Progress of my children's book

Here I have tested with my underwater images and looking at way I can represent the text. 

The bottom spread holds more luminosity within it. 

I will need to stick to white text throughout the book though.

Again I am playing with the background image and I am finding the more up close the better as you concentrate on the text even better.

I will have to sort out the text below, there is too much and looks too bulky.

I like this layout still but don’t know how I can position it with the full bled images
However the text looks awkward in the corner. 







The bottom one instantly, I like how illuminated it looks and how Dylan almost touches it.




The top image is looking really promising, however I need to be aware of the black changes within the spread, will have a look at colour correcting it and sorting out the text. 




This layout looks a lot mor stronger, the staged family shot just looked too miserable and stood out like a soar thumb. I will need to look at changing the text to white with a different image





This works, however I think I need to put the butcher image on top instead as it shows more colour and information about red and white meat. 




This gives a clear and funny approach to the question, however I do not think the bottom image on the right is strong enough as its out of focus and exposure.




I think this layout is looking really strong, I prefer the bottom spread as it gets rid of that cloud and concentrates o the blue sky






Here I am matching the colour on photoshop with the bubble sequence. This is to give the black a natural flow through the spread,
When doing this, it lost its vibrance, I will have to look at another way. 





My book will be sectioned into fours, 3 sections will have 4 double page spreads and the last section will have 2 double page spreads

Here is how I have imposition  my book using the scrap pieces of paper. I have printed it out in black and white and it all seems to fit together nicely. 

Here is a test strip of the images before I start printing, I save my settings on the printer, to double sided paper matte, with slow printing so it wont smudge when coming out. 

Once printed, I place the scrap paper on top to understand what pages need to be printed and were. Its important that when printing, you print every other page first then come back to printing on the back, otherwise it will smudge. 








Once all printed, the booklets are folded using a bone, ruler, blue mounting spread and “scotch” paper to not get the pages dirty. 



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I arrive in Lewes
and everything is good to go with the book.
For the front cover I pick a bright pasty blue, that fits in with the first question, why is the sky blue?
I then give in my pdf of the question mark that looks like this. It will be varnished, so its easy to see.