Thus I went with the quick and dirty…įirst, after signing up for Blurb if you have not already (FREE), then you will need to download their book layout software, BookWright, also FREE. Especially when trying to create a two-page spread photograph, like the one above, for my The Flow of Light Brushes the Shadow book-dummy. Btw, if you are an Acrobat Pro expert, this software might also work to create a book-dummy PDF, but my attempts to create a low resolution book-dummy with Acrobat were futile. I will also tell you that a Blurb PDF has major flaws, and you will need to use another software, such as Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to fix the resulting book-dummy PDF. Most know that I am not a fan of Blurb’s perfect bound books, but Blurb has an option that can provide a low-cost and easy to use alternative to create a low-resolution book-dummy PDF. For a publisher submission (or friend’s evaluation), I think that there is an easier alternative. One approach is to work with a designer, or if you have the band-width, learn the page layout InDesign software. Thus for a book submission it is necessary to convert a physical book-dummy into a virtual-friendly PDF. With the rapidly evolving virtual publishing world, rather than shipping out a physical book-dummy, publishers now prefer to see a book-dummy PDF. Then at some point, the book-dummy is ready to be evaluated by a publisher (or a gallery, agent or friends). Then is it a matter of living with this physical book-dummy while repeatedly tweaking the images, text, sequencing, layout and design. (Btw, my next virtual book development workshop with Medium Photo for this September is about to be announced! sneak peek.) Lots of paper, scissors, tape, post-its, and fun stuff along with all of the necessary photograph, but we are not worrying about the use of any software, especially something as daunting as InDesign in the workshop. The goal of the workshop is to get the first physical book-dummy started if not completed. We start with discussing the big edit of the body work in odor to distill this down to a reason size (for instance 100 – 200 images from a larger 4,000 images), then the fine edit to really get to the core of your project (example: 35 – 80 images), and then the messy stuff of sequencing, design and layout of the book project. ![]() The second article is linked up here.Īs many of you know, I lead a book development workshop that gets into the nitty-gritty of defining a book project. ![]() ![]() First, fair warning, to cover this subject it is going to take a couple of posts, so this is the first of two.
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