Off I went to the Range, which was proving to be a very useful store for my current work. Once there I began to wander to see what I could find, what I purchased was; a white chalk pencil, guillotine (for cutting the photographs), double sided tape, and a sewing kit in case I wanted to make the album by hand. What I also found when looking through the store was the perfect photo album, it had a leather outside with black pages within, as well as the tracing paper sort of thing to protect the photographs.
Once home I begin attempting to design how I wanted the pages of the book to look, I did this on several different programs such as illustrator and photoshop, but unfortunately I was getting nowhere. So to get myself going I decided to label out the pages in an order, attempting to make the album follow a story.
I then decided to google online album creators, this provided me a series of different programs that would help me create my final album. The one program that I felt was the most useful to me was one called Blurb, it was easy to use, and gave the option of pre designed pages.
The only difficulty I ended up having was when it came to printing the photographs after I had designed the pages, this was due to me using a trial version. However, I worked around this by creating a document the size of my albums pages, and then transferring the pictures onto there, making them into a similar size as the ones on Blurb.
Once I had gotten the pictures to the correct/similar size as I wanted, I had printed them all off, and then came the fun task of chopping them all up allowing a white border around the photographs. Thankfully this is why I bought a guillotine from the shop, because I knew I would be chopping up more photos and it would be easier to do it at home rather than walk into uni. It was then a case of making sure all of the photographs had double sided tape on the back, otherwise I don't think they would have stayed in the book very well.
Then it was time to begin placing the photos onto the actual pages of the album, which was when I discovered my first issue with this version. When placing some photos down they were wonky, and unfortunately this became very clear to me, and began to get on my nerves. So the next second I found myself ripping out the pages in order to start again. Unfortunately this left a giant gap in the album which looked strange, so I then had to separate the different parts of the album in order to create a new one from it. This actually worked out in my favour in the end because it meant there wasn't a large section of the book with nothing in it, which was another issue I was having with the other book.
The only issue with doing it this way was that the spine of the album looked strange, this was due to the fact that the spine was cut down in order to shrink the album. Initially to solve this I covered it with brown paper, but I placed it slightly off so everything began sticking on the glue that wasn't covered, and it just wasn't a pleasant site. So after much deliberation I decided to use black material to cover the brown paper, as well as making a nice looking spine for the album. I believe this worked quite well, and works with the theme of the book.
Heres what the album now looks like:
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