Blurb Book IN LIGHTROOM

I have created a book in LR. At some point I must have deleted the cover. I would like to add it back to the book but can't find a way to do it. Can it be done?

I agree with that (though a 330 page Blurb book would break the bank :-)
I would also like to see the LR book module allow at least all the same Cover Templates as Booksmart does - I feel really constrained with both of them but much more so with LR...At least let us Drop a Full bleed finished cover on to the front and back covers!
Lately, I do all the page making in PS, move to LR to manage the page numbering and then export to jpg and ingest to Blurb to make my books...pretty kludgy, isn't it?

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I made a Blurb book through Lightroom 5, on another computer, backed it up on an external hard drive and tried to import it into my imac. I got the picture files, but could not get the book I had worked on. How do I find my book?

I made a 'Blurb' book using Lightroom on a computer that was not mine. I backed up the book on an external hard drive and then tried to import the book into my imac. I wasn't able to retrieve my book. The photos I used for the book project are there, but the 45 page book I made is not there.
What do I need to do?

You would need to go to the computer containing the book.
Select the saved book in the Collection panel.
Go to Grid View [ G ] and select all the images [Cmd/Ctrl][A]
File>Export as Catalog and store on media you can use to transfer
Bring this catalog onto your computer
File>Import from another catalog and bring the transitory catalog into your master catalog.
It should bring the images, your collections (including your book) and other settings into your own catalog.

Blurb Book in Lightroom 5 on my Mac disappeared after 3 days of work. Where can I find a backed up copy via Time Machine or anywhere else?

Blurb Book in Lightroom 5 on my Mac disappeared after 3 days of work. Where can I find a backed up copy via Time Machine or anywhere else?

Welcome to the WD Community.
1) I assume I can just hook the unit up via USB to my Mac and use iPartiion to reformat the drives, assuming each of the 4T drives will be seen by iPartition as a separate drive. That much seems straighforward.
Yes, and in case you ipartition dont see the unit properly, you can use the disk utilities on your Mac and you will be able to reformat the unit to make it compatible with your system.
2) Is my next step to reinstall the WD software and how do I do that? I've downloaded the Drive Utilities and Securities install apps - I assume I just run these with the drive still connected and that's all I need to do?
Yes, just run the applications.
3) What about the firmware update for Mac - when should I run that??
Normally, firmware updates are released to fix any issues that you might encounter on the drive. the latest one was released on 9/24/2014 and it fixed an issue with the drive dropping off of the list after system wakes up from standby mode.
5) And what about the "My Book Live Duo Setup" app for Mac - is that for a completely different model? What's the difference between "My Book Live Duo" and "My Book Duo"? It's these little things that I find so confusing.
Those are different units. The MBL Duo is a NAS (Network attached system) and the My Book Duo is a DAS (Direct attached system)
6) Lastly, when I have all the software installed, is that when I follow the procedure described in the Knowledge Base article ID 5724, "How to install a My Book Live or My Book Live Duo on Windows (8, 7, Vista, or XP) or Mac OSX for the first time"? Or is that procedure only for "My Book Live Duo" but not for "My Book Duo"??
That procedure is for the network units, not for your drive.

Unnecessary page limit for Blurb book in Lightroom Book module

I'm posting this per Julieanne Kost's request following an email exchange regarding this topic. I am in the process of making a photobook using Lightroom and discovered when I reached page 240 that I couldn't add any additional pages, much to my surprise. I was surprised because I knew from Blurb's website that the limit for standard paper is 440 pages and mistakenly assumed that this limit would also apply within Lightroom. I did more research online and found many others being surprised by this limitation after spending hours and days on a photo book. I will likely work around this by exporting from Lightroom to .jpg and uploading to Blurb, but that will take extra time and effort and reduces the appeal of using Lightroom to create a Blurb book. I had also tried exporting from Lightroom to .pdf only to find that the .pdf format exported by Lightroom is not compatible with the requirements of Blurb.
My recommendation in the short term would be for Adobe to warn Lightroom Book Module users up front that Lightroom's page limits differ from those if going directly through the Blurb website.
My recommendation in the longer term would be for the Adobe engineers to make whatever changes are necessary in the Lightroom code to allow for 440 pages when standard paper is selected (and more specifically to make the page limits match the limits of Blurb's actual books). If there is any way to impress upon Adobe management the importance of this, I believe it would be greatly appreciated by many Lightroom/Blurb users.

