A new service from photo-printers Blurb will turn your Instagram pictures into a printed paper book. The service, which starts at $11 for a 20-page softcover book, is almost as easy to use as Instagram itself.
Blurb uses a Flash-based online editing app to layout the book, which isn't as bad as it sounds. To start, you click the link and then grant the app access to your Instagram account. Then wait a few moments for Blurb to load you photos. It will automatically populate the pages for you, and you could just click the order button and be done. But there is more fun to be had editing it yourself.
The editor is surprisingly powerful. The default view shows you one two-page spread at a time, and at the bottom of the screen you'll see a strip containing thumbnails of all your Instagram photos. If you're working on a big screen, you can click a drop-down to show “All Photos,” expanding this strip to a four-row box. Then click the “Arrange Photos” button below the page preview and you'll get a proper overview of all your double-page spreads.
Like the happy accidents in Instagram, Blurb's auto-layout is sometime serendipitous. Photos Charlie Sorrel
Now you can add pages and drag existing ones into the order you like. You can also change background colors, put more than one photo on a page, zoom images and add text and captions.
It's a lot of fun. So much fun, in fact, that I'm still tweaking mine until I get it just right. When I'm done, the 7 x 7-inch book will take 7-15 days to reach me.
I'm off to finish my layout. I'll report back on quality when I'm done.
Make Instagram books with Blurb [Blurb. Thanks, Grace!]
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