Now if I wanted to create a photo book, the first thing I do is make a collection of all the photos I want in the book. And that's exactly what I've done down here, I've made a collection with 60 images called book demo. So we can take it off to the book module without having too many photos to manage. So I could also rearrange these photos if I was concerned about the order that they were going to appear in the book. But that's probably not necessary, because it's actually very easy to do when we get into the book module. So I'm just going to go ahead and hit book and you can see where instantly they're loaded up in the module.

Now, I'll give you a tip, I pre loaded this, it generally takes a bit of time to load certainly with, you know, 660 images or so probably takes, I don't know 1020 seconds just to spool up all the pages. So I pre loaded this in advance and that's why it loaded so quickly. Now once we get into the book module, the first thing we can do is collapse the left hand panel because we don't know It's got no use at all. So here we are, we can see it's pulled the first image and the last image for my front and back cover all the way around rather. So you can see the front cover is my first image right here. And you can see the back cover is my last image right there.

It automatically fits the images on the page and it leaves one blank and one photo on the facing page. I can very easily drag and drop images from one page to another and it simply exchanges them for the previous page just like that. So nice, easy interface. So let's have a look at this right hand panel. Let's first go into good old solo mode. Remember solo mode.

It's a wonderful way to work so I right click and I choose solo mode. And now I can only have one tab open at a time so much neater and easier way to work. So if we look at the very top first option is our books settings and we've got a few choices we can choose to export a single document PDF to take off to print out a book printers of our choice, we can export individual JPEGs per page for the same purpose. Or we can print with directly to blurb, so blurb or a book printing company that Adobe has partnered with. And once you set up an account with blurb, you can literally export your book directly from Lightroom to blurb, just by clicking this big button down here send book to blurb and it's a, it's a wonderful way to go ahead and print a photo book.

Other people have places they prefer to print, and Adobe's happy to support that as well with PDF or JPEG. But I'll just stick with the blurb book for this demo for now. So I've got a choice to the size of the book from a seven inch square up to a 12 inch squared arrange of other sizes in between, I might just go for the big 12 inch square right there. And I get a message saying it's going to have to re flow my layout. So I'll let it go ahead and do that. And it's done that and we're good I can choose my cover to be a hardcover image wrap or a dust jacket.

So whichever you like there, I can choose my paper type from a premium lustre, Priceline, uncoated pylon pillow and so forth. Let's go for the pylon pill. And it even gives me an estimated price right here in US dollars and I can change that to Australian dollars. And it tells me it's going to be $160 with the logo page on and if I turn the logo page off the blurb logo page, it goes up to 189. So I think that's it's about a 13 15% discount if you let blood put their logo on the back page of your book and it's a very unintrusive logo. You can see if I go down to this back page, that's it right there.

So you just get that little blurb logo on your book. And they give you a 15% discount for your travel. So that's entirely up to you if you choose to do that or not. Now moving right along So last, so auto layout here you can see by default, it's got left blank and right one photo. And we've got a choice of left blank, right one photo, left blank, right one photo with text or one photo per page. So I'm going to just change that to one photo per page, and nothing happens.

So in order to make this happen, I have to re flow the auto layout. No, I don't Sorry, I have to clear and reflow the auto layout. There you go. Now you'll notice the one photo per page template, unfortunately, doesn't fit the images on the page, it fills the page with the image. So this is a little bit annoying at first, but once we set up a preset, it's not a problem at all. We go into our preset menu just here.

And we choose Edit auto layout presets. And where it says zoom photos to fill, we changed that to fit. And now we save that as our own preset and I'm going to call it Let's call it one photo, per page, fill, sorry, fit, fit, not fill we want to fit. So that'll enable me to say the whole image nicely. So I've just created my one photo per page fit. And I'll need to clear that layout and flow it one more time.

Now my photos all fit very nicely on the page. So as I've shown you, we can move these images around, I might like to get some sort of synergy with all landscape images together all portrait images together. Maybe I want to alternate so it goes portrait landscape, portrait landscape and so forth. I think I can should be able to move an entire page right there. Let me just position that there. I think if I grab the page, no, hang on.

How do I do that? I think so. There we go. Click there. I can grab the whole page and position it there. That's right, or I can click there, Shift, click there, grab the whole page, move it in between there.

So just moving things around easy as you like what's happened there, I lost an image there. I can drag images from down here at the bottom as well. And that's gone to fit. And I'll just zoom that down like such. So moving the pages around for the layout that I want. Now I can zoom into images as well.

If I was to go double click on a page to go up to full screen, click on the image, and I can zoom up. If I want to fill with that particular image. You'll see if I go too far eventually. So this little exclamation mark that appears little exclamation mark appears in the top right hand corner, and it's telling me that I've exceeded the recommended resolution it says, this photo may not print so well at this size. It's going to print it hundred and 88 pixels per inch and they recommend 200 but it's still going to print it anyway. And they'll just Don't say we didn't warn you.

So it's something to be aware of when you're zooming into your images, you may exceed the resolution. So just go back to my grid view here. Now you'll notice down in the lower right hand corner, when I click on a page, this little icon appears here. And this enables me to choose different page templates, I can go for two photos per page, for example, and I've got this situation and I might want to grab Let's take another image that I might want to put side by side here. So just dragging from the filmstrip enables me to drag and drop images in and nicely, it gives me a little running count of how many times the image has been used. So that tells me this one's in the book twice, right now.

I can go again, I might, let's go for three photos per page. And I've got this little template here, like for example, this one with text. So I might want to drag another image in here and another image in here and you can see if I to just go up to full screen on this, so just click here to go onto that page. And I can add some text, which I'm not gonna try and type a paragraph of text and speak at the same time because we'll see how that's gonna work out. But I'm sure you get the idea right there how easily I can just go ahead and add a little story about each image if I so choose, and back to grid view there. Another nice feature is the double page spread.

