Making the book in Blurb (3/9/18 + 6/9/18)
After realising Tesco books wouldn’t be the best idea, I went to Blurb to start arranging my book using Bookify which is online so I didn’t have to download it and it meant I could work on it at home and at uni simultaneously.
For a Blurb photobook, the minimum pages is 20 which is what mine started as, and I added 2 pages for end part showing screen shots from my animations.
I chose a Standard Landscape which is 25cm × 20 cm, so a pretty decent size, I’ve ordered the large square from Blurb before which is 30cm x 30cm, which I found too be too big, so standard will be easier to store too.
I changed font on my front and back cover to be similar to typed font in book, so it works throughout.
I also realised I have to do all the text in on photoshop as you can’t have layers in Bookify, just images/layouts, so I made all the boxes to go behind the words too which have soft edges.
Bookify has the option of frames around the images, which can be any colour, I decided to choose simple black frames.
As my photos/layouts are massive in Photoshop, they are mostly zoomed on 0.18 - 0.20, showing that there is a lot of detail in the images and the great thing about Blurb is that it’ll say if the image is bad quality and this didn’t happen to mine. The font itself is 120-110 size, font TW Cen MT.
In a few hours I managed to layout the majority of the book and needed to just finish 6 pages with extra details.
(The image above shows some of the process)
I went into uni, and took photos of miniature cars and my dad puppet for background details for my book. (I also attempted to do a small animation for an ident for the MA Animation showreel and animated the pupils in After Effects.)
I edited my images (green screen removed, removed background, removed letters/brand/made silhouette, added motion blur using After Effects and Photoshop). Then my dad came to collect me and we cleared out my animation room so it’s tidy now.
In the evening, after sorting out all my stop motion props/puppets/sets, I continued to work on the book in Photoshop and asked my mum to check my wording/effects so it made more sense and looked “right”.
FINISHED BOOK LINK: http://rosemarienelson.wixsite.com/home/photobook