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Chapter 24 Creating Books 508
Important: Books created in Aperture are not visible when working with your Aperture library
in iPhoto. However, your Aperture books are not discarded. To view and work with your Aperture
books, open the Aperture library in Aperture.
Planning Your Book
The amount of planning and work involved in creating a book varies with the type of project
you’re undertaking. If you’re creating wedding photo albums, you may be primarily concerned
with creating a reusable book design into which you can quickly place photos that tell the
wedding story. The end result may be one or several printed copies per project.
On the other hand, producing a large book, such as a coee table book, may require a good
deal of planning, writing, design, page composition, proong, and production work. In addition,
you’ll want to look ahead and decide how the manuscript should be printed and bound, the
number of copies for the print run, and what copyright and permissions information your book
should include.
For relatively simple books, here are some of the typical steps in the publishing process.
Stage 1: Planning Your Book’s Cover
Choose a cover photo and decide what text should appear on the cover.
Stage 2: Creating Copyright Notices
Create any copyright or permissions notices you need.
Stage 3: Creating a Book Album
Create a book album and choose a theme for your book.
Stage 4: Choosing the Book’s Photos
Place the book’s photos in the book album and arrange them in the Browser in the order in
which they should appear in the book. Don’t place the photos on your pages yet.
Stage 5: Specifying the Book’s Settings
Specify any overall settings for the book, such as size, hardcover or softcover binding, page
numbering, and so on.
Stage 6: Creating the Book’s Pages
Create the number of pages you need and apply master page designs to them.
Stage 7: Placing Photos in the Book
Have Aperture automatically place your photos, or drag the photos onto your pages.
Stage 8: Repositioning and Resizing Photos
Reposition and resize photos, adjusting individual page layouts if necessary.
Stage 9: Adding Text to Your Book
Add text to your pages and cover.
Stage 10: Proong Your Book
Print a proof and carefully review the text and layout of the book.