Mr Perceptive
Perceptive Member
(Now I’ve stolen this idea from another forum, but it worked fantastically well, and was a great photographic project)
Got a photography project on the go?
Got a set of photos that tell a story?
Why not publish them in a Zine and share with a group of PFMers
This is a thread to get people printing and publishing their work, what you produce and how is up to you.
The group that I was in published a diverse collection of zines, and not only was it a lot of fun to make a zine (and quite satisfying seeing your images in a booklet), but it was also great to receive zines through the post from the other group members. Our complete collection below:-
What is a Zine? A zine is a short, small format magazine, generally it is a small circulation, self-published work. For this PFM challenge it is a collection of your photos edited together into a magazine or small booklet. Self-published does not necessarily mean self-printed, you can print yourself or you can send your work off to a printing service. For this group a zine isn't just an album or portfolio of your favourite photos or pictures of your family, the aim is to put together a booklet with images that are the product of a project or shot as a coherent set.
The idea of this challenge is that you sign up here and commit to producing a zine and posting it to all the other people in this zine group, everyone has to cover their own printing and postage costs and in return gets a fantastic zine collection from the other members of the group. The target date for posting out your zines is Saturday 13th July 2020 with Saturday the 20th June 2020 as a last date for people to commit which gives 3 weeks for printing etc.
It is recommended that your zine be around A5 paper size and contain around 12-16 pages. Remember that you have to print and post it so you might want to check postage costs for various sizes. It's also worth pointing out that you are going to have to share your address via PM with the other PFM members so that they can post their zines to you.
Sign-up, chat, banter, progress reports, questions and queries can all be posted in this thread.
You don't need to decide right now, but I can already envisage some great zines from forum members as many of you have already shown images over a period of time in the PAW threads that could be put together as a body of work.
Making a zine:-
Taking the photos is the easy part! Curating them into a collection is much more challenging, what to keep, what to discard, are they up to the same standard, do I need to re-shoot any of them?
Then there are the zine decisions:-
My first monochrome zine had the images edited in Lightroom and exported as JPGs, I then built the Zine within Microsoft Word, printed as a PDF and uploaded to the printers site. I did a draft proof run of a single zine print (cost about a fiver), checked that, before getting 10 copies printed (cost about £15). Then with the cost of envelopes and postage, the whole project cost about £27.
I was now hooked, I immediately started on a second zine, shot the images over a period of 2 weeks, and yesterday laid out the first pass, and uploaded a trial zine to a printer, a different printer this time who makes a trial 16 page colour zine and sends it back to you for less than £2.
For the colour zine, I invested in Affinity Publisher (currently on offer at £25), as this will work in CMYK. I processed the images in Lightroom, then converted them in photoshop to CMYK, before building a CMYK zine in Affinity Publisher. This has then been exported as a PDF and uploaded to the printer. If I decide to print this zine, then printing on 170gsm silk paper, with a 300gsm laminated cover will cost about £25 for 10 copies, but the more copies the cheaper it becomes (at 50 copies they become less than a pound each)
Some helpful links
Printers
www.doxdirect.com
www.mixam.com
Youtube, there are hundreds of zine videos, but these are some I used.
Got a photography project on the go?
Got a set of photos that tell a story?
Why not publish them in a Zine and share with a group of PFMers
This is a thread to get people printing and publishing their work, what you produce and how is up to you.
The group that I was in published a diverse collection of zines, and not only was it a lot of fun to make a zine (and quite satisfying seeing your images in a booklet), but it was also great to receive zines through the post from the other group members. Our complete collection below:-
What is a Zine? A zine is a short, small format magazine, generally it is a small circulation, self-published work. For this PFM challenge it is a collection of your photos edited together into a magazine or small booklet. Self-published does not necessarily mean self-printed, you can print yourself or you can send your work off to a printing service. For this group a zine isn't just an album or portfolio of your favourite photos or pictures of your family, the aim is to put together a booklet with images that are the product of a project or shot as a coherent set.
The idea of this challenge is that you sign up here and commit to producing a zine and posting it to all the other people in this zine group, everyone has to cover their own printing and postage costs and in return gets a fantastic zine collection from the other members of the group. The target date for posting out your zines is Saturday 13th July 2020 with Saturday the 20th June 2020 as a last date for people to commit which gives 3 weeks for printing etc.
It is recommended that your zine be around A5 paper size and contain around 12-16 pages. Remember that you have to print and post it so you might want to check postage costs for various sizes. It's also worth pointing out that you are going to have to share your address via PM with the other PFM members so that they can post their zines to you.
Sign-up, chat, banter, progress reports, questions and queries can all be posted in this thread.
You don't need to decide right now, but I can already envisage some great zines from forum members as many of you have already shown images over a period of time in the PAW threads that could be put together as a body of work.
Making a zine:-
Taking the photos is the easy part! Curating them into a collection is much more challenging, what to keep, what to discard, are they up to the same standard, do I need to re-shoot any of them?
Then there are the zine decisions:-
- How big should my zine be?
- What format, landscape/portrait format, colour or mono or both?
- How much text?
- Then the layout, one image per page?
- Which images look good opposite each other on a spread?
My first monochrome zine had the images edited in Lightroom and exported as JPGs, I then built the Zine within Microsoft Word, printed as a PDF and uploaded to the printers site. I did a draft proof run of a single zine print (cost about a fiver), checked that, before getting 10 copies printed (cost about £15). Then with the cost of envelopes and postage, the whole project cost about £27.
I was now hooked, I immediately started on a second zine, shot the images over a period of 2 weeks, and yesterday laid out the first pass, and uploaded a trial zine to a printer, a different printer this time who makes a trial 16 page colour zine and sends it back to you for less than £2.
For the colour zine, I invested in Affinity Publisher (currently on offer at £25), as this will work in CMYK. I processed the images in Lightroom, then converted them in photoshop to CMYK, before building a CMYK zine in Affinity Publisher. This has then been exported as a PDF and uploaded to the printer. If I decide to print this zine, then printing on 170gsm silk paper, with a 300gsm laminated cover will cost about £25 for 10 copies, but the more copies the cheaper it becomes (at 50 copies they become less than a pound each)
Some helpful links
Printers
www.doxdirect.com
www.mixam.com
Youtube, there are hundreds of zine videos, but these are some I used.
