I finally got around to making and ordering my second Blurb Photo book. I have a lot of ideas for photobooks, but not enough time in the day to get them all done. Luckily, Blurb makes it relatively easy with BookSmart. They have really improved the software since the last time I made a book, including adding a photo spread, where you can have one massive photo have the span of two pages YAY

So my last book was about my mom’s adventures in the US, when she flew over to visit us. I shipped it all the way to Russia, straight from Blurb. This time the book was for me. I’ve been meaning to create a book of all the clones, photo manipulations and conceptual photos I’ve done, and use this book as a table book. Everyone loves seeing some of our trickier shots and this would serve as a perfect table book.

My next project will be The Book of Jumps ( self-explanatory), and then a book of 8 years of our life together, month by month, and then a pregnancy book, and then a baby book…. I can go on and on and on.

So this new book is titled Creative Self-Portraiture and it has 3 sections: 1. Clones, 2. Image Manipulation and 3. Creative Portraiture

I liked how the new Blurb software lets you create completely custom layouts, modify every layout, and of course the usual: themes, colors, etc.

So now I’d like to present to you my brand spanking newbook:

And if you’re all lucky, I might be able to do a Blurb book giveaway. Wouldn’t that be fun!?

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9 comments on “Photo books”

1. casey on June 27, 2011 at 8:26 PM said:

   OMG this is so cool cool cool!!! I LOVE it and how awesome to see all of your hard work in a book now!! your pictures are magnificent Elena!!! You will cherish that forever! I wanna win a book!!

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2. Ashley Sisk on June 27, 2011 at 8:49 PM said:

   That’s so awesome. I’ve never thought to put together an album of my self portraits…and I have been thinking about putting together my work, but I haven’t yet. Great idea!

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   • Elena @ Selfie Magic on June 27, 2011 at 9:39 PM said:

     Well, self-portraits comprise most of the stuff I shoot, at least the most creative stuff, so it made sense.

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3. Dawn Greensides on June 27, 2011 at 11:15 PM said:

   That is so cool! Looks amazing, like something you would buy at the bookstore! You should sell them

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4. Elena C. on June 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM said:

   Oh I looooved the blurb book I made for my mom!
   She was super-extatic too
   I’m sooo looking forward to your “8 years together” book!

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5. Shondra on June 28, 2011 at 12:57 PM said:

   Yes…a Blurb giveaway would be super awesome!

   I love the concepts of your books. I have so many pictures that I just wind up printing and sticking into normal albums, which is better than just letting them sit in my computer, but I would love to print a book.

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6. Gina on June 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM said:

   LOVE it. I think I would have so many ideas of what I would like to do- I don’t know where I would start! I need to also do the blog to book thing too. Both are so much easier than getting prints of all the photos.

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7. Tara on June 30, 2011 at 1:58 PM said:

   I love it!

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8. Michelle on June 30, 2011 at 11:41 PM said:

   That is an AWESOME idea for a table book! I’m so behind on making photo books :/ I’m too picky, I keep moving everything around on the page, lol

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