The document discusses creating a photo ebook to showcase one's best photos. A photo ebook presents photos in a neat, pleasing book format that allows people to easily share photos with family and friends. It encourages selecting only the highest quality photos to tell a story or share an experience. Creating the ebook digitally makes it free to produce and easy to distribute online or in PDF format. The document provides tips for designing an effective photo ebook, such as using a catchy cover, varying layouts, and establishing a focal point to engage viewers.
2. What is a Photo-ebook?
• It is a new concept album.
• A beautiful and high quality book with the photos in
it.
• Able to show the photos to a wider audience.
3. Why a Photo-ebook?
• It presents the best photos in a neat and also
pleasing in appearance format.
• It kinds of forces one to pick the very best photos.
• Being in a self-contained book format makes it easy
for people to pass around to their family and
friends.
4. Why electric format?
• It is free and can be done with free tools.
• It can be reproduced and distribute it to family and
friends with just a little effort.
• It is rather easy to make corrections or revisions
even though the Photo Ebook has been published
online for people to view.
6. Consideration 1 : [Book cover]
• The first thing that places target audience’s mind go
is the book cover
• A catchy yet decent book cover would be able to
attract target audience’s attention.
7. Consideration 2: [Less is more]
• Think about the end size of the photo-book.
• Consider the number of photos to be put into a
spread.
8. Consideration 3: [Establish a Focal
Point.]
• Having a beautiful photo that one is proud of,
highlight it and put it into a spread.
• Having more than one photo in the layout is to
display one or two larger photos with smaller
supporting photos.
9. Consideration 4: [Vary the spreads.]
• Vary the spreads to prevent viewers getting bored,
• Take the layout, reconfigure or make a slight
change so that it does not look the same.
• Key point is to not bore the viewers.
10. Consideration 5: [Tell a story.]
• Photo-book is meant to tell a story.
• If one is showing vacation photos, one is sharing
experiences with family and friends.
• Make friends and family feel like they were on the
trip with you.
11. Pros and cons of Photo Ebook
• Pros
– Cost would be cheaper because high quality printed
book can be expensive per copy.
– Individuals are more likely to have a small collection of
high quality images than having a big unfiltered gallery.
• Cons
– The format requirement.
12. Problems that I am going to tackle on.
• Select the best photos of high quality.
• A simple design layout
• No cramping of images and using too much text to
it.
14. Photo Ebook
• Requirements of the Photo • Research.
Ebook.
– Tutorials.
– The alignment of the images
– Viewing the good Photo
that is going to show the
viewers.
Ebook online to gain some
inspirations.
– Background color used for
the Photo Ebook.
– Fonts used in the Photo
Ebook.
15. Photo Ebook
• Target Audience. • Photo Ebook Editing.
– Teenagers; they usually will – Simple design and layout
take more photos, be it they • Requirements for the users.
are out with friends or at
• Make the most of the
home alone.
space because small
– Teenagers are more tech images are not going to
savvy. ‘wow’ the viewers.
• Have a variety of image
layouts throughout the
Photo Ebook because
having images of the same
layout on every page can
be boring.
16. The design process…
• Selecting of images.
– Select images that are of the highest quality.
– Group them up accordingly.
• Design elements
– Colors, lines, borders and text are things that needs to
decide before laying the Photo Ebook out.
– Balance it with simplicity.
– Think about the mood that is set for the viewer.
17. The design process Cont’d…
• Text
– Small captions for images are nice and viewers often
would like to know what does each photo is about.
• Laying images out.
– Size and orientation of the page will determine the
number of images that will fit on the page itself.
– Line up the edges of images so that it will give the
viewers a clean and balanced look.
26. 3 tryout
rd
• A book cover provided.
• Followed by one big image at one of the pages,
together with a short descriptive text.
• Then followed by smaller images on the other page
and also comes with a short descriptive text.
• It will be categorized accordingly in this case
41. Purpose of using different colors.
• Able to stimulate emotions and trigger memories.
• It will somehow give a fun and fresh feel because of
the bright colors used.
42. Images on each page…
• Before laying out in the Photo Ebook, all of the
images that are going to be included will be
grouped (eg, grouped according to destination)
accordingly.
• After grouping the images up accordingly, it will
somehow make the laying out a little simpler
• It will not give a messy feel to the viewers.
43. • The main topic is ‘Adventure at Beaches’.
• There are a few topics that are related to
‘Adventure at Beaches’ in one photo album.
• It can act as a digital photo book online, and also
can be viewed in PDF format.