This means you have to use Adobe In Design to create your magazine, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, and they make it as easy as possible by providing a template for you with all the relevant markings to make sure you keep your artwork on the page. In the past I have used Blurbs intuitive and free Booksmart software to make my books, they include all the templates for their book publishing options within the software and it will run on most any modern PC or Mac, unfortunately they don’t have the option for the magazine output within their own software. So I’m writing this review in the way that I would have liked to have read it before ordering, if you’re not interested in the ins and outs and just want to see some surfing photo’s and some tips on how to make them work in print then you can skip to the last part of this review, if you’re here looking for information on the service, dig in. I looked around for a little while to see what options there were to get a magazine printed, and there really isn’t much choice for a one off, Blurb seems to be the only major one off print on demand service that offers the magazine format.Ī spread from my first Blurb magazine, I ♥ SD.Īs it’s the only choice in this area I was surprised that I couldn’t find any detailed reviews of the end result, if you search for Blurb books you’ll find quite a lot of results with mixed messages about the quality and service, I’ve personally found the books to be fine for my (non professional) uses and consistent in quality, although I’m in Europe and as far as I know they only have the one printing facility in the Netherlands as opposed to the USA which has several different printing lab’s resulting occasionally in a different quality result from the same original file. So what could be better than a magazine of my own? filled with all the images I don’t want to show everyone, but that I don’t have space to frame and stick up all over my house. Printing your photo’s is a fun way to get more out of them without exposing them to the world on line, to many photographers the print is the end result they shoot for, framed and hung on the wall to enjoy.īut for me, even though I don’t really submit photo’s to magazines, this is the format I most often think about when shooting and reviewing my photo’s, it’s how I’ve grown up seeing surf images presented I guess, just like a youngster might imagine shooting in a square aspect ratio à la Instagram. I also don’t like sharing a lot of my photo’s on line as they’re sometimes from sensitive locations that I’d prefer to keep under wraps. Some of the magazines and books I’ve picked up recently, clockwise from top left: Switchfoot II, Acid, White Horses, Wavelength, Incredible Waves and Le Boogie UPDATE – Blurb have released some new software which makes it much easier, and cheaper, to make this style of magazine, read about it here: Now that another mag’ folds every month or so and the internet can provide all the content you could ever consume it seems like there’s less interest in printed magazines than ever before. I really like magazines, I’m over 30 so I can actually remember when there was no internet and a magazine or video was the only source available for surfing imagery.
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