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OK, OK. I HEAR READ YA. APPARENTLY, THERE IS A pent up desire for me to spill my guts, aka: photo book making "secrets". OK. OK.
However, believe me or not, doing so can not be accomplished in a single entry inasmuch as making a good quality photo book is the result of a chain of activities / steps, each one as important as all of the others. Hence, I use the word chain because a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Consequently, screw up one of the steps required to make a good quality photo book and the end result will suffer, perhaps fatally.
To be certain, none of the steps required to make good quality photo book would be considered to be rocket science. Nevertheless, in this entry I am going to list those steps and in doing so the list just might elicit a groan or two from some of you. However, don't panic or become discouraged. As we go along the path, each step will be explained in manner that will be easy to understand and, more importantly, easy to perform. In fact, the most important steps are basically the same steps a picture maker should be using to make a good quality picture....
THE STEPS:
1. using whatever picture making device / file format you prefer, make good quality image files for your planned photo book
2. process the files-on a reasonally calibrated (no special equipment required) screen-to create files which look like how you want the final pictures to look like. Save the files
3. make "proof" prints from the files as a comformation that the pictures do, in fact, look like you want them to look like. Additional processing may be required to get some files to that place.
4. convert the image files to the format your chosen photo book source requires - usually jpegs
5. upload all of your image files for the book to the photo book site and layout your book
6. when completed, hit "print" and wait for the book to show up.
WARNING .... have no doubt about it, each one of the above steps has multiple, critical sub-steps, all of which will be explained in upcoming entries.