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That photo looks intriguing though
I'm sure you'll get somethting together, talking of which, I haven't even started and I see Ian @Harlequin565 has got prints on the wayI wish the rest of them did.
The editing is proving more difficult than I'd imagined it would be, I fear because the pictures are crap!
Plenty of time yet.I'm sure you'll get somethting together, talking of which, I haven't even started and I see Ian @Harlequin565 has got prints on the way
What paper type did you go for? and which was, to coin a phrase, crap
Yeah, that's usually where things start going off the rails for me, as Douglas Adams saidPlenty of time yet.
I love deadlines, I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by
Heh, there's two threads going at the moment. One is a "make a zine" thread, the other is this project thread. I'm posting my findings/pitfalls and experiences on the other one. But to save a click, I used "Natural" paper for my test zine which had a lovely texture (exactly what I wanted) but it soaks up the ink so much that the blacks end up dark grey. It gave the whole project a washed out feel - especially considering it was a monochrome project! This time I used Silk and the blacks were much punchier.
I may drop a note to MIxam asking them if it was something I did, but whilst colour could be open to interpretation and require profiling etc, when you use black text and it comes out grey, it's not a great experience.
Going to have a play with Mixam this afternoon and see how it all fits together.
Good luck!
My experience was that making the PDF/PDFs to upload is the trickiest part at first.
Magazine, brochure or booklet are different names for the same thing in different sizes.So I just looked at Mixam and realised that I have not got a clue about this. Do I want a magazine or a booklet? Do I want a cover - why wouldn't I? Do I want a finish on the cover? I downloaded their template which seems reasonable but like @flook999 I've got to work out how to create a PDF (I assume that's what they want) in LR/PS
I haven't looked into the specifics of creating the PDF pages, but assume thats straightforward............
Thanks Dave, I'll have a look at some DTP software
Have you tried Scribus? I've only had half an hour with it and it seems to work (for my exceptionally limited needs at least) and claims to output print ready PDFs, although, again I have no idea how one checks that a PDF is print ready...If you find something simple to use and free/cheap, please let us all know!
Scribus is what I use at the moment for more than a few pages. The problem I've yet to solve (admittedly through not trying very hard) is getting elements to snap into place. The PDFs have all worked fine so far for printing.Have you tried Scribus? I've only had half an hour with it and it seems to work (for my exceptionally limited needs at least) and claims to output print ready PDFs, although, again I have no idea how one checks that a PDF is print ready...
I've selected the 16 images plus a reduced size one to include on the frontcover, and added 2 text blocks to the inside of the front cover (although I'm not sure at this point whether I can specify printing on that page, or what I'm including in the text boxes)
If you're using Mixam, I've found the following tips to be useful.
Page Naming: Page 1 is the front cover (call it "front cover.pdf"). Page 2 is inside the front cover (the reverse of the cover - call it "inner front cover.pdf"). Page 3 is the 1st facing page you see when you open the book. Pages 4 & 5 are the next two pages once you've turned page 3. Everything from page 3 on should be "page xx.pdf" (where xx is the actual page number). The last page is the back cover. Call that "back cover.pdf". If you keep this naming convention, they all fall into place when you upload.
Multiples of 4: Make sure your total page count is in multiples of 4. I made up a blank page for this purpose. It's handy for the inner front cover (because there's rarely anything on it) and the page before the back cover and for stuffing if you need it.
It doesn't have to be.So it's not just one PDF with all the pages in it?
Correct.Presumably I can print on all pages?
What I mean is, I can print a title/image on the front cover
intro text (or rude limerick) on the inner front cover
next 16 pages are image pages
text again or maybe blank if I've run out of things to say on the inner back cover (or what about a photographer bio with small image?)
and finally maybe date/title as text on the back cover
So it's not just one PDF with all the pages in it?
I did indeed do mine as a single PDF. Which Mixam mixed up and printed in the wrong order! They have corrected their error FOC.I think Dave did it as 1 pdf and I did it as 28 pdfs so you can presumably do both.
OK, plan A is looking like a non-starter, over to plan Aii (B, C, ? in the wings ;-) )
this really is an education and a whole new world
After mastering zine publishing it's on to making video. :banghead:
Well that's annoying! Mixam offer a trial of two copies but it only allows portrait and I've got mine all laid out in landscape ...
Woo hoo. Just found the on-line flip-through link for my Mixam book. And it can be embedded on a website.
https://mixam.co.uk/share/5e2754f62b5b295860d2b5e6
Woo hoo. Just found the on-line flip-through link for my Mixam book. And it can be embedded on a website.
https://mixam.co.uk/share/5e2754f62b5b295860d2b5e6
That sounds like my kind of project.I did a series once of photographs of the detritus left after new years eve. I got some funny looks for that one, but congratulations sir, I'd never have come up with this
That sounds like my kind of project.
I've been photographing lost balls for almost ten years. Not as earnestly as when I stated, but I think that's because I want to put off hitting my target of 500. The latest ball was number 476. .
It just became a habit!Thats either dedication, or lunacy, and to my eternal shame I'm not sure which
Very interesting project...Woo hoo. Just found the on-line flip-through link for my Mixam book. And it can be embedded on a website.
https://mixam.co.uk/share/5e2754f62b5b295860d2b5e6