Robert Watcher
Well-known member
Had a lot of fun producing our first “zine” at home over the last couple of days. It may have been more cost effective to send the printing to Blurb, but not as personalized.
Anne needed a small booklet containing a collection of her completed quilts, to have sitting beside the quilts that she is selling, as a reference to her abilities. I introduced her to the concept of a Zine, and designed it in Affinity Publisher. Once I realized that program did all the work of reassigning individual pages (sides) so they printed properly on the full sheets of paper - example pages 1 & 20 are now side one of the sheet and pages 2 & 19 are on the other side —- I went to town printing on my photo printer.
Initially we were going to do the typical staples down the spine to attach the pages, and then Anne came up with the idea of using embroidery floss instead to personalize to her creations. I think she is pretty pleased, and now we’ll head on to a collection of Baby Quilts for the same purpose.
As well I am now prepared to find a way to make use of this type of design work for my own body of photographs.
Anne needed a small booklet containing a collection of her completed quilts, to have sitting beside the quilts that she is selling, as a reference to her abilities. I introduced her to the concept of a Zine, and designed it in Affinity Publisher. Once I realized that program did all the work of reassigning individual pages (sides) so they printed properly on the full sheets of paper - example pages 1 & 20 are now side one of the sheet and pages 2 & 19 are on the other side —- I went to town printing on my photo printer.
Initially we were going to do the typical staples down the spine to attach the pages, and then Anne came up with the idea of using embroidery floss instead to personalize to her creations. I think she is pretty pleased, and now we’ll head on to a collection of Baby Quilts for the same purpose.
As well I am now prepared to find a way to make use of this type of design work for my own body of photographs.