Benjamin Stanley wrote on 10/10/09 at 19:53 >iPhoto would be superb for this, you can use the built in book making >tools to sort the layout then print yourself or save as a PDF for the >e-version and for printing commercially. You can choose to use the >Apple printing service, I've been very happy with the results from >this. The hardback books might seem pricey but the production is superb >and the prints on nice Kodak stock.
as someone who's done a smaller version of what you describe, I'd second this to the point of saying that a non-expert (or even an expert) would be insane to use anything else without a large budget. Someone recently posted a link to a Youtube clip about 'graphic designer vs client'. It's full of swearing and the funniest bit is the client asking 'will you be using Microsoft Word?'. Someone politely steered you away from Word. Allow me to be blunter and talk of bargepoles and Word for this project! Under no circumstances would I use Word for this...~-) and iPhoto will allow you to easily create a web-version too, if you want to use that, or a DVD (just about anything in fact). But I warn you that scanning photos in is time-consuming and you can easily get errors (eg dust and specks). It's worth expecting problems or minor errors so I suggest you scan a few and do everything you want to do using those (rather than realise your scans are not quite good enough to print when you have done 150). Do a mini-project with 10 of them, and scan at the best quality you can manage -- you can always reduce the photos later but you can't improve them. Use an eco-cloth to keep the scanner bed dust and spot-free, take your time with the scanning. Play with the scanner settings to see how to get the best results in print. Also, what you see on one screen may not be what it will look like printed (eg can be darker/lighter/washed out). Thus I suggest doing a full mini version so you can make all possible mistakes in a manageable way! good luck. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
