4 Replies Latest reply: Mar 13, 2013 6:17 AM by brother jug RSS

    Book Module: exporting from Lightroom as a 2 page spread

    SF Ellen Community Member

      Hello Lightroom people,

       

      I have begun to create my albums in the lightroom book module, and I am about 85% happy with it. I have one major complaint, and I'm wondering if it can be corrected:

       

      My album company wants me to submit my album pages as two page jepg spreads. For example, if I am making a 10" x 10" book, rather then submitting pages 1 and 2 as two 10" x 10" jpegs, they require a single, 10" x 20" jpeg that is then printed as pages 1 and 2.

       

      When I export from lightroom, it exports instead as single pages (to use the example from about, two 10" x 10" jpegs for pages 1 and 2). I've noticed that if I design a 2 page spread--then it will export that the way I want it, but obviously no album can have all  2 page spreads.

       

      My work around for this is to import the jpegs in photoshop and lay the pages together the way my album company likes, but this is somewhat time consuming.

       

      Is there a setting in the book module I am missing that could correct this?

       

      Thanks,

       

      Ellen

        • 1. Re: Book Module: exporting from Lightroom as a 2 page spread
          Butch_M Community Member

          Unfortunately ... AFAIK ... the only way to be able to export two-page spreads is to use a two-page template ... just one of the many, many issues that prevent the Book module from being a true asset ... IMHO

          • 2. Re: Book Module: exporting from Lightroom as a 2 page spread
            JimHess Community Member

            The book module is designed specifically to work with Blurb.  All of the page templates are designed to match their bookmaking format.  At least this is the way I understand it.  I don't use Blurb, so I just export copies of my images and use the software provided by the book company to create my books.

            • 3. Re: Book Module: exporting from Lightroom as a 2 page spread
              Butch_M Community Member

              JimHess wrote:

               

              The book module is designed specifically to work with Blurb.

              Which was the biggest error in decision making Adobe made in going forward with the book module ... it should have never been tied to ANY single vendor ...

               

               

              JimHess wrote:

               

              I just export copies of my images and use the software provided by the book company to create my books.

               

              Yes, there is always a workaround, though Lr was supposed to simplify the process, not create more work ... though if we were discussing having to export images ... THEN ... send them to a printer instead of printing them directly in Lr ... there would be much more discussion about the problems the Book module poses for many users ...

               

              If I must export images and use outside software to finish the job (InDesign or otherwise) I may as well give up Lightroom as a "workflow solution" ... I could get the same job done working with Bridge/ACR/Ps workflow ... however ... I bought into the paradigm of Lr being the answer for RAW processing to output workflow ... though Adobe seems to pick and choose which features they really care about ... If Adobe is going to include a Book module, and expect me to financially support the effort ... they could at least offer a module that is functional without being tied to a single vendor ...

              • 4. Re: Book Module: exporting from Lightroom as a 2 page spread
                brother jug Community Member

                I have been trying to solve this issue for  while. If LR book module was only designed to work with Blurb, then why have the option to export to PDF or JPG.

                 

                My book publisher wants 20x10 spreads at 300ppi. But the lack of "spread" export is not my biggest issue. It's LR trimming off pixels on export

                 

                A 12 x12 book at 250ppi should yield jpgs with dimensions of 3000x3000. But instead, it's 2968 x 3000.

                 

                So????