{"id":56,"date":"2014-03-01T00:38:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T00:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2014-03-02T19:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T19:04:33","slug":"myfirstpicturebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/myfirstpicturebook\/","title":{"rendered":"My first picture book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/bookstore\/detail\/1394014\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets1.blurb.com\/images\/uploads\/catalog\/91\/961191\/1540454-247656542a3ba60006d4d7bff9fa81ab.jpg?resize=593.6%2C495\" height=\"495\" width=\"593.6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making a book is like making a t-shirt. It costs loads of money but it&#8217;s really easy to do.<\/p>\n<p>In January and April 2010 I was in Rome, Italy and collected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fsmvpggru\/sets\/72157623277408448\/\" target=\"_blank\">quite a few snaps<\/a>. I whittled the 3,000 or so down to 800 to less than 200 that I edited and popped up on flickr, after which, it seemed silly not to spend an afternoon choosing a final bunch and arranging them in a book.<\/p>\n<p>I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blurb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blurb<\/a> Book Smart software which was mega easy to suss out. I didn&#8217;t really use it in any far out way, so don&#8217;t know what the limitations are in terms of customisation when compared to doing the whole thing manually in Quark or whatever. This is not really a fair comparison though, as so many of the tricky bits (like bleed, spine alignment, etc) have been sorted out for you already in the Book Smart software.<\/p>\n<p>My main challenge was purely aesthetic. Although I have made a book before (as a birthday gift for someone), I still found it tricky to maintain a restrained look that gave room for the photographs to speak for themselves. This has also been true of my photo-taking where I have only recently managed to try composing shots that are not full of colour which then get pumped to the max in Photoshop. Aside from a few black and white shots there is only one or two of these modest, desaturated shots included in the book. It is something I shall endeavour to work on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fsmvpggru\/4308020616\/player\/acf8475ed6\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nP.S. <i>For anyone interested in making a book using Blurb; perhaps it&#8217;s blatantly obvious for everyone else but it took me a while to work out how to do a double page spread of a single image using the BookSmart software. The best work around I could come up with was to load up the same image on adjacent pages, zoom in to taste and move the left picture to only show it&#8217;s left half and the right picture to only show it&#8217;s right half. I found that the software doesn&#8217;t do a great job of illustrating how much of the image will be lost in the fold to binding and so a bit of bleed (perhaps a centre metre or two) proved helpful.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/myfirstpicturebook\/\" data-layout=\"button\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"http:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/myfirstpicturebook\/\" data-width=\"680\" data-numposts=\"5\" data-colorscheme=\"light\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making a book is like making a t-shirt. It costs loads of money but it&#8217;s really easy to do. In January and April 2010 I was in Rome, Italy and collected quite a few snaps. I whittled the 3,000 or&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/01\/myfirstpicturebook\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4nmio-U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dancoffeyvisuals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}