19 Apr 2011

Book

I spent a lot of time last week photographing my artist's dummy. I now have 14 different poses to match profiles that I have found. It's been great fun doing them and the people that have seen them seem to like them as well. You'll have to wait a little longer to see them because I'm not going to post them all here.....Not yet anyway.
I now know what style I would like my book to be, and have some photographs and text to use so I thought I'd have a go with some of the printing company's software packages. 
I came across an article in March 2010 issue of The British Journal of Photography ( On-line copy here). The author recommended using suppliers who used the ink-based HP Indigo presses rather than suppliers who used Xerox and Kodak presses which use toner based technology. He recommended Blurb, Bob Books and iPhoto.
I have downloaded a copy of Blurb's software package which is called Book Smart. I've found that it can easily cope with the layout that I want.
I like the flexibility that it gives me and, so far, it hasn't been difficult to make the changes that I want. It seems to be a very user friendly package.

3 comments:

  1. It looks awesome Mij, I can't wait to see the final product!!

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  2. My only reservation regarding Blurb is the fluctuation in quality of the finished product. I've seen some really professional looking books and badly printed books in equal measure from them.

    What you've designed so far looks pretty slick though.

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  3. I've only seen a couple of books done by Blurb. I thought the quality was okay - but not outstanding. I haven't seen a soft covered book by them yet. I'm downloading the software from Bob Books at the moment and I also want to check out a few others. Rachael has done a sample using ubyu and it looked pretty good.

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