You can win a book in our two contests - the exact rules will be published in the next posting.

I continue to work on my project "Access Control". My target is a photo book by blurb.com. They accept PDF files for printing - which is important for me because most of the book making software of the printers doesn't work on Linux. Of course there is an Open Source program for making a PDF - Scribus. It is available for all OS, even OS/2. I'll tell you about my experience in one of the next episodes.

There are a lot of photobooks to look at for inspiration at SOFOBOMO.

Then I start to edit an image. The JPEG image is a bit overblown in the highlights and I have to go back to the RAW file. Cropping turns out to be difficult and the image needs a bit of a contrast boost in some parts.

The final steps - sharpening and deciding about a vignette will be made when the layout of the book is clear. For sharpening one needs to kknow the output resolution and size - and I will have to scale the image to 300 DPI before putting it into the book. The vignette depends on the background of the page.

The TOC

00:20 The Book Challenge

05:20 A Photo Book as the target for "Access Control"

07:50 Scribus for making PDF files

10:00 Photobooks to look at

10:35 Editing an image for the book

11:15 Blown out pixelss

11:45 RAW to the rescue with UFRaw

16:28 Comparing JPEG and UFRaw output

18:50 Correcting a colour cast in UFRaw

20:45 Straightening the image

23:00 Cropping the image

26:50 Improving contrast with a layer in overlay mode and a mask

33:20 Crooping more

35:00 What's left to do