Courting page changed!

In the end I didn't really like the layout of my Courting page, so I made some changes!

Original:

What it looks like now:

Rabbit finished!

DPI

I've been asking my friends if they've knew of any good printing places in Bournemouth, and quite a couple of people said about this place 'Design Print Internet'. They actually were one of the top searches on Google, so I had already looked at their website.
Today I emailed them to see if I could book an appointment, and they said I could come by this afternoon.
They showed me the different types of paper I could have my book printed on, I've chose to have it matt finish.
It's only going to cost me £20 and I'll get two copies, so I thought that was pretty good!

Now all I need to do is finish my book and send it off to them!

8th April Deadline

Today we had to had in our work so far, but hopefully it would've been finished. I have pretty much finished, but I've still got to do that back page.
Here is what I've handed in:
Easter break now, but I think I'll staying here doing more work :(

Courting title page!

As well as sorting out other bits in indesign, today I've been creating a title page for my Courting section. I've used the Frigate Bird, the Rifle bird and the Porcupine as examples of what the section contains.

I might change the layout of these eventually though, not too sure about it at the moment.

Example book page

Here is my tortoise page, see I've done it the same way the Miffy books are layed out. Text on one page, image on the other.
I'm using quite subtle colours throughout to fit in with the organic kind of style of the text.

Changing the sizes of the porcupine and salamander

When I did a test print on my book, the images of the porcupine and the salamander looked really small on the page compared to the tortoises. This is because the images are next to each other, it left a lot of space above and below them. To resolve this I've decided to move them about, so;

What was this

Is now like this

And what was like this



Is now like this

Having them like this means I can make the images a lot bigger!