This is my final printed book! It was printed to square format and using cmyk files, with each individual text page and illustration drawing in 7016 by 7016 pixels in 300 dpi. The final book measures 12 x 12 inches (or 30 x 30cm). I am really happy with the vibrancy of the colours of the background and illustrations, and although I initially regretted not sending the version with the dots as my final drawings, I am happy I didn’t. Even with the large scale, I think it would have made the background of the drawing contrast too harshly with the text on the text page to the left. I had initially decided to do every second page with a border, however when I was finalising each page, I found that the company border (only one border width available), was too large and felt incomplete, and I’m really glad that I didn’t do it. I will admit that I am a little unhappy with the front and back cover. I think I should have done a different design for the back cover, as doing the same design as the contents page feels like I didn’t think it through enough. I’m also not very happy with the front cover, as I was advised that the design wouldn’t go to the edge, however I was not aware that there would be such a large border and I really wish that it had extended to the edges. I think that the inside of the book is a lot stronger than how it looks on the outside, however I will discuss with Ashling on whether there is anything I should do to change the cover, or whether it’s okay as is. I have included two videos of my digital flip through of how my online mockup looked. There is also a pdf collage of my book pages along with the photos below in a quick video. The photos and YouTube video below are of the final book product, captured in the sun as I wanted to show how bright the colours printed!
I had originally intended to only upload the no background version of this, however I actually quite liked how it looked when it was framed by the shadow of the window, and have decided to add them too.
(This is a screenshot from how the books look on the preview section of the blog for me, I am conscious that with different browser colours, it may look different.)
