Photo Album--NEED HELP--10D

[ijohnson]

Just to keep it on topic, I have a 10D and a variety of lenses, and have been shooting pictures at my English Language School here in South Korea for about 10 months. Kids are such great subject matter but they require good equipment and a lot of talent to get good candids. These little guys are constantly moving. It would be easier to photograph a dragonfly in flight.

Anyway, I have to do the school yearbook in digital form for the school for modest pay, but I have no idea where to start. I will have to display about 600 shots in about 15 categories. I'm sure I will have to resize, thumbnail and design a nice product.

Can anyone help me? I don't have a lot of time or a lot of resources to work with. I also have a Mac. Yikes.

Sincerely,
Hoping I can be saved without too much trial and error

[Alexia]

Adobe InDesign(Successor to PageMaker) and Quark Express come to mind. I prefer Adobe after using it for a while.

[SnJPhoto]

When you say you have to do the yearbook in digital form are you saying in digital images that will be printed in a paper book at publication time or are you creating a electronic yearbook in the form of a web page or some form of slide show media? If its simply a matter of shooting digital and then publishing paper, you have a straight forward media management issue. There are several tools for this, my choice is iView Media Pro, but there are others. If you are saying you are publishing a digitial book, then you have a bigger issue. If the book takes the form of a web presence, there are tons of options. If this is where your going, check with a few website developers and check on different content management tools that they may implement. This is such a large area, there really is no simple answer.

Scott

[tim]

JAlbum (http://www.jalbum.net) does a great job of online galleries, and it's free. Even if you were resizing for print you could use it to do some of the work for you.

Personally i'd probably use photoshop and write an action for everything except the crop step, and maybe even for that too if the shot's set up well enough.

[Persian-Rice]

Quark XPress is your best bet, as far as I know, it is recognized as the "standard" for layout an printing among any/most professional printing company.

Mind you, it ain't cheap (around $1100) and has its learning curve. I have a friend who owns a big printing company who gave me a co-op placement when I was in high-school, all the designers submitted in Quark. As far as I know all competition used the same system as well.

[ijohnson]

When you say you have to do the yearbook in digital form are you saying in digital images that will be printed in a paper book at publication time or are you creating a electronic yearbook in the form of a web page or some form of slide show media? If its simply a matter of shooting digital and then publishing paper, you have a straight forward media management issue. There are several tools for this, my choice is iView Media Pro, but there are others. If you are saying you are publishing a digitial book, then you have a bigger issue. If the book takes the form of a web presence, there are tons of options. If this is where your going, check with a few website developers and check on different content management tools that they may implement. This is such a large area, there really is no simple answer.

Scott

Yeah. more important information. The yearbook will all be on CD. I have quite a bit of experience making web pages, but I would prefer something even easier than that. It will not be published. got to get to class.

[tim]

Yeah. more important information. The yearbook will all be on CD. I have quite a bit of experience making web pages, but I would prefer something even easier than that. It will not be published. got to get to class.

If you're happy to have them as web pages on the CD, JAlbum will do a great job. Just make sure you shoot them right (ie framed correctly, correct white ballance), put them in a reasonable folder structure (perhaps by class), point JAlbum at it and let it go! You can put each students name under the pic if you want, and it generates thumbnails and can resize photos if you want it to.

[shortie]

As Tim Mentioned


JAlbum is really go for this type of stuff - here is an example of what is possible

This is one of my favorite designs as to me it is nice and clean

http://www.malpas.com/b-w-col-album/index.html

Cheers

Shortie