My comment on the below question:
If Emily's hard work would apply -- in terms of font -- to add a uniform
continuity to the rest, maybe her eleborate design could become the center
piece of the book and the font, which would continue through-out would all
fit together.
Otherwise, with everyone's page looking different, it would resembled a
collection of Kintergarten children's pictures being passed around to thedir
parents.
I like the idea of Emily's individuality. In the final analysis, maybe hers
could simply become the center pages.
S. Shapiro
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: book appearance - the text page
Andy and I have been discussing the text page of the projected book.
This started because I created my image page in Photoshop, combining three
images of the amaryllis which I particularly liked.
Then I created text that went together with the images, in a font and
color I particularly liked for the way it went with the photographs, also
in Photoshop. Then I had two pages (one images, one text), both photoshop
files. And I sent them off the Andy's book address.
Then some further guidelines were proposed on the list the jist of which
were to make the text pages uniform across the entire book, and proposing
a font I think is boring and ugly.
So I set my thoughts aside and went on with the captioning and keywording
with which I have been fussing for a week now. I even broke out my
wretched SCSI scanner and dug out the final 30 negs, got them scanned and
spotted, keyworded and captioned.
Having finished that part of the project I came back to the book pages
idea and emailed Andy to see what he thought I should be planning for my
text page.
So we decided to throw the question open to the list:
Do we want the book to have the text pages all the same, basically, the
same font, the same type of information, the same size and space on the
page? Or are there members among us who would like the text to be part of
their presentation in a more artistic or adventurous or individualistic
way?
My idea was to let it go either way - those who wished to create their
text pages could do so, and those who wished to let the gnomes take their
text and put it into a uniform format could also do so.
Perhaps the unifying text element could be the font rather than the
formatting? Perhaps the unifying element could simply be having the
images on the recto and the text on the verso?
What do you all think?
--
Emily L. Ferguson
mailto:elf@xxxxxxxx
508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races
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