I made a photozine!

And it is affordable one. I have to figure out how to order it, blurb doesn't have guest checkout.
 
Ko.Fe. said:
And it is affordable one. I have to figure out how to order it, blurb doesn't have guest checkout.
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You should be able to order it from the link, but if you aren't able to, let me know and I can order one for you and mail it to you.
 
Hi,

The last time I checked (admittedly years ago) Blurb did not offer true monochrome printing. What printing method did they use?

Please share the specifics of the image rendering techniques you used to prepare your B&W image for Blurb.

How did you achieve the tonality?
Did shadow regions block up?
How did you avoid any color tint or hue in your zine's images?

Thanks
 
willie_901 said:
Hi,

The last time I checked (admittedly years ago) Blurb did not offer true monochrome printing. What printing method did they use?

Please share the specifics of the image rendering techniques you used to prepare your B&W image for Blurb.

How did you achieve the tonality?
Did shadow regions block up?
How did you avoid any color tint or hue in your zine's images?

Thanks
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I'm not sure what they to print, but I'm really quite happy with the results. The printed images pretty much match my edited jpegs exactly.
I use an AdobeRGB calibrated system. After scanning, I convert the files to AdobeRGB, then convert to B&W, then Levels and Curves, finally I add a very slight warm tone by adjusting the midpoint of the Blue channel to 0.96, and the midpoint of the Green channel to 0.99.
The slight warm tone should insure that the images print with no green or magenta cast.
I then resized the images, and uploaded to blurb still with the AdobeRGB profile.
 
I'm in!

This is a great-looking book and I really like your photography, Colton.

(For some reason, I couldn't access certain websites over the weekend, this one included, so I just got in now and made my order.)

- Murray
 
Swift1 said:
I'm not sure what they to print, but I'm really quite happy with the results. The printed images pretty much match my edited jpegs exactly.
I use an AdobeRGB calibrated system. After scanning, I convert the files to AdobeRGB, then convert to B&W, then Levels and Curves, finally I add a very slight warm tone by adjusting the midpoint of the Blue channel to 0.96, and the midpoint of the Green channel to 0.99.
The slight warm tone should insure that the images print with no green or magenta cast.
I then resized the images, and uploaded to blurb still with the AdobeRGB profile.
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Thank you for this informative answer!

I sent Blurb customer support an email and it turns out they still do not offer true monochrome printing.

I think your technique of rendering wth a faint warm tone is a brilliant solution. If there could be an unavoidable tint, make it an aesthetically pleasing tint.
 
CMur12 said:
I'm in!

This is a great-looking book and I really like your photography, Colton.

(For some reason, I couldn't access certain websites over the weekend, this one included, so I just got in now and made my order.)

- Murray
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Hi Murray, thanks so much :)
 
willie_901 said:
I think your technique of rendering wth a faint warm tone is a brilliant solution. If there could be an unavoidable tint, make it an aesthetically pleasing tint.
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Little trick that I learned from the professional printer who I usually get to print for me :D
 
It's a good work from what I can see on my monitor. Just ordered a copy: really curious to see how the photos in the real zine are.

robert
 
Swift1 said:
I'm not sure what they to print, but I'm really quite happy with the results. The printed images pretty much match my edited jpegs exactly.
I use an AdobeRGB calibrated system. After scanning, I convert the files to AdobeRGB, then convert to B&W, then Levels and Curves, finally I add a very slight warm tone by adjusting the midpoint of the Blue channel to 0.96, and the midpoint of the Green channel to 0.99.
The slight warm tone should insure that the images print with no green or magenta cast.
I then resized the images, and uploaded to blurb still with the AdobeRGB profile.
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A lot of this depends on how you are preparing the book. Blurb and MagCloud both want CMYK black and white images for books and zines developed with their InDesign plug-ins. If using Blurb's book builder software, I think they want sRGB. They offer detailed instructions for both approaches.

John
 
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