Book
After a trip to the Saltees in the middle of June, I took the opportunity to create a book of my favourite images from there. Being a seabird sanctuary it is a book of seabird photos. Guillemots, Razorbills, Shags, Puffins and Gannets feature with the odd moth and Oystercatcher visible too. This was my first introduction to PoD (Print on Demand) publishing. Relatively speaking it was painless. Download a Microsoft Word template, populate it with pictures (this was tedious, but not hard). Then upload it for conversion to PDF. Proof it, create a cover and then order a print copy. There are quite a few online PoD suppliers, I used
lulu.com. My finished book (a vanity print really) arrived today. The actual photo print quality is reasonable, in fact compared to last months National Geographic, it's pretty good. However this came through lulu's new Spanish printer Publidisa and there have been numerous complaints about their books on lulu's forums. My book is the norm here unfortunately. There are lines on maybe 10 of the 100 pages marring the look of the photos. It's obvious that the ink has been lifted off from running through the printing presses. Pages are not exactly aligned either but this is not an issue for this book, but might be for others (if I want a double page spread for example). I was planning on releasing the book to the public for sale, but now I'll wait and see how lulu respond to my issues. If it all works out I will be putting together a book of People pictures, Landscapes, maybe a book on the last 4 Salthill Airshows, and a variety of others, possibly including a Tattoo book. It was worth doing simply for the experience but for anyone interested in getting their art out there, be it photos, paintings, drawing or writing, this could be a good avenue to look into.
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