Trim and “safe area” guidelines will help you identify areas of images that may get trimmed off or hidden, and the software’s intelligent engine will inform you of any photo that is too small or other printing issues. There is a built-in dictionary that will spell check all text in the book. When you are ready to order your book, just click the blue button and BookSmart will remind you to check certain things before proceeding. Once you are happy with your planner, click the Preview button and you can view every page and make sure everything is exactly as you want it when it is printed. You can then just drag imported Photos to the box, or click in text areas to add copy. Simply click the Edit Layout button to add image boxes or text areas. BookSmart also lets you customize the layout of nearly any page. When you add new pages to your book, you can select from plenty of layouts for positioning photos and text. Add ornaments or backgrounds to any single page, or all pages at once. The font, size, color, and position of this text is easily changed. Text can be added to any day on the calendar for including holidays and any important dates to remember. Each month is followed by two-page spreads displaying a week at a glance with ample room for planning appointments, birthdays, celebrations and other important events, as well as a notes section at the bottom of every page, with room for more images. Of course, you can easily edit this layout or add more pages. The BookSmart weekly planner template includes a full page image area at the beginning of each month, next to a full calendar grid. You might choose to have different photos on the front and back covers. We started by designing our cover and created the wrap-around effect above by dragging the same photo to both the back and front, at the same size, and positioning them just right. Once you have imported your photos, the fun begins! But don’t worry, you can add more photos to use any time. Or, you may choose to make a Facebook Photo book using Blurb and the favorite photos from your Facebook albums. You can import photos from your computer, iPhoto, Flickr, Photobucket and other sources. After clicking Start a new book, we were able to select the size of book we wanted – in this case a pocket size weekly planner – and import photos to use. The first step was to download and launch the free BookSmart software.īookSmart keeps track of all the books you create. We chose to make our custom book the easy way. Limited Time Offer:Ģ5% Off Blurb Books with Black Friday Coupon: HOLIDAYTHANKS If you have graphic capabilities you can upload completed designs to Blurb or use their InDesign templates. This software is intuitive, powerful, and smart! It includes many templates you can use as is or you can customize your layout, and it will even warn you if your photos are too small. With Blurb BookSmart, creating your own custom planner - or any photo book - is as easy as selecting your photos and dragging them where you want them. How to Make Custom Weekly Planner Photo Book on Blurb But honestly, you could probably just read on for a few basic tips, then go ahead and make your own custom planner in about the same amount of time! The 37 minute video below, describes in detail how to create any custom photo book using Blurb BookSmart. And Blurb makes the process for making a custom planner featuring your favorite photos so easy, we wanted to share it with you here. We were so happy with how it turned out, we’ve added it to the Tripawds Blurb bookstore. After receiving so many pawesome pictures for the 2013 Tripawds Calendar designs, we decided to make a custom weekly planner with Blurb.
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