My wife takes a lot of photos with her iPhone. She texts one photo each morning to a small group of friends as a way of checking in. We decided to take some of these photos and create a small color book, called Good i, a take off on the phrase "good eye" that is often applied to artists and photographers who know just how to frame an image.
We self published the book in color with KDP (Amazon, formerly CreateSpace). The color was surprisingly good, though the price per copy, $20, is a bit steep for such a small book (96 pages). We previewed the color cover both in matte and gloss and went with glossy. The matte looks great but tends to smudge if you rub the cover against anything. And there is only one choice of text paper. It's bright white but there is a little show through. A heavier of coated text paper would have been preferable.
We made the photos small to represent the size they appear in a smart phone.
All and all it was a fun project and we plan to do more.
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