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9. Presenting your work > The Book module

The Book module

Lightroom 4 now features a Book module, which includes a direct connection to Blurb, a photo book vendor that has proven popular with a lot of photographers. I don’t know whether there will be plans in the future to extend this functionality to produce books through other book service vendors, although it is possible to produce a PDF output. This may offer a means to produce layouts that can be printed elsewhere, but only if the page formats are exactly the same. So, yes, the Book module is steering you toward using a specific vendor, but no more proprietary I suppose than the way iPhoto and Aperture are linked to Apple’s own book printing service.


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Whenever you work in the Book, Slideshow, Print, or Web modules, you are preparing photos for some kind of output. One can therefore class these modules as being “create” modules (that is to say, modules that are used to create some kind of output). It also implies that when you visit these particular modules you are effectively doing the same thing as creating a new document and that you might well want to save the work you do in them. As you work through this chapter it should become apparent why it is often desirable to save your work as a saved, module collection (or creation). You can do this when creating a slideshow, a print layout, or a Web gallery. Basically, it is a good thing to be prompted to save the work you have been doing a....


  

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