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joas
873 days ago
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How to make Flush / Coffee table book
Hello everyone,
Can you please advice on how to make a Flush Photo Album or Coffee Table book.
Thank you very much,
joas
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alicia954
873 days ago
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I think a flush photo album is like the type you usually get as your wedding album?
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joas
873 days ago
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Hi Chuck,
Thank you for the links. What I am looking for is if anybody here in our forum knows how to do it.... i.e at home
Flush album; Alicia is right it is one of those big books leather bound that usually you get for wedding album (nowadays). From the Lab Printers folks they call them "Flush Printing"
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alicia954
873 days ago
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Do you already have the pictures printed, or are you going to be using digital images?
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joas
873 days ago
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I don't have printed images yet. I am still working on them and i'm kinda slow since i'm still learning how to use photoshop and i wanted to do backgrounds i don't know how either.
I tried mypublisher.com i am not satisfied on their resolutions. I was wondering if I can just print my photos to my inkjet double sided and then bind them. The problem is how to make a book hard cover and what binding machine i will buy.
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greentheor
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872 days ago
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there are a lot of people/places online that can teach you how to bind your own books.
I happen to be one of them 
you can make a hardcover book relatively easily.. just go to a craft/art store and buy some davey board and some book cloth to cover the davey board. You can cut DB with xacto blades or box cutters, and measure out your covers and spine to be 1/8-1/4" larger than your paper on each side that hangs over.. and.. argh, Okay.. it's complicated. It's doable, but complicated..
might want to just look up bookbinding resources online - I know there are websites and communities of bookbinders that could probably teach you better than I could
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joas
872 days ago
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Thanks, i will try your first recommendation by going to craft store. And start from there. Hopefully i can do leather cover as well.
thank you very much,
joas
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rekanize
872 days ago
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There are many great books out there on book binding... It will be much cooler than anything you could pay for if you take your time, and do it by hand... just make sure you're not skimping on printing costs, though, if you want it to last.
P.S. I wouldn't try binding with leather as a first foray into binding... Maybe try a few books without leather first, just to get comfy with the process.
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genevieve1
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872 days ago
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Hi ,I am new here but have been learning how to make books during the last 12 months.
A good book is Cover to Cover by Shereen LaPlantz.
There are also two great yahoo groups.
Bookart and handmade books
handmadebooks@yahoogroups.com
book-arts@yahoogroups.com
The people in these groups are really helpful and some people are professional book makers.
Good luck , and i agree, leave the leather cover until you master a book cloth cover. But it is a great skill to learn and addictive.
Genevieve
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digiscrapp
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872 days ago
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I work with a company that prints and binds customized hardcover books in high resolution prints, in a variety of sizes (yes, you can even get a flush album and leather covers!) You can see my latest book, a copy of a travel Journal, here:
http://web.mac.com/riceramblz/iWeb/
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joas
872 days ago
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Rekanize,
Thank you for the info. I do agree with you and i am not looking into skipping the good prints and this is one of the main reason why i want to do it my own so that i can print my photos at high res. I tried Mypublisher books the resolutions is not good.
Genevieve1,
I will look into those links that you provided thank you very much..... and if you don't mind i will ask you for a pointers on how to make books/photobooks.
Digiscrapp,
Thank you for the info. I will defenitely check your site.
all,
THank you very much for all the response this is a great forum/site and people are so nice. thank you so much. If anyone else know how, please keep the thread goin i am sure some of our members here are might be looking into making photobooks.
thank you very much.... joas
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ansel
253 days ago
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Hey try http://www.smilebooks.com - it's software is easy-to-use and helps you create your photo book with variety of background and color options.
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EmmaK
204 days ago
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Picaboo lets you design and publish a coffee table size book (or smaller) with a 'lay flat' binding and they have a special 'Flush Mount' book which is really beautiful with a leather cover and gilt page edges. Its a great product for weddings and special occasions (The Flush Mount book is not cheap, but some of their other styles are great value). Check out this review of their service: http://www.makeyourphotobook.com/photo- … oo-review/
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