1. PD Idea: Photo Ebook

2. What is a Photo-ebook?
• It is a new concept album.
• A beautiful and high quality book with the photos in
it.
• Able to show the photos to a wider audience.

3. Why a Photo-ebook?
• It presents the best photos in a neat and also
pleasing in appearance format.
• It kinds of forces one to pick the very best photos.
• Being in a self-contained book format makes it easy
for people to pass around to their family and
friends.

4. Why electric format?
• It is free and can be done with free tools.
• It can be reproduced and distribute it to family and
friends with just a little effort.
• It is rather easy to make corrections or revisions
even though the Photo Ebook has been published
online for people to view.

5. Things to consider / add in a
Photo-book, in terms of the
layout.

6. Consideration 1 : [Book cover]
• The first thing that places target audience’s mind go
is the book cover
• A catchy yet decent book cover would be able to
attract target audience’s attention.

7. Consideration 2: [Less is more]
• Think about the end size of the photo-book.
• Consider the number of photos to be put into a
spread.

8. Consideration 3: [Establish a Focal
Point.]
• Having a beautiful photo that one is proud of,
highlight it and put it into a spread.
• Having more than one photo in the layout is to
display one or two larger photos with smaller
supporting photos.

9. Consideration 4: [Vary the spreads.]
• Vary the spreads to prevent viewers getting bored,
• Take the layout, reconfigure or make a slight
change so that it does not look the same.
• Key point is to not bore the viewers.

10. Consideration 5: [Tell a story.]
• Photo-book is meant to tell a story.
• If one is showing vacation photos, one is sharing
experiences with family and friends.
• Make friends and family feel like they were on the
trip with you.

11. Pros and cons of Photo Ebook
• Pros
– Cost would be cheaper because high quality printed
book can be expensive per copy.
– Individuals are more likely to have a small collection of
high quality images than having a big unfiltered gallery.
• Cons
– The format requirement.

12. Problems that I am going to tackle on.
• Select the best photos of high quality.
• A simple design layout
• No cramping of images and using too much text to
it.

13. Design Considerations

14. Photo Ebook
• Requirements of the Photo • Research.
Ebook.
– Tutorials.
– The alignment of the images
– Viewing the good Photo
that is going to show the
viewers.
Ebook online to gain some
inspirations.
– Background color used for
the Photo Ebook.
– Fonts used in the Photo
Ebook.

15. Photo Ebook
• Target Audience. • Photo Ebook Editing.
– Teenagers; they usually will – Simple design and layout
take more photos, be it they • Requirements for the users.
are out with friends or at
• Make the most of the
home alone.
space because small
– Teenagers are more tech images are not going to
savvy. ‘wow’ the viewers.
• Have a variety of image
layouts throughout the
Photo Ebook because
having images of the same
layout on every page can
be boring.

16. The design process…
• Selecting of images.
– Select images that are of the highest quality.
– Group them up accordingly.
• Design elements
– Colors, lines, borders and text are things that needs to
decide before laying the Photo Ebook out.
– Balance it with simplicity.
– Think about the mood that is set for the viewer.

17. The design process Cont’d…
• Text
– Small captions for images are nice and viewers often
would like to know what does each photo is about.
• Laying images out.
– Size and orientation of the page will determine the
number of images that will fit on the page itself.
– Line up the edges of images so that it will give the
viewers a clean and balanced look.

18. 1st tryout
Target audience: Teenagers

20. 1 tryout
st
• Having a plain book cover.
• Every page would have a big image and a short
descriptive text below the image.

21. 2nd tryout
Target audience: Teenagers

23. 2 tryout
nd
• A short introductory text provided at the book cover.
• Followed by the images on every page.
• No short descriptive text given.

24. 3rd tryout
Target audience: Teenagers

26. 3 tryout
rd
• A book cover provided.
• Followed by one big image at one of the pages,
together with a short descriptive text.
• Then followed by smaller images on the other page
and also comes with a short descriptive text.
• It will be categorized accordingly in this case

27. 4th tryout
Target audience: Teenagers

29. 4 tryout
th
• A title given at the book cover
• Followed by some images.
• The title will tell the story as the viewer flips through
the pages.

30. Final Photo Ebook
Target audience: Teenagers

31. Page 1

32. Page 2 & 3

33. Page 4 & 5

34. Page 6 & 7

35. Page 8 & 9

36. Page 10 & 11

37. Page 12 & 13

38. Page 14 & 15

39. Page 16 & 17

40. Page 18 (Last page)

41. Purpose of using different colors.
• Able to stimulate emotions and trigger memories.
• It will somehow give a fun and fresh feel because of
the bright colors used.

42. Images on each page…
• Before laying out in the Photo Ebook, all of the
images that are going to be included will be
grouped (eg, grouped according to destination)
accordingly.
• After grouping the images up accordingly, it will
somehow make the laying out a little simpler
• It will not give a messy feel to the viewers.

43. • The main topic is ‘Adventure at Beaches’.
• There are a few topics that are related to
‘Adventure at Beaches’ in one photo album.
• It can act as a digital photo book online, and also
can be viewed in PDF format.