Photo book professional#

Laying out the cover can be one of the longest processes of photo book creation, and choosing the photo and art that you want to represent the whole story found inside the book can be challenging.

Photo book professional#

Portraits, wedding photos, and professional photography all look fantastic with a matte coating for that added touch of elegance. Black and white photos and darker colors look especially great with a matte coating. Matte coating adds a beautiful subtlety to the cover, giving the photos depth without adding to the reflective light instead, it grants a soft texture. Gloss coating is particularly great for photo-heavy covers or covers with very vibrant colors. Gloss coating can bring the colors of a vibrant photo to life adding saturation and brightness without a texture. While padding is mostly a personal preference, the coatings can have a greater effect. Choosing between matte and gloss-coated, or choosing to add padding or not can be tricky and can effect your cover’s presentation.

A beautiful cover may inspire you to inspect the entire cover, front and back, and it will build excitement to flip through its pages. The cover of a book is our first impression of a photo book. The Cover: As the old saying goes, 'never judge a book by its cover.' But in this industry, it’s pretty much the first thing we do.

But what does it all mean? We’re going to breakdown the anatomy of a photo book and look at the parts individually. And you have so many options when it comes to expressing your memories: hardcover, softcover, lay-flat binding, matte coating, gloss coating. They can bring you back to a moment in time and evoke the most intense emotions. Photo books can be breathtaking and vibrant.