Re: book appearance - the text page

trevor cunningham <tr_cunningham@xxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:53:27 -0700 (PDT)

Although there should be some variety as to content and information offered from the photographers, I think there should be some consistency in layout and presentation... makes it look more professional IMO.  Although, if one of the intentions of the book is to highlight the styles and personalities of list members, you have an excellent point.  But, this doesn't exactly jive with the premise of "keeping it simple".

"Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:  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
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