[Leica] My LUG Yearbook arrived.

[Bill at photobynelsch.com (Bill )]

Jim, 

Can you tell us how many books have been ordered so far?  I just got mine 
and it is prompting me to do a book of my own images.  I
notice that mine was printed (or at lease was mailed from) Seattle, WA.    
Thanks again!   

Bill in Denver

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+bill=photobynelsch.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Jim Shulman
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:35 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] My LUG Yearbook arrived.

To address this issue:
Try blurb.com yourselves!  The software is a FREE download, and works on 
both Mac and PC.  It is really, really simple.  Play with
it for about an hour, and you'll see how simple it is to assemble a 
professional-looking book.

I'd love to take credit for superior artistic skills, but really can't.  For 
about 95% of the book I used exactly TWO templates.
The left-hand page template allowed the use of the full page for images, and 
the right-hand page included a text box for up to two
lines of information.

I chose these two for simplicity's sake.  As LUGgers sent images, I "dumped"
them into the templates, and edited the descriptions.  Nothing was cropped 
without permission. Those LUGgers who sent only one image
had the right-hand page blank, except for text. Total time for each spread 
was about five minutes, including text editing time.  I
think I spent more time transferring images to the blurb.com images file 
than I did in placement <g>.

Since this was "place as you go", by the time the last images arrived the 
book was completed, ready for uploading.

My only "taste" was deciding which image would work best on the left-hand 
page, and which belonged on the right!

Best,
Jim Shulman
Bryn Mawr, PA


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
Lottermoser George
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 3:27 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] My LUG Yearbook arrived.

Absolutely true. I didn't say it clearly, but meant that "anyone"  
with something to say and the intelligence to say it, who also has access to 
computer can get it done, get in print, and make it
available.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com



On Jan 12, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote:

> Let's keep some perspective on this. Granted, Jim had a computer, but 
> I dare to claim that his talents that shine through in this (I have 
> only seen the previews so far, but they reveal something of a sharp
> intelligence) ... those talents are beyond the hands of just anyone 
> with access to a computer.
>
> Nonetheless, I see you point. Astonding. Scientific articles take 
> years to get published in journals. This is definitely astonding.



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