Creating a Book
As many people who follow me on my social media will know I am finishing my current project looking at the Welsh Springer Spaniel, for my final year at university. As part of this project I decided to create a book entitled, The Welsh Springer Spaniel 'From Companion to Showman'. This book looks at the characteristics of the breed through my own photographs and quotes from owners and handlers.
To create this book I worked with a company call BobBooks. There have many options on how to create the book, you can use their online builder, they can create it for you, you can create it in InDesign or you can download their own software. I ended up using the downloadable software and I would totally recommend it if you are not as confident with InDesign. I found that the software was easy to use and helped me with every step and I wouldn't of changed the way I created this book.
Above is a screen shot of my book when I was in the process of making it. It shows two pages with photographs, a title and text. On the left side there is the range of photographs which I was including in my book, each one gets a green tick once it has been included in the book. At the bottom of the shot is a list of all the pages of my book, I am able to scroll through and click on any page to bring it up and at the end it has an option to add more pages.
To the right is a screen shot of the bar which lets you select the layouts of each page. You can chose how many photos you want on each page, whether you want text and what size the photos are. All you have to do is click on which layout you want then drag it onto the page you are working on. I found this really helpful and would defiantly use this company and program again if I create another book. Below are two photographs of my finished book, which I am so pleased with and cannot wait to show it to the owners of the dogs which have been included in my book.
