For my final layout I wanted to use a mixture of archival images and new images.
Possible Layouts:
Before creating my book I placed all of the images I wanted to use in a whole different folder (collection). I then played around with the sequencing of the images to make the layout process easier.
Title layouts:
I like this on the most I think because it looks neat
But this has also been growing on me because it looks symmetrical when it’s in the middle and I think it catches the attention more
Least favourite because its the least familiar to me so it looks odd
Title ideas:
12345 No title, just an image 1. I like this title because my photobook is almost like a family album and dedicated to my mum and her life. ‘Me’ is me and ‘you’ is my mum. 2. Life doesn’t stop after you have kids. It keeps going and you also become part of your children’s life. (something like that) 3. This title just means that everything happens for a reason and it’s a phrase my mum says a lot. So even though she doesn’t live in Romania anymore and is not in contact with her childhood friends, it doesn’t matter because the universe brought her to Jersey for the better. 4. This title is in Romanian and it translates to ‘What was to be’, meaning that everything that happened was meant to and we are in the right place. Similar to the last title.
Front/Back covers:
wanted to see what it would look like if I had two images on both sides of the coverI made them smaller so that could look neatercreated a black backgrounddecided to invert the back mages using photoshop (image>adjustments>invert OR Ctrl + I)First cover ideaI really like this image as a cover, However the resolution is too low so it would look pixelated.I didn’t like the black cover so I decided to go for a light pink.I tried different shades and stuck with this one. I like this colour because pink represents femininity.I wanted to see what the cover woul dlook like with the image on the front with the title.I like it more with the image at the back and the title alone.I changed the image.Random cover ideas – I thought it might be interesting to have a timeline as a cover but I really don’t like it. I should’ve maybe changed the colour of the background or used other images. The other idea was to add mine and my mum’s old passports as the covers, but I didn’t like it because it was too plain and I also don’t like the colours of the passports.
Opening page ideas:
For my first page I knew I wanted to have a timeline of images introducing the rest of the photobook. I really liked the page layout with the film roll so I used that. My first design consisted of 6 images that went across a double page, leaving a lot of empty space which I didn’t like. I then tried the other layout that had 25 images and filled only one page. It intimidated me at first because of the amount of images I had to use, but I ended up really liking it. I didn’t like the empty page next o it be so I just added an images of my mum’s old passport from 2002.
Portrait or Landscape?
Landscape – This layout was the most convenient because most of my images are landscapes, meaning they fit easier on the pages. However, I didn’t like how some of the images were really zoomed in. I also don’t like the actual shape of the photobook because it’s so much harder to store when it’s in landscape because of its awkward length.
Portrait – I like this layout because it’s very convenient when storing the photobook because it’s in the shape of most textbooks, notebooks etc. I also liked how the portraits images fit and how the landscape ones looked on a double page because they weren’t too zoomed in. The only thing I didn’t like was how if I wanted to have one landscape on one page fully, I would have to either turn in and make it portrait or put two of them. This made some pages look cluttered.
Different page layouts I’ve used:
I favourited some page layouts to keep everything consistent in my photobook.