If I was to go down here and say I want to go to page spread. Again, I've got templates for what I want this two page spread to look like. I'm just going to go from maximum size right there. And if I just go up to full here, you can see this image filling the hole are two pages for me, even gives me this nice little preview of the goddess shadow here. So I can see on the gutter rather where the image is going to fall in the middle so I can position that nicely also. So multiple images per page, two page spread.

Single image per page, lots and lots of control for how your images flow out on the page. If we go up to the cover, again, bottom right hand corner, we click and there's a whole bunch of cover templates that we can use. We'll just go ahead and choose this one here. And what this does, if I just go down to my filmstrip from I'm and I'm just going to select all the images, I'm going to select all the images in my filmstrip by shift clicking on the last one, and I can drag and drop them all into my cover template here. And you can see how that's kind of float out there. So I can rearrange the images.

And maybe I'll just grab another chunk of images just to fill the remaining spaces here. And we've got this lovely little mosaic here. And of course I can type a nice heading here my photo book and I can select the text and of course I can increase the size of it. Gonna do it there for me not taught sorry. It'll be under type, and size, and font and color, and all those obvious sort of things we can do right there as well. So I'll just go back to my grid view, hopefully you're getting the getting the vibe of the way this is kind of unfolding as I'm organizing my pages, multiple photos per page.

I've the photo books I've done in the past, I didn't get too carried away with the magazine style layout, I preferred to have more of a folio style book where I just had a single image per page. So the focus was more on my photography, but you are certainly more than welcome to get into the, the templates and certainly get a bit more of a magazine style book happening maybe to fond memories of a particular trip or whatever it may be. So hopefully, that's all making sense how easy it is to use this. This photo book module or the book module lessons. And send your book directly to blurb. So if I can drop a background image here as well, similar to the slideshow situation, if I drop that background image that becomes the background.

For each page, I can play with the opacity there, make it quite strong opaque or make it semi transparent. I probably wouldn't recommend going for a photo at the back like that. It's a little bit intense for my liking sort of distracts from the photos, but you never know depending on your particular project. You may find it entirely suitable to do exactly that. And you can but for now, I shall not do that. So we've got type as I mentioned, font and size and color.

The text for the photo text if we want text to appear on the photo, we can of course go ahead and select date equipment file name, just like we did in our slideshow example if we went in and did some Did a custom caption for example that could be pulled up right now. So that's the difference in text and type type is type that you literally type in the module, whereas text is text that gets pulled out of the metadata. And you know, you can decide whether the guides are visible or not, they're obviously they won't be visible in print. But you can turn those things on and off for your own reference, you can have page numbers, if you want just turning that on, you can say, bottom corner, by default, you can change that to top corner, have your page numbers wherever they want, I probably wouldn't go for the page layouts personally, the page number sorry, auto layout and book setting.

So there now we've gone full circle. So just like the other output modules, we can save the book. So if we create a saved book, that's often a good idea if we've done a lot of work mucking around in here, I create my save book, and I'll call this I'll call this test book. And it's going to be saved inside book demo. So my collection book demo is now going to have a save book within. So the difference between a collection and a save book is the collection.

The collection book demo is just all the photos, not all the settings that I've chosen in the book module, whereas book test book is now every single thing I've done in the book in terms of arranging the photos, changing the templates, adding text, all that extra book information. So I can be halfway through organizing my photo book and I can exit, go back and do something else. And then I can easily return. Just so let's just illustrate that by pressing grid. And let's just say we needed to go over to China for a moment and have a quick look over here and over there. We think I might just go back to my book.

Now. I double click on test book. And here we are right back in the book module exactly where we left off with our textbook. So the book module lovely little module. To arrange your images print some of the photo books either through blurb or through your book printing company of choice. If you are choosing blurb once everything's organized, it's simply a case of clicking send book to blurb, just click that and you'll be prompted to add your password your blood password that you created when you set up your account.

And off your book goes to blurb. So, endless possibilities here. Don't forget, down in the bottom right hand corner is where we find our little template here for our photos, let's figure out you know, multiple images per page, then we can just drag them up from down the bottom here down the bottom here, we can go ahead and create this little template here. Maybe we want to zoom that one up now just to fill of fit in with the template there. And if we go to full page, we've just gone ahead and created that nice little situation there. So all your pages can be different the initial initially with the template, the pages are all the same, but then as you work towards building up your book.

And then just dragging stuff around like that they'll swap around. As sorry as as you build your book up, you'll say, all the pages becoming different as you choose, then clicking send book to blurb off it goes, No need to make a decision about resolution or Calla spice or even shopping for that matter. Everything is just sent to blurb and printed as you send it. So I've had pretty good results with the books that I've printed. I've been pretty happy with the quality, pretty happy with the color matching. Just on color matching, you get a lot of pick.

No one ever says my book was too light. It was too bright. People always say Oh, it was too dark. My book was too dark. And I've spoken a number of times about why that is because their monitor was too bright. Yeah.

So if you don't want your prints to be too dark, make sure you monitor is not too bright. Turn your brightness down to around 50% if it's less than two years old, maybe 60% if it's more than two years old, preferably color Right you'll monitor, get yourself a calibration device like an eye one or a spider or something of that nature. That's the only way to be 100% sure, but certainly turning your brightness down closer to 50% will make a big difference if your prints are consistently coming out too dark. So that's the book module. I hope you found that useful. Um, lots of options there for how you can play around and just move things and change things and add text and tell stories and share your photos with friends, family or just enjoy them yourself.