Follow up on my first book. My proof came in but the photos were rendered too dark. I had noticed it when I exported the pdf, but I foolishly thought the KDP rendering would be better than the pdf. I know now that they print the book directly from the pdf. I went back in and tweaked the pdf export parameters toward higher quality settings and the pdf export came out nice, so I submitted it for a second proof.

The mention of KDP ISBNs not being applicable for bookstore sales was a great reminder to me. Im about to finally publish next week and your videos have been a valuable source of information for me. Keep em comin!

Thank you Jason. Your simplistic approach to explaining this is surprising among tutorials that try to cover all situations. The key to getting across to us is saying, "you're going to have to figure out those things yourself." I had to adapt somethings as I went along, my photos are not square but I figured out how to give them the dimensions to fit without changing the square frame. For those who encounter this, the photo size after I added it to the frame is 7.13 x 4.753. Make sure click on the picture move button so that the right panel is for the picture and not the frame. Make sure you double check your portrait oriented photos. At first they look like they fit but when you click on the move button you will see that they hang out at the top and bottom. Jason I will receive my proof tomorrow, I'll let you know how it comes out.

Well done! Thank you for putting all of this together. I want to give it a try, and I’m sure I will refer back to your presentation many times when I get started.

Thanks Jason, you video is a great help for me, not the template, we need A4 (Germany) but it is good to go through the whole process and I love the idea to create my own photo books, I certainly will do so.Anyway, for now we will produce a children's book about the beg bad wolf and the 3 little piglets, dolls, paintings and my photography.

Well done..concise and to the point, thanks !

Thanks so much for the breakdown!

really appreciate this these videos, I'm curious about publishing my own photo books. thank you!

You've answered a big question that I've had for months. I'm not a photographer, but I put a book out on amazon also, called "Pulled for purpose by Dj Tootskee". I put about 50 pictures in the book in color, and when my hardcover copy came back, they were in black and white. I didn't pay attention to the print options. The bad part about it is when I look at my book on amazon, it shows my pics in color, but not when you buy the book. I never knew what I did wrong until I saw your video. Thanks for sharing, I'll do better next time.

Dude, thank you so much. Will your program work on mac or are you using DOS?

Thanks a lot ❤

i want to make my first book. but i dont have enough photos thats book worthy yet. i am interested in the template. ill book mark this video. thanks for sharing.

Awesome info. thank you for helping me decide what I want to do in my future publishing options. looking forward to part 3. Quick question, what's the normal bleed (white border ) on these books? What's your template set at? Can I buy your template and convert the format to 11x8.5 easily?

Thank you for all of the detailed information! Lightroom Classic has a book module that outputs PDFs. Do you know of any issues going this route to create a book?

Hi Jason thanks for your videos!!! I have a question for you....is possible with Indesign spread an image over two pages?

Hi Jason, thank you for this, very informative and appreciated. Given that you prep images in LightRoom, why don’t you use the book module in LR to produce the book and resultant PDF?

How did u get ur book to have glossy pages? Even when selecting the premium colour option when I ordered my proof the paper was coloured yes but just standard like paper you’d find in normal books. Not glossy or silk like a photo book or like the shine u have in urs

I have one other question. As I am trying to use the GR III for streets, I am noticing that I mostly take photos at 35mm and some time at 50mm using the in camera crop. Hence, I am thinking of replacing the GR III with GR IIIx. My camera store will take it back and will exchange it for a IIIx. I understand that you do prefer GR III or IIIx. I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you.

Hi, Im interested in Publishing a photo book 📚 Can I use photos on my phone 📱 ? Thank you for your response.

Just watching your videos worth the 2$ ;)

Can you get a copy without proof copy watermark or do you have to pay full price.

This may be a silly question, but what if I want to keep my photos in the crop I have them, and do not want to make them square? Many of my photos are custom crops.

When I Cntrl-D and add a photo to page 4 the photo is automatically added to all left side pages.

Does your template work in Affinity Publisher?

Can you actually make an income from doing this?

Have to know I'm the one that got it and it would not work. It downloaded as two files and not a zip file and I can't get either to work. $2 gone.