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Post by potet on Jan 20, 2021 18:00:26 GMT
To test the cost of colour books, I created a 6x9 private book of pictures with screen captures of the game The Sims, organizing them into a plausible story. It has twenty pages, all, except page 20 (reserved for the manufacturer), with a colour background; 16 pages have colour pictures. I opted for the standard colour on 60g paper. I wanted a soft cover, but only spiral was available (because of the small number of pages). All the same, I thought I would have to pay about 20€ for the cost. Not at all. The manufacturing of this booklet is only 4.35€!   |
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Post by potet on Jan 23, 2021 19:55:59 GMT
I have just created a new private photo-novel booklet (Histoires Simiennes, volume 1): colour, 64p, 6x9", 60g paper, soft bound. The manufacturing cost is only 3.92€! Do you think it is cheaper than the 16 page booklet (4.35€) because it is not spiral bound, but softbound?
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Post by benziger on Jan 23, 2021 20:16:42 GMT
With which POD provider?
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Post by potet on Jan 23, 2021 21:08:05 GMT
 Both with Lulu.com, Benziger. |
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Post by potet on Jan 27, 2021 13:00:22 GMT
I have just received the spiral-bound draft this morning (2021-01-27). The book was manufactured in France, hence the short delay between order and delivery.
The colors are amazingly good although I opted for the less expensive on 60g paper.
The original pictures are a bit dark so I'll have to make them brighter for the final version.
Another problem is the format - it is definitely too small (6x9") with three landscape picture per page so that the captions are hard to make out.
I'll have to try a larger format with two landscape pictures per page.
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Post by Ken on Jan 27, 2021 13:15:37 GMT
Comic Book
6.63 x 10.25 in | 168 x 260 mm
Traditional size used for comic book printing.
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Post by Ken on Jan 27, 2021 13:18:46 GMT
Comic Book
6.63 x 10.25 in | 168 x 260 mm
Traditional size used for comic book printing.
By the way I still think you have too much text on each page the way you do it.
I suggest you revisit use of bubbles and balloons.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 13:52:52 GMT
Ken is right, I think the text needs to stand out and be made more readable by having it contained in something. I've taken the liberty of overlaying some semi-transparent frames around the existing text as a test and in my opinion it tightens everything up, text doesn't bleed into the background image as much and your eye is led immediately to it. An opaque background to the frame might be better with contrasting colour text but the transparency keeps the graphics somewhat visible.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2021 14:46:48 GMT
Ken is right, I think the text needs to stand out and be made more readable by having it contained in something. I've taken the liberty of overlaying some semi-transparent frames around the existing text as a test and in my opinion it tightens everything up, text doesn't bleed into the background image as much and your eye is led immediately to it. An opaque background to the frame might be better with contrasting colour text but the transparency keeps the graphics somewhat visible.
What do you think? I like the rounded square frames but I think text should be black on white. Not readable as is. |
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Post by potet on Jan 27, 2021 18:58:41 GMT
I'll experiment with the comic book format. I had a look at Lulu for that, and they haven't bothered to give the dimensions. I had to look in the box of my documents on Lulu to retrieve them. Thanks Ken for recalling them: " 6.63 x 10.25 in | 168 x 260 mm". In my file, the exact dimensions are : 1683 x 2603  |
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Post by potet on Jan 27, 2021 19:01:20 GMT
Ken is right, I think the text needs to stand out and be made more readable by having it contained in something. I've taken the liberty of overlaying some semi-transparent frames around the existing text as a test and in my opinion it tightens everything up, text doesn't bleed into the background image as much and your eye is led immediately to it. An opaque background to the frame might be better with contrasting colour text but the transparency keeps the graphics somewhat visible.
What do you think? Yes, it's an interesting idea. I'll try it. Thanks. |
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Post by Ken on Jan 28, 2021 9:18:17 GMT
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Post by potet on Jan 28, 2021 23:25:07 GMT
All these pieces of advice will be useful for another project because I no longer have the original pictures; I must have thrown them away after I added the captions to the copies ... That was a couple of years ago. Too bad. Can't be helped now.
Enlarging everything does not improve the readability of the captions enough. I'll keep this project as a PDF
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Post by potet on Jan 29, 2021 15:08:06 GMT
Finally I might save the work already done saved by enlarging the part with the caption, and inverting the colors in that part (text becomes black).  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2021 22:37:13 GMT
You don't necessarily have to invert a whole block this way to get black text, especially as it results in background colours being inverted as well. You can lift the text off the picture by masking it and a bit of pre-processing leaving you with a transparent background and black text layer. You may have to clean up the result a bit here and there but once you have that you can can paste it back against a solid background hiding the text underneath. Or by adding it as a top layer to a semi-transparent window it will cover up the existing letters underneath without messing up the colours. It's not a long or complicated procedure but if you've got hundreds of pictures and captions to process then it is going to take a while to convert them all this way.
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