the other, but MyPublisher and its companion BookMaker software stand out from the pack for the quality of their photo books. (Guilty.) Photo-organizing and book-making sites such as can help the less-organized among us actually let those photos see the light of day. We still have piles-well, megs-of images filling up our hard drives and memory cards. You'd think things would be different now that we've gone digital. The rest of us shove them into overflowing shoeboxes or milk crates. The hyper-organized people among us (and how many of those are there?) immediately slap the shots into scrapbooks and albums. The resulting prints always end up in one of two places. For as long as every Tom, Dick, and Harry have been able to afford cameras, odds are they've had one-if not several-knocking around the house.

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