Book of Photographic Images

In the spring, I will be designing a book of photographic images; perhaps as many as 400. There will be one image on each page and limited if any text. I would like to made an index of the images, but will probably use page number; not sure yet.
I designed a small book of 16 pages and I am sure there is a better workflow than what I used. I just used one document. For the big book, I plan to use four documents; the book will probably be divided by seasons.
Here is my set-up at this point, with limited experience with ID: The image files are accessed through Lightroom, then to photoshop for resizing and perhaps some editing, then put into a folder and then 'placed' in InDesign.
No doubt that is oversimplified, so if anyone has suggestions and ideas, please tell me before I get too far down the path and then wish I'd done something different.
vasi

So far that seems right to me, but books are really very small part of what I do.
I think, though, that you'll have problems with indexing, or a TOC which I would think you'd want, without text, since those are text-based functions. You can put the text on a non-printing layer if you don't want it to show up in your printed book, but it will still be accessible to indexing and TOC.
Peter

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I experienced another side effect to this 'feature', and in figuring it out, I think I have the answer to your question. The quick answer is to unstack everything, or create new versions. If you want to understand what's going on, and learn the third way, read on...
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Running MacOS X 10.8.5, Aperture 3.4.4
I have the following workflow for photobooks creation (a custom photobook):
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Hi
Running MacOS X 10.8.5, Aperture 3.4.4
I have the following workflow for photobooks creation (a custom photobook):
0) Prepare an album with photos I'd like to create my book from.
For 99% of my photos I have TIFF files as masters. Not RAW files.
I use managed library.
1) Create a book layout (place images, select different crop factors for frames, etc)
2) Looking at specific page adjust photos using Aperture adjustments (exposure, color balance) to make images to looks similar on the page
3) A the final step, apply some adjustments from external plugins.
Here I have the question from subject:
* The Aperture sends the whole file to plugin (i.e. some of Nik collection plugins, but it might be a different plugin)
* But on my photo book page I have a different crop factor (i.e. TIFF master is 2:3, on photo book page I frame it to 1:2)
* As the result some of the adjustments I did in external plugin are not visible on the photobook page, which produces a different visual effect, which I don't want.
Currently, to workaround this, I have to manually apply the same crop factor to image version, then make a version copy, open the plugin. Only after these steps Aperture will send the desired crop factor to external plugin.
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As the result, I'd like the crop factor from photo frame from Aperture custom book to be applied to image version.
Any ideas on scripts/external programs are welcome.
Thank you!

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At the photography club he was asked to prepare an image for projection - 72dpi 720x1024...
If the image is for projection then the only specification he has to worry about is the dimension of the image, 1024 x 720. He just needs to crop/resize the image in Photoshop to 1024 x 720 pixels and save a copy. DPI does not come into play until you print an image. See The Myth of DPI .
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Hi Catherine,
I was aware of what you had asked for.
I was starting with my memories of what used to work in iChat.
Excuse the width of this pic But in the "Recents" section I chose the Union Flag and changed it to that instead of my regular Sig pic.
Uploaded with Skitch!
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Before ordering your book preview it using this method - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040 - and save the resulting PDF for reference - the delivered book will match it.
and order
Apples comments on this are here
Of the negative comments posted here nearly all of them were from people who spend lots of time and energy adjusting photos trying to second guess the printing process and failing to do so - Apple does have an unconditional sastisfaction guarentee - do it the simple way - less is more in this case
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