I’ve always enjoyed making photobooks, but until now I’ve only used the Book Module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic. It’s great the way that Lightroom integrates the Book Module with Blurb, but it doesn’t have all of the functionality (especially in relation to text) that another tool has.

Bookwright is Blurb’s own book making tool. In many was it offers the same (and more) capabilities as the Lightroom Book Module, and it’s just about as easy to use, which makes it pretty simple to transition from one to the other.

I downloaded the software yesterday, and within a couple of hours I was able to create a simple ‘Zine’ and upload it to Blurb for production.

Only then did I start looking at tutorials (there area lot of them) on YouTube.

I came across a video of an online workshop given by Daniel Milnor to be particularly interesting. In it he takes you through the creation of a Trade Book. Much of this this I already knew, but there were a number of tips on using the Bookwright software than I had missed and found very useful.

I also found his suggestions on how to create a better photobook to be extremely useful.