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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: jjoejr on March 11, 2006, 09:02:46 pm

Title: Coffee Table Books
Post by: jjoejr on March 11, 2006, 09:02:46 pm: Has anyone published there own coffee table book with there photos? Would like to know your thoughts of the quality and who did it. I've seen a few publishers. Going price is about 30 bucks for 20 pages.

John
Title: Coffee Table Books
Post by: jani on March 12, 2006, 07:38:15 am: Quote
Has anyone published there own coffee table book with there photos? Would like to know your thoughts of the quality and who did it. I've seen a few publishers. Going price is about 30 bucks for 20 pages.
Michael wrote an essay on this a while ago. (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/100-books.shtml)
Title: Coffee Table Books
Post by: DarkPenguin on March 12, 2006, 10:29:00 am: http://www.naturephotographers.net/article...5/mh0405-1.html (http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0405/mh0405-1.html)

http://www.naturephotographers.net/article...5/mh0905-1.html (http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0905/mh0905-1.html)
Title: Coffee Table Books
Post by: C4D on March 29, 2006, 11:28:38 am: I did one a couple months ago through Apple Aperture, I was pretty impressed with the quality of the book but the price is a bit steep if your plan to resell the book
Title: Coffee Table Books
Post by: ricwis on March 29, 2006, 02:02:01 pm: I've used Viovio at www.viovio.com and was pleased with the results. Probably not the quality of the better shops, but not the price either. My 50 page books was $20. The covers of the perfect bound books is very nice with a nice lamination.

The nice thing about Viovio is the ease in laying out the book. After you have uploaded your photos, you can caption them then number them in the order you want them to appear in the book. No clicking and dragging photos around. By selectiin one photo as your gallery photo, it becomes the cover page. Adding text to the cover and spine is a nice touch.