Ordering the book pages

Putting the book in order has merged into putting the music tracks in order too.

The world of the book has consumed my head.

Accompanied by Let England Shake....the brilliant PJ Harvey's new diamond

Command :D

Yes, happy faces all round, Command D has been today's most useful instruction.....
In illustrator we are duplicating .........on and on and on and on ...
In photoshop we are deselecting....command D.
Illustrator, shift constrains, alt duplicates once, command D copy copy copy
Type (in illustrator) I want to manipulate you, so I must create outlines...nothing is gonna happen if I don't.

Type along a line... Pen tool , then path selection along top bar....it wont work if you don't

Exciting finale........
Photoshop..... Multiply gets rid of white
Screen gets rid of black
Then you use 'levels' to adjust and perhaps a gaussian blur.

Lap of honour.......

Journal is private, use text edit it's ace
Blog, public.....I'm coming over to stab you in the head.....oh, sorry did I actually type that, I thought no-one would read my blog.

Kitchen paper

So....off to the art school and I find new papers...

.Junior Art paper, Kitchen paper and think about layout paper and brown paper.

Junior Art paper could be the paper I