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Photo Book - Advanced ArtworkingThis is a page for those who wish to create custom
layouts using professional artworking applications. Some degree of layout experience
is required.
Internal page templates (PDF format) A5 A4 landscape A4 portrait A3 This is just for reference so that you can envisage the above information. Note there is only 1 mm bleed on the inside of the spread (it doesn't have to be so much as the rest owing to the page going into the spine). Cover templates A5 A4 landscape A4 portrait A3 These are in photoshop format, and are the back, spine and front cover all together. We print it in one piece and then wrap it around the board to make the cover. The front of the book is the right hand side. IMPORTANT Bleed is an essential part of edge to edge printing. The idea is that the image is printed larger than you need and is guillotined to fit. Therefore be very careful not to put anything near the cropped edges. See diagram below of a right-hand page:  DIAGRAM NOTES -Full image with bleed You need to supply an image that sits inside the full print area 3. This is what we print. EG for an A5 photo book you will have supplied a picture of the dimensions 200mm wide x 151 deep. If you do not supply to these dimensions we will zoom and crop at our discretion. -The crop zone We then guillotine the page to fit the lighter section, area 2. The darker bit around the edge is cut off. It is necessary to cut it smaller than we print because it means that the pages are always squared up and reach the edge of the page. Some movement and skew may occur during production, so this way even if the image moves when cutting you will still get a great result. -The safe area Area 1 is the safe area. When making montages, or inset pictures, or lines, or anything else, please keep it within area 1. Area 1 is approx 1cm inset from the final cropped area. Anything that goes too near the edge may look like a 'mistake' when the book is finally bound. Keep complex layout within area 1! Cropmarks There is no need to make any areas light or darker like the above image. It is coloured in the example simply to illustrate the point. Likewise do not include images with cropmarks. Bleed Remember that due to the bespoke nature of our product some movement and skew can occur, although obviously we try to keep this to a minimum. File formats We recommend that you supply images as TIF, JPG, EPS, PDF. We can though work with a lot of file formats, so if you want to send us something in a less universal format please give us a call. Materials We print to satin book cloth for the cover which is then hand bound. Some marginal shrinkage is to be expected although this is unnoticeable and we allow for this in the planning. Internal pages 160gsm white silk paper. Portrait Photos We rotate all photographs 90° so the head is to the left, unless you specify otherwise. Common Sense We use common sense with assembling these books, and anything that does not fit perfectly we will either crop or zoom in sensibly. If you foresee any problem areas please indicate them to us at time of order. We naturally do our best to achieve best results but we print what we are given. Double page spreads are fine for scenic panoramas but are not advised where there are key features like text or faces that need to meet perfectly in the middle. Our books do not open completely flat and the hand bound process means we need to have some of the image deep in the central bind so no white edges show. Text as an image Because images are printed as halftones, text supplied as an image is inadvisable unless you have overlayed it in a proper page layout program and have exported it as PDF. We would recommend sending any images and text separately, the text being sent as a digital text format. Tip: Remember not to leave important things close to the edge. Even with a perfect crop it always looks nice to have a little room around the edge of the page. Tip: White covers look good but mark easily. Yes you can clean off but it's not that practical.
After all the work you have undertaken it make sense to have the personalised box too!
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