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DIY coffee table book
« on: April 06, 2016, 09:44:45 PM »
I was wandering around my local Japanese department store last weekend looking for origami paper for my son's geometry project and I came across this.



It had a picture of a Pentax K1000 on the front, so I picked it up, not knowing what I would do with it. I'm not much of a 'scrapbooker'. Once I got it home and sort of pondered it and realized the pages were square, I thought I would take a shot at making a little coffee table book of my photos. I don't print many of them, so this would give me an excuse to do it. I am using my fairly inexpensive Epson inkjet, so I am not expecting museum archival quality, just something to look at once in a while. I am trying to make diptychs with similarly themed or composed photos. The prints are 5x5 with a .25" border. Here are a couple pages.




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Re: DIY coffee table book
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2016, 09:54:58 PM »
Looks excellent.  You could even produce a photo to adhere to the front of the book to provide a book title and cover over reference to the fact that it's intended as a scrap book.
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Re: DIY coffee table book
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2016, 10:13:28 PM »
Most scrapbooks nowadays are actually acid free, so your pictures should be pretty safe in there.
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