Book Design and Book Production
gregathcompany
9:59 pm
Too often, we get into the “just the facts” mind set when deciding what we should put in and what we can leave out of a book.
- Candid and “hammy” photos should be considered – as well as formal posed photographs.
- Captions should not feel forced. Add information as you see fit.
- Places also make a family what they are (or were). Don’t focus solely on the people.
- Dates are a good thing to have – and use, but don’t discount something because of a lack of one.
- Captions and photos both can be provided by – and credited – to the author, or other contributors.
A good example of an informational caption: has facts, as well as details. All people in the photograph should mentioned – names and relations (or lack thereof) are also noted.
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http://www.gregathcompany.com/photo/tips/design/lifestyle.html
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Book Design
gregathcompany
3:07 pm
Service of any type can be shown in many ways. Captions are always important, but don’t necessarily discard a photo if you can’t ID everyone in the shot. The caption may be used to give more information as well.
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Book Design
gregathcompany
3:30 pm
School photos can be treated in a variety of ways. However, it is possible to show the group, as well as individual close ups – from the same photo. Captions can be informative, as well as add to the flavor of the book.
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Book Design
family, hybrid, photo, photograph, picture, quality gregathcompany
2:49 pm
Quality may be a factor in deciding whether to included a printed photo in a family book, but not always. Many authors are producing hybrid books so they don’t have to leave any photos out. This page contains some great ideas to be published by the Gregath Publishing Company to keep in mind.
Show your achievements, whatever they are – be they are military medals, trophies, etc. Captions are important as well.
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Book Design
photo, photograph, picture gregathcompany
5:56 pm
Photos and other special items:
Don’t overlook your photo layout when determining margins and what fits on a page. The photograph counts as the edge of the margin, just as headers, footers, text, and other graphics do. As we prepare digital manuscripts, it is easy to forget this as so many of our special items lay “over” or “under” the page that we have set margins for. Unless you are paying for a full bleed, laying items outside your set margin area can lead to books that have inadequate printing in the margins, broken spines as things run into the stitched binding, and unforeseen edge trims as the book block is trimmed to prepare for binding.
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Book Design
clipart, design, endpaper, format, frontice piece, guide, hardbound, hybrid, photography, rule, softbound, stock gregathcompany
8:44 pm
There is no “silver bullet” for proper publication design or format. However, there are some very basic rules to get you ready to go:
Some basic ideas to make your publication special (some ideas for Hardbound {HB} or Sofbound {SB} only)
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Use colored paper (to match cover) as section dividers.
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Use clipart or stock photography to liven up pages where you don’t have personal items.
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Do add other things besides text.
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Place information you might otherwise place on the endpapers (HB) or inside of cover (SB) as the frontice piece and the last printed page in the book for economy.
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Add a CD or DVD of extra material – even color photos for printed b/w in book.
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HB: Match your end papers to the cover (main) color.
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HB: Use custom printed end sheets (end papers).
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HB: If offered, use stock pre-printed end papers such as marbleized, etc.
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HB: Consider dust jackets versus color covers.
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SB: Print on the inside of the cover.
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Post Publication: Hand number (or stamp) each book.
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