South Africa

[mbreshea]

I have already received my South Africa book. My husband and I were so pleased with the quality of the deluxe book, it looks like something we could of bought at a bookstore! I enjoyed looking through several books for ideas when I made my first book, just thought I would share.

http://www.mypublisher.com/bookstore/book_viewer.py?d=tq%3Ey-cppl%60je%3E3239196

[enbs]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful! I enjoyed it so much!

[mngoldz1]

Very nice. I enjoyed viewing your book

[machellrk]

Really awesome photography! Thanks for sharing!

[sharonmblais]

I really enjoyed looking at your book! Your photos are beautiful. Thanks for sharing it.

[dolphintbs]

Hi,
This is a beautiful book. I was born in South Africa and you really captured it. Thanks. Can you answer a question for me please - there is a picture you have in the book that is a panoramic over two pages - how did you do that? I have been trying to figure out how to add some of my panoramic photos and it's been one of the reasons that I haven't wanted to use this program.
Thank you,
Tracey

[mbreshea]

Thank you, we loved South Africa, it was such a beautiful country.

As far as the panoramas, I opened them up in Photoshop and cut the photo directly in half saving it as two different files. Then I made a sheet in photoshop slightly bigger than the dimensions of a Mypublisher page. I made the background of the page black, and then on the top layer I pasted one of the halves into the page. I made sure that the side that was in the binding was about 1/8" away from the edge, because by the time you place the two pages next to each other the binding will hide a bit of the picture. Then I repeated for the other file.

I made the page slightly larger than the Mypublisher page because that way I could shrink it a bit, and position it into focus. Otherwise when I brought it into Mypublisher as the exact size of a Mypublisher page it created the red frame around the page, which indicated it was out of focus.

Hope this makes sense. Honestly I played around with it a bit, but it wasn't difficult.