What challenges did I face?
- I really struggled with the print settings in indesign, having lost my notes from the induction. I tried to make a final mock up but I could not work out how to make it print at a certain scale and double sided. Thankfully, because I printed in the digital print room I got help and have noted down everything for next time.
- I was also baffled by the page layout in indesign and had all my images on totally the wrong pages. I printed my mock up from word and I didn't realise that indesign sorted out all of the pages for you.
What went well?
- I am really pleased with how the cover came out. I was worried that black wouldn't show on such a dark paper, but it has actually come out really nicely. The simplicity of it also gives you a bit of breathing space from the quite heavy and busy content.
- I took a lot of care when binding my book, ensuring that things line up etc. and I think that this has made worlds of difference to how the whole book comes together. The artwork is not much different from that of my mock up but the final one just looks like much more thought and time has gone into it.
- I also think that the hand made quality of the stitched binding and the paper of the end pages work well with the very handcrafted illustrations.
- I also think that the large margins work really well to give the detailed images some breathing space.
What could I have done differently?
- Having printed my book I am not happy with the text on page one. I think that it has printed too big, giving it quite a naive feel. Like text in a kids book. I definitely could have avoided this by doing a to scale mock up of my final book before printing properly.
- The colours in the images have not come out quite as bright as I would have liked them to be. This is because even though I put them together in the CMYK setting, I forgot that they weren't going to be backlit. I could have avoided this by printing some sample images in colour.
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