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I heart Magcloud. This is a very slick platform that is worth your time and energy. I prefer the “standard,” or magazine format, and I also love “Digest,” which is what you are seeing here. Inexpensive, great printing and very strategic for anyone in business as a photographer.
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    Hi Dan
    How does the Magcloud magazine compare with the Blurb magazine? Be good to know which option you would suggest and what the differences are between the two. Appreciate that Magcloud offers more size variations on magazine, but other than that?
    Cheers, Mick

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      Mick,
      Blurb offers both an economy and premium magazine. The Blurb Premium is very similar to the Magcloud in terms of materials. The Magcloud is a SLIGHTLY different size. Magcloud also offers backend sales tools that are also slightly different, and in some ways more advantageous, than what Blurb offers.

    2. Perfect, cheer Dan. Will take a look at those sales tools and figure out if they are worth the investment of learning another platform. Once I get conversant with InDesign, won’t be such an issue.
      Thanks again sir,

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      Mick,
      They offer many other options besides InDesign. No need to buy or learn a new software.

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      Mick,
      But if you ARE going to publish anything on a regular basis learning ID is worth the effort. I don’t know a single designer who doesn’t work in this program.

    5. Yeah, coming to realise that to produce regularly and to improve what I am doing, ID is something I am going to have to get to grips with.
      Have 2 x multi issue ideas in mind so think in the long-term its going to be worth the initial investment of time.

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      Mick,
      It’s worth it. Then one program does everything. Blurb plugin and MC plugin.

    7. That makes sense as does being able to send files to a designer to take my workings and improve on them and send them back and forth before uploading a finaihed file. Perfect 🙂

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    Daniel, looking at the examples shown above, do you miss film-only, or do you miss the time to produce such work?

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      Mike,
      It’s all one and the same. The digital works great for dailies, but for projects I prefer film. But to use film takes time, something I don’t have as much of at this point. Can’t have one without the other really, but it’s a minor inconvenience. I actually prefer working on other people’s stuff than my own.

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    Going back through some of your tutorials and platform specific posts. I used the digest for one of my first attempts at printing – Brexit and Extinction Rebellion in October 2019. I mailed you a copy, but I think you were in the middle of about 2 or 3 moves, so you might not have gotten it. No, that’s not a passive aggressive “why didn’t you tell me how awesome I am!”. I know you have a post about using the digest as a sort of business card, trying to track that one down.

    1. PS – that comment isn’t in need of a reply. I like commenting out of some possibly misguided belief that genuine comments help improve robotic algorithms, thereby possibly helping someone else find these valuable posts.

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      Scott,
      My SEO effort is puny. Always has been. I just like doing this. Ten readers or ten thousand.

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