I inherited a box of old family negatives and have scanned most of them. I'd sorta like to make a book through Blurb (or such) with a number of the ones from my great-grandparents' honeymoon through Europe in 1912. I haven't edited the scans at all, yet. I have CS5, PSE11, Lightroom5 (and iPhoto, if that counts). I think there's a way to get a Blurb book ready right from Lightroom as well as something through iPhoto (though I don't know where iPhoto ones get printed and I doubt it's Blurb).
What's the "best" way to edit the images and create the book? If there is one. The 1912 folder has about 96 shots in it - some of which may not make the cut. I tried to get decent detail in the scans, but they probably could all stand some improving and not the same in each. The negs are (all?) 3 1/4 inches by 5 1/2 inches and a mix of vertical and horizontal.
I haven't used LR at all, yet, but I know I should learn how to use it sometime. Do I need to just bite the bullet and set aside a bunch of time to do each one by itself?
Any thoughts on whether Blurb's software or LR is easier and will allow me to keep the whole image without cropping?