I agree with that (though a 330 page Blurb book would break the bank :-)
I would also like to see the LR book module allow at least all the same Cover Templates as Booksmart does - I feel really constrained with both of them but much more so with LR...At least let us Drop a Full bleed finished cover on to the front and back covers!
Lately, I do all the page making in PS, move to LR to manage the page numbering and then export to jpg and ingest to Blurb to make my books...pretty kludgy, isn't it?

Do you know how to create a "planner" blurb book from Lightroom?

Hello - Sorry struggling with this one.
I want to create a Blurb "Notebook and Diary" from Lightroom 5, however I think the only option in Lightroom 5 is to create a "Photobook" !
Is this correct as it seems a bit daft. As a work around I'm exporting pictures to iPhoto and connecting the Blurb BookSmart app to iPhoto library (this seems all wrong). I thought there should be a way to create a Blurb planner book directly from Lightroom.
Harumph ..... am I being stupid and missing something ?
Cheers
Paul

GadgetNeil wrote:
I get the feeling the book module in Lightroom only allows Blurb photobooks, not other items Blurb offers, like magazines, notebooks, and diaries. Anyone else know anything about this?
Neil
Yes, just photobooks. However, Blurb used to a offer a BookSmart plugin for Lightroom, and there may have been one for Bookify. I couldn't find the info on their site, but ask Blurb what plug-ins they still have.

Can I get a Lightroom 5 Blurb book saved as a PDF on my desktop reloaded into LR to make edits

I made a Blurb book with Lightroom 5 saved it (I thought) in Lightroom and as a PDF on my desktop. When I got a print copy back from blurb I want to make edits. When I went to find the book in LR5 there was no sign of it. How can I upload the PDF version on my desktop back into LR5

I don't think that would be possible. Once you exported the book as a PDF file, that file had all the edits, selections, layout, etc. "baked in" to the PDF, so you can't then reverse-engineer the file so it can be re-opened in the Book module. Also, as far as I know LR doesn't support PDF in the various modules - it can only be used for certain exports that are intended to be used elsewhere.
Do you have previous catalogue backups? Perhaps the book is contained within one?
M

I have created two related books in Lightroom 5 (Volumes 1 and 2) but my balance of page numbers is off. So I'd like to take some pages out of one book (complete with images) and paste them into the other. Is this possible?

I have created two related Blurb books in Lightroom 5 (Volumes 1 and 2) but my balance of page numbers is off. So I'd like to take some pages out of one book (complete with images) and paste them into the other. Is this possible?

Can you zip up a few of your GoPro images, upload them to dropbox.com and post a share link, here, so others can experiment with them, or do you mean this issue is global to all camera models?

Blurb book, exact dimensions 30 x 30 cm?

Dear experts,
I want to create and publish a Blurb book with Lightroom 4.3. I decided to use the 30x30 cm format. I created every page by my own design. Every page is one JPG-file (300 dpi), with pictures and texts. Which must be the exact dimensions of my JPG-files, so that I can put it 1:1 on a free, empty page in Blurb plugin in Lightroom? Thank you for every information!
Kind rgeards, Korjakski

I disagree that this is a Blurb limitation. As long as you work within blurbs specifiation they would not mind if I rotate an image, add a border or make sure that the frame dimensions actually meet my image dimensions as 3:2 or 4:3.
Of course I use other print-on-demand companies, but then the Book module is useless.
The best I can do is to set up a publishing service to my hard drive to issue the jpgs which I can enter into their proprietary book creation softwares. If I decide I need another development tweak, it is republishing. No means to get metadata like titles and captions across from my catalog.
The book module could have been specified in a very smart way, linking with the print module for template creation and refreshing this module at the same time, but it wasn't. Adobe's choice.
One that will be rectified, I hope, in LR5.
Cornelia

Export of the book from Lightroom to blurb, issue with Backgrounds ' opacitty = overexposed

Hello,
I have Mac book Pro last generation.
While preparing the book with Lightroom, I used new proposed tool that I found very useful , to place photos as background with different type of opacity. After upload to Blurb some of these backgrounds have disappeared at all and some have very bright color (overexposed) , so I am afraid to launch the print . After export into Pdf, everything works correctly.
Please find enclosed two obvious examples, two print screens of pfd file and 2 prinscreent from the ecvivalent of the book Hylem & Mourad wedding at elyseephoto blurb page page 28, 42, 43(i add print screen also).
Please help me to solve the issue, maybe there are some installation to correct for the graphic backgrounds? Are there minimum opacity level?
Thank you in advance for your quick answer.
Kind regards,
Anna Akoun

In the top right hand corner of the Book Module under <Book > change from <PDF> to Blurb.
With Blurb selected you will get lo-res warnings when the resolution is too low. Later on you can change back to <PDF>.
See screen shot:
You would not get a lo-res warning if you used original images from your camera. But if you either use small JPGs, or you crop an image severely and then use it for a full page image, the image will be too small to be used.

