On 4/26/2014 4:56 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
I like the images
Thanks!
but didn't care for some pages where adjacent images push up against each other. I think each image needs some sort
of "frame" to isolate it from another. I assume you can control that in some way.
The preview isn't representative of the physical book. With the binding I've ordered, each page lays flat, with a thin,
black space between them. It's visually quite different from conventional binding, and from the preview's attempt to
duplicate that look. I've thought about spreading a panorama across two pages. It would be impressively larger, and far
less compromised than with conventional binding. Maybe next time. :-)
The order of images is pretty arbitrary. They span several years and cameras, so the only 'logical' order would be by
subject. But I think a bunch of rock pics, followed by sunsets, follo ... would be at least boring, possibly annoying.
I just 'organized' them as groups followed by sunsets, like days, and otherwise as pairs/small sets that felt like they
fit together. Except for a very few 'individuals', that just have to live with each other.
I have little liking for added 'matting', although I could do that easily enough. I prepare each image at the printed
page pixel size, and avoid their software placement, sizing, matting, etc. That's also easy, I can make each one the
crop I want, and in batch downsizing/print sharpening in FastStone, the rest of the page is filled with black. I'm not
stuck with any particular proportions.
In any case, one advantage of this kind of book making is that I make one, and can see if there are changes needed for
the next 'printing', where I get more than one more. So I would be interested in knowing which ones 'push up against
each other'. Where I realize you've seen something I didn't see, eyes bleary and mind weary with finishing up
processing, downsizing and organizing 80 images, I can make adjustments.
But very nice work in any case. How could it be otherwise?
Awwwww ... Thanks again!
Bookish Moose
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