Designing a Photobook in Adobe InDesign

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This tutorial is based off an entry on Scott Kelby’s blog about creating photo books with iPhoto, Lightroom & Photoshop. You can read his original post here:

http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/2458

The advantage with InDesign is the ability to export multiple JPGs from a single master document. The other programs require you to export one JPEG at a time. You can also use a single InDesign document to hold multiple page layouts for your book.

This is how I publish my Blurb & MPIX books.

Hey A.J. Great Job!!!

I don’t have indesign but great job AJ!

Please consider makeing the video full screen..

Thanks
Ken in KY

AJ may have been inspired by most tutorial, but his took it to a whole new level!!!! Way to go, AJ!!!! Nice work!!!

Happy Holidays,

-Scott

Wow – Digital Scrapbooking gets a thumbs up…

Well done.

Thank you AJ. I’m having a bit of difficulty with the export section — not really sure how Bridge is supposed to work

But thanks for the fine tutorial!

Keoni

The printers would prefer a High Res PDF over a JPG. Which indesign can output to using File > Export then select Press Quality PDF.

Would be nice if you added bleed also.

This was an incredibly fantastic tutorial. I have looked for and watched many online videos about InDesign, and yours is by far the best AJ! Thank you thank you THANK YOU!

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I’m glad this tutorial was a hit.

Look for my other Tips & Tricks to be posted soon.

Kainey – Thanks for the comment, and your assessment is correct.

However, in this lesson, the print vendors (MPIX & Blurb) require JPEG files for the uploaded content which is why that format was chosen for the tutorial.

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For Mpix, do I need to add bleed for my pages? Thanks for the help AJ.

The recommended bleed by MPIX is a quarter of an inch.

This was really useful! Thanks!

What a great tutorial. I am just starting with Indesign and it totaly rocks:-) I did some books in Photoshop but this way is so faster and more comfortable.
Thanks a milion Mr. Wood

This tutorial was so helpful. I’m really looking forward to more.

This tutorial is very useful! InDesign was not really my friend, but this tutorial made me feel like i can give it a shot again. I am going to try to create a small brochure.

I have a irrelavant question. I want to have a image as a button and when i click on it, a lager version of the image will appear in the middle of the screen. basically like a flash image gallery. the output of this will be in pdf. how can i do it?

nice site

This was exactly what i was looking for.. Thankyou

This is a wonderful application! Is it possible to comment on which of the features of this book design are unique to ID CS4 versus CS3? The basis of the question is whether it is essential up upgrade for this functionality.

one of the few great tutorials, thanks

Great tutorial!! thanks a lot for sharing it´s really helpful

awesome mate! thanks

Does CS4 fix the jpg jaggie problem that was seen in CS3?

Also what about colour management? CS3 exports without an ICC profile and uses the default working space profile. Dose CS4 tag profiles and can you select what profile to use without assigning it as your default workingspace?

AJ great work! I really enjoyed watching it.

Excellent tutorial.!! Learned a lot. Thanks A.J.

Thanks AJ

Great tut! I am more into using photoshop for my photo retouching work, but am seriously considering this for the design aspects.

This is GREAT, thank you. This is definitely second best to hiring a company like http://www.smilebooks.com to do it.

SO NICE THX

I’m pretty new to Indesign, and have a question. When I bring in a photo, into the photo box, and need to resize it, will it affect the quality of the photo? How can I resize a photo in indesign & keep the same quality? I’m having trouble finding answers to this question.

Thank you for the great tutorial.

Thanks everyone. I’m glad this tutorial is a favorite for folks.

Lila – When you resize an image inside InDesign you are adjusting the resolution of the file (how large or small the pixels are) without resampling the file (changing the total pixel count).

If you goto Window–>Info you can see how any changes to the frame size on the screen affect the resolution of the image.

When I am building a design comp, I actively resize within InDesign, but any final image sizing I do by editing the linked image in Photoshop.

Hope this info helps.

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These is crazy! enjoying it ! look for more lessons!

The export to JPEG approach isn’t advisable for serious (art) photo books because, unbelievably, InDesign won’t export JPEGs with an ICC profile. I noticed this bug in CS3 and I’m astonished to learn that it hasn’t been corrected in CS4.