When using Lightroom Book module for Blurb book making, why do I keep getting a low image quality message if it's supposedly accessing my large raw files in my library?

When using Lightroom Book module for Blurb book making, why do I keep getting a low image quality message if it's supposedly accessing my large raw files in my library?

I think I've solved my problem with a Google Search. I came across a free slide show generator
(contributions requested) that shows much higher quality slide shows than either iPhoto or Aperture 3.
You click on a folder of jpegs and it almost immediately generates thumbnails and within a few seconds
I can be viewing a full screen, tack sharp, slideshow of all of the files in the folder. Much sharper than
I'm used to seeing.
I think I'll keep the Aperture 3 and use if for the purpose it's intended for in the future. I'll also redo the
image preview files to the small size it started with and then I'll copy all of the files I'm interested in from
iPhoto into a separate folder on another disk. I'll use Aperture to catalog and to perform image manipulations
on but I won't try to use it as an iPhoto replacement. I don't think I'll be using iPhoto much as an image
viewer in the future either after I finish moving my favorite pictures to the Phoenix Slides folder.
The name of the free program is Phoenix Slides. It's free to download and try, free to keep (though I
think you'd want to pay the small amount requested) and fast. My pictures have never looked so good
before.
http://blyt.net/phxslides/
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Uploading blog to lightroom blurb book

Hi All,
I have a partial blurb book in my lightroom that I would like to add several blog posts to. Is this possible and how? I know you can do this with the blurb software but I seem to be having problems making it work with the lightroom version.
Thanks!
-Laura

Have you selected one of the templates for Cover?
When you select a Cover Template the spine is pre-formatted for top-to-bottom text.

Spine of lightroom blurb book

I am trying to make my first blurb book in LR 4.3. The type on the spine is going left to right instead of top to bottom. How can I change that?

Have you selected one of the templates for Cover?
When you select a Cover Template the spine is pre-formatted for top-to-bottom text.

Book Module Lightroom 4 -- can I use a color picker to pick a color from a photo to use as the backg

I am trying to match a background color for a page in a Blurb book using the Lightroom 4 Book Module. Is there any way I can use the color picker to pick a color from the photo to use as the color for the background and as the type color? I see the color box for these situations, but the color picker only seems to work with the color array that pops up and doesn't go to the photo. Any suggestions? Am I overlooking something very obvious?

It works for me.
The usual Lightroom way: click the eyedropper onto the color palette first, then hold and drag to your photo to sample color.

Working on making a book using lightroom 5

Working on making a book using lightroom 5 and printing with blurb.com. My question is pertaining to the cover of book. I have two images full bleed and text on the spine. I can see that I can add an image to spine also so its not just a plain color. But does anyone know how to be able to zoom or move image on spine. I basically want the back or front image to bleed right over spine. But there is no option I have seen to do this. Its pretty basic book layout stuff. Why does it seem that lightroom does not do it.

You cannot put an image on the spine. The spine has a text box only, and you cannot put images into a text box.
The only way to have (part of) an image showing on the spine is when you select the two-page spread for the cover. Then the image extends from left to right and goes over the spine.
For page-layout - and that includes the cover - you have to select one of the templates. There is no template with an image on the spine - except the full bleed.
Apart from that, I think it's wise not to put an image on the spine. The text - that is necessarily small - can be hard to read if it is on top of an image.

Duplicating books in Lightroom 5

I would like to make a second version of an 80 page Blurb book I built in Lightroom 5. Can I make a duplicate of the existing book (like a vritual copy, etc) so that I don't have to build the second version from scratch? The first version is an enhanced ebook with video and a lot of double truck images, and the second will be for PDFs, omitting the video pages and 2 page spreads.
Thanks,
Peter

Right click the book and choose duplicate

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