Planning Printed Portfolio: Any New Software Available?

[jk0592]

Ari,
Look into Adobe FrameMaker, it is very, very powerful. I use it on MacOS via VMWare Fusion, since FrameMaker is now supported only on (help...) Windows.

[Ari]

Thanks, JK; will do!

[RSalles]

Renato,
Sequencing is very important; I like to take the viewer on a short journey rather than look at a book of unconnected images that were put together with little or no thought.
What I do is make test prints of each photo and stick them up on my wall, two at a time; I find out which photos work well together and which ones should be alone or possibly in a group of 3 or more.
Things change again when I start planning the pages, that's where I might introduce a mini-series of 2-3 photos or decide to play around with page layout.
It's a lot of prep and work to get to a final book, but it's also a lot of fun and quite rewarding.
As for your exhibition, it may not make sense financially to travel there, but maybe there are aspects of the presentation that you can modify to your taste or vision.
People will see those three prints of yours and make an assumption or decision about you and your work based on those 3 prints; in that sense, I think no detail is too small.
Good luck with the show!

Ari,

Thanks, showcasing our work is always a challenging experience. I've done 2 times this year already, a lot of congrats but but very little sales, unfortunately,

Cheers,

Renato

[Jim Andrada]

a lot of congrats but but very little sales, unfortunately

Hmmm. Sounds familiar,