We all have loads of digital images, but how many of you have taken that extra step to take them back a generation and make a book? You probably know by now that you can make a fantastic photo book with Lulu. It’s simple, fun and you end up with a beautiful keepsake for yourself, your family and your friends. Whether you’ve got loads of wedding photos, shots from your vacation last summer, or designs for your professional portfolio — the options are endless.

What you might not know is that Lulu now offers photo books in extra large sizes. We have 12″ x 12″ square and 13″ x 11″ landscape books with premium paper and gorgeous matte covers. Of course we think they’re great, but seriously, they are GREAT. The larger sizes have a majestic feel and harken back to days when people actually had photos printed and took the time to paste them into albums. But you’re not pasting, you’re dragging and dropping. With these books, you can create a seriously professional project with minimal effort on your part. We have plenty of themes and fonts to choose from to give your book the personal touch you desire.

In fact, these large size books aren’t just in the Lulu Studio. If you want a bit more creative liberty, you can design your own book and upload the PDF into the Lulu Wizard, while still taking advantage of premium paper and the classy matte hardcover option.

With the holidays just around the corner,  this is actually the perfect time to start a photo book project and still have plenty of time to tweak your text and add that extra bit of finesse to your photos. The only real decision is whether you flex your creative muscles and upload your own custom created PDF or take advantage of specially designed themes in the Lulu Studio™.

We are continually creating new themes for the Studio which includes Photo Books, Cookbooks, Poetry Books and Calendars. We value your opinion and we’d like to know what you want.  I’m not talking about functionality – that’s a whole different discussion!  What I am talking about is backgrounds, colors, layouts—the basic look and feel of things.

So if you have some ideas, bring them on!  We have many new fonts and recently added 2 new themes but we want to do more and we’d like your help. Thanks for sharing.

p.s. new cookbook theme – it’s called Savory 

To see the fonts up close, click the small image to the left.

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Exciting news for the Lulu Studio! In our efforts to continue to make improvements,  yesterday we released eight new fonts for you to use in your photo books, cookbooks, calendars and poetry books.

To see the fonts up close, click the small image to the left.

Keep checking for more new fonts in the future and let us know what you think!

If you’re like me, you took a ton of photos over the holidays and probably don’t really know what to do with them. A great way to share photos with family and friends is by making a photo book. It doesn’t have to be big in size – the Compact books are very portable 5.25″ x 3.5″ and come in a set of 3.

If you’ve never made a photo book using the Lulu Studio tool before, or just have questions about how to make your projects even better, then join me for Design Chat this Wednesday at noon (EST).  We’ll go over how to use the Studio in general as well as “tricks” on how to customize your project with your own fonts and designs.

Send an email to: DesignChat@lulu.com and the first 10 people will be sent the URL and password to participate in the chat.

Caroline

Send an email to: DesignChat@lulu.com and the first 10 people will be sent the URL and password to participate in the chat. Looking forward to helping you making beautiful books!

On November 5th at 3:30pm EST we will be hosting Lulu Publishing Services 101 to discover how a little professional help on your book goes a long way. We will be discussing the reasons why or why not you might benefit from services such as editing, formatting and cover design.

Join us for a half hour right here and we’ll cover the most common pre-publishing topics. Mark your calendar—seating is limited and we’ll be accepting attendees 30 minutes before the call. No need to register in advance. If you cannot make it at this time we will post the seminar for replay in the near future.

Get a jump on publishing using this coupon and save 20% off when you purchase at least $350 worth of services.

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Please send an email if you’d like to join and I’ll send you the URL and password for the chat. DesignChat@lulu.com