Let’s make a book
A few weeks ago I learned about an exciting offer from mypublisher.com: they had a new line of books, which allowed for full-bleed 16″ x 12″ pages (see Deluxe Books at mypublisher.com - and don’t be fooled by the photo of the model holding the book: she’s either tiny or they took a bigger size book).
I thought I give it a try. I took 40 Pia-pictures - a few from every month of her first year. All photos got resized to 16″ width and 12″ height at 150dpi (per the recommmendation at the mypublisher.com site) and converted to black & white. I used the MyPublisher Bookmaker application (a free download at the site) to create the individual book pages. Once I was done, the pages were uploaded to the site, I selected finishing options and got a notification that my book was being prepared.
About a week later I found the book in our mailbox and was pleasantly surprised by the final result. If there was one thing I didn’t like then it would be the black-level of all photos: I have a calibrated system at home and took extra care during the converstion to black & white - still all photos seem to show a faint blueish tone in the blacks.
This was supposed to be a christmas present for Candice, but I’m really, really bad with secrets/surprises and when I saw the result I could not hide it from her. And to show you want we can see, I uploaded a PDF document to kahunaburger with the result (this is not exactly as it appears in the book). You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view the PDF document below. Here are the first five pages as thumbnails in the Acrobat Reader:
The final PDF document is here: and_then_there_were_three.pdf (PDF:3.5 MB)
Happy Holidays!
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