Track day photo book

mercphoto

Looking for some feedback on the photo book design I've published up here:

http://mercphoto.exposuremanager.com/g/boxers_and_boxsters

This is a first-pass and I could definitely do better with the cover, and better with the text on the first page. But I'm reasonably "done" with the remaining page designs and layouts.

This is my first attempt at using Aperture to design a photo book and to use it to design a book for publication by a different vendor. I setup a custom theme for the particular book vendor I'd use and also created new master page layouts for this. I was surprised how quickly the whole book came together, especially compared to my old way of doing photo books, a page at a time in Photoshop.

Thanks for any feedback!

mercphoto

Cover design, I put little effort into this:


Opening page, I want to work more on this:


I've put more work into the following pages. I've used a mix of pre-made master pages from within Aperture to doing my own master pages.
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ian408

That's a pretty good idea. I'm not sure about the framing. On 6/7 as an example. one page is framed and the other without. If that's really the case, I'd pick one style and stick with it.

mercphoto

ian408 wrote:

That's a pretty good idea. I'm not sure about the framing. On 6/7 as an example. one page is framed and the other without. If that's really the case, I'd pick one style and stick with it.

Good point. I can see sticking to the same style on facing pages. Now I'm also wondering if it should be one or the other for an entire book.

ian408

mercphoto wrote:

Good point. I can see sticking to the same style on facing pages. Now I'm also wondering if it should be one or the other for an entire book.

I like the consistency. So maybe one style?