To begin the process of designing my photobook I started off by printing out my images into smaller versions and lying them all out on a sheet of white paper, this allowed me to clearly see what images I had and what may work well together. This can be seen through the photo underneath where I organised the photos in to pairs of what looked well together and what worked well by itself, this would help me later on when putting the photos in to Lightroom and deciding how they look next to one another. Finally to complete this process so that I was able to move on to bringing the layout in to Lightroom, I put the photos in a specific order of how I would like them to appear. Therefore, I am happy with the layout which I have chosen to experiment with in Lightroom as I think that the photos flow nicely in to one another due to the use of shapes and colours which are continued thorughout.
The layout in Lightroom –
I began the process of creating my book in Lightroom by creating an initial layout of the images which I had previously organised by hand and then started to experiment with different page layouts and what to use for my front/back cover and title.
Layouts for page spreads that I have used –
These are the 7 layouts which I have decided to use continually throughout my book, these can be seen below. I think that I have chosen a good amount of layouts to work with as there is not too many and they all work well with each other.
Left hand single page square spread.
Double page square spread.
Right hand single page square spread.
Right hand single page double picture spread.
Single portrait right hand side spread and full page rectangular spread.
Double page square spread.
Single page right hand side spread.
3/4 page spread on either left or right side.
Front cover experiments –
For this experiment, I brought the images in to photoshop and used the invert filter on an image which I had chosen to use as my front cover, personally I did not like this so I chose not to use it.
For this experiment for my cover page, I used an image on either side and lined them up in the middle.
For this experiment for my cover page, I used an image on either side but this one was slightly off centred with how it lined up which I liked as it added an element of abstraction to the image.
For this experiment for my cover page, I used an image in a square in the middle of the front cover and filled the background with a colour which was similar to the ones used in the image.
For this experiment for my cover page, I inserted an image to an image drop area on which placed it into the centre of my cover page, I then altered the opacity levels with a black colour over the top which made the image appear darker and I liked this affect more as I think that it controlled the lighting in the photograph more, therefore I chose this as the image which I will use for my front/back cover.
Title experiments –
Above, are the different experiments which I carried out when deciding on the placement of my title ‘The shadowed reflection’, I decided that it looked best in the middle of the page using the Baskerville old face font in size 28.5 in white as it stood out well amongst the cover page. I also decided to add my name on the back cover on the left hand side in the lower corner in a smaller font size of 22, this is because I didn’t want it to distract anybody from the main photo of the front cover.
