U3AC Photography Forum 2018-19 12: Photobooks

Margaret Kerry led a session of the Forum on ‘Why Photobooks?  Well why not?’ on Friday 25^th.  She explained how she used CEWE software to produce several books in different styles and formats.  For the uninitiated she explained the choices to be made about: size, format, layout, paper, binding, typeface, and page colour and background.  Others in the group used alternative programmes like Blurb and PhotoBox.  An important area of discussion was whether to use pre-formatting or custom designs that allow greater creativity (I used the latter for books below).  Margaret made a persuasive case for photobooks: they are fun to do; help to pare down the archive; are a great way of sharing pictures and to tell a story; and they fill a short and long term social role by replacing the ‘disappearing photo album.’