Book Function - Apple Apeture 3

[Duke]

I wanted to share with you all a function that I just found in Apple Aperture 3.

It is their Book building function. How cool is this?!?!....

Super easy to use, I wish power point or keynote were this easy... And if you use either of those programs, you know those are anything but difficult, and thats my point!

Simply go to the menu and select book.

You will get some theme choices to select from, Hard Cover vs. Soft Cover. Xtra-Large all the way to Very Small

I ended up choosing "Medium" and the "Snapshot" theme.

After that.... you drag and drop photos from collections (called projects in Aperture but I am used to lightrooms vernacular), into the "Book". The photos are viewable in a window/film strip at the bottom of the screen. Then you just drag the photo on to the template place holder in the window above the film strip. To create your book.

Then fill in the text fields, add some more text fields if you want to.... Viola!

Here are screen shots of my final draft ... that I swear took longer to define which pictures I wanted to use than it did to create the book. In a few days I will have the book in my hands and I will be able to tell you what I think about the quality.

Thanks for looking, your comments are appreciated.

Later,
Duke

P.S. For more information....
http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/print-products.html

 

[M38A1]

How much do the copies run?

 

[Duke]

How much do the copies run?

From here. http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/print-products.html

I added a couple of pages to my book, so I spent just under 11 bucks for the book itself

Shipping & Handling was a bit steep though. Here is my actual receipt.

I don't go to bars, gave up my Copenhagen habit over thanksgiving, and I know that dropping 20 bucks for novelty is a bit much, but come on... I spent more than that the last time I went to the movie theater. Hopefully this will be of nice quality and something that my more technologically challenged family members will enjoy too.

 

[sharkey]

Cool. I just got done with my 2010 book. I need two things and I will be finished. I'll upload to FB so my friends can proof read it.

I think mine ran 34 pages, hard cover, with photo jacket and it will come out to around $60 +S&H. I'm using mypublisher for book design since I'm using Windows.

 

[Duke]

I had bought Aperture with my iMac last year. But never really got too attached to it. I am more of a Lightroom fan. But I have to say that this book option, and there are a couple of other neat things that Aperture does that Lightroom does not do is making me give it another chance to my preferred editor.

Sharkey, who are you printing your book with?

 

[tricepilot]

 

[sharkey]

Here is mine. Hopefully link works and no code is needed.

http://www.mypublisher.com/?e=OHm3Q8zJl3T8eUzGoYF2XpRPOO1dCex9&_mp=OZK/Kz9JmFlgxGWGWZfHQbM2d18UBpPd

 

[Duke]

Here is mine. Hopefully link works and no code is needed.

http://www.mypublisher.com/?e=OHm3Q8zJl3T8eUzGoYF2XpRPOO1dCex9&_mp=OZK/Kz9JmFlgxGWGWZfHQbM2d18UBpPd

Thats outstanding! LOVE "The End". I really like it. Thanks too for sharing mypublisher. I have never heard of them before and when you mentioned them earlier, I just assumed it as a windows program like publisher or powerpoint. I didn't realize they were a printing company!.

 

[sharkey]

Thanks for the kind words. I'll ding STScott and just say that I only know of mypublisher because Costco members get 20% off and I am a cheapskate. Total for the book will be right at $39. I overestimated it a tad.

We've done 3 other books with them and have been very happy.

The wife wasn't happy when she saw "that" photo. I told her to look thru the whole book before passing judgment.