Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Book Webinar (37 Minutes)
Learn how to: create your book; work with photos, text, and layouts; upload your book; and more.
Blurb BookSmart® Design Tips and Techniques Webinar (4:43)
For those who already know the basics of BookSmart, this intermediate webinar explores several design ideas you can use in your books.
Blurb BookSmart® Basics – How to Create Your Own Book
Let our resident experts walk you through BookSmart, and you’ll have your book made in no time! Get those holiday books made and ready for the big day.
Blurb BookSmart® Advanced Tips and Tricks
Up your game! If you've already made a Blurb book, we’ll guide you through creating your own templates, color management, promoting your book on Blurb and pushing the creative edge.
| Getting Great Color In Your Blurb Photo Books (39:16) | This free webinar shows you how to get books with accurate and consistent color reproduction, using hardware and software to calibrate and profile your computer's monitor. | |
| How to use authonomy with Blurb BookSmart (6:06) | Use BookSmart to slurp your content from Authonomy and publish your first novel, screenplay, short story collection or poetry works. | |
| Create B&W Text Books with Blurb (21:42) | Featuring off-white, 60-pound text paper, black and white image capabilities, and full color covers; B/W Text has everything you need to publish your first novel, screenplay, short story collection, or poetry works. | |
| BookSmart Design Tips and Techniques (26 Minutes) | This intermediate webinar explores several design ideas you can use in your books. Part inspiration, part instruction, you’ll get some great tips straight from Blurb’s designers. | |
| What's new in Blurb BookSmart (5:24) | Learn about the latest features in Blurb BookSmart® including text styles, justification, and locked pages. | |
| How to backup/export your book (2:37) | Follow these simple steps to export your BookSmart file and import it to another computer. | |
| Make a custom Flickr photo book (3:27) | This short video shows how easy it is to slurp your Flickr images into Blurb BookSmart. | |
| How to make a blog book (5:30) | Learn how to slurp your Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, or WordPress.com content into BookSmart. | |
| Start a GroupBook project on Facebook (3:24) | Learn how to get your Facebook friends to contribute to your latest GroupBook project. | |
| Start a GroupBook project on Blurb (4:27) | Learn how to start a GroupBook project directly from BookSmart and invite others to contribute. | |
| Ten BookSmart tricks to impress your friends and confound your enemies | Show off your bookmaking prowess – check out these ten tips for faster, easier bookmaking. | |
| Tip — adding text over photos | Creating high-impact chapter titles and section pages is a snap with these step-by-step instructions on adding a text overlay to your photos. | |
| Create a full-bleed spread across 2 pages | Follow these step-by-step instructions to use one photo across two facing pages. | |
| Archive, share, or transfer your book files | Create a copy of your book to archive or work on with another computer by following these simple instructions. | |
| Import your custom design into BookSmart | Use Photoshop, InDesign, and other applications to create your own page designs and then import into BookSmart. | |
| Edit and move multiple pages | Follow these easy instructions to select and move or delete multiple book pages at once. | |
| Keyboard shortcuts for BookSmart for both Mac and PC | Nothing says “Power User” like using keyboard shortcuts. We’ve mapped out all of the shortcuts in one spot. |