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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Blurb and B&W (enough)

2010-12-24 by Gary Brown

Can we end the discussion of Blurb & B&W.  For some of us Blurb will never be acceptable, for others it will always be acceptable.
The fact is, we will never agree. If Blurb is good for you, it is not necessary to defend it. If it's not............................................

Gary

baffin@...
www.garyallenbrownphoto.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Vinny 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 8:06 AM
  Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Blurb and B&W


    
  Blurb told me to use .png for my B&W. The book came out just fine.

  Vinny
  www.wulfsden.com

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "goldhorde" <dean@...> wrote:
  >
  > That doesn't make any sense - PNG format makes a difference more so in VECTOR art rather than in RASTER (bitmap/pixel) art when compared to JPEG. Something is going on at BLURBs processing end or with their workflow parameter preferences. Does BLURB accept TIF format with LZW compression?
  > 
  > -Dean Daniels
  > dean@... 
  > (GoldHorde) 
  > 
  > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Deanna Dikeman <ddikeman@> wrote:
  > >
  > > I found that I got a better b&w book from Blurb when I sent them PNG files rather than the JPGs I started with. They suggested the change when I contacted them because I was getting a color cast on my b&w images.
  > >
  >



  

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