Blurb is an affordable printing service that allows you to produce your own high-quality photo books. Offering a wide range of sizes, from a Lilliputian 13 x 13cm to a colossal 33 x 28cm, five kinds of paper stock and three cover options, it offers a huge range of products. And unlike many photo book services, you can design books in a variety of ways, using professional design tools like Adobe InDesign or Lightroom or Blurb’s bespoke software, BookWright.
For those who fancy creating a photo book without the fuss, Blurb’s BookWright software has plenty of options. You can let it do all the work: just upload your photos, click the ‘Save Me Time’ button and it will automatically place your photos on the page. However, I did find when trying this feature out that BookWright defaulted to displaying a single full-size image per page, so you’ll likely only want to use this as a starting point.
Helpfully, there’s another option: dragging one of Blurb’s 188 different layouts onto each page, then choosing the order and placement of your photos yourself. These templates offer a great amount of variety, from large images with smaller photographs inset to blocks of free-flowing text accompanied by tiny thumbnails.
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Keen to blaze your own trail? Creating your own unique designs using Blurb is more flexible than pretty much any of the best photo book services. Simply select the photo frame tool, draw a frame, and then you can click and drag photos from your uploaded library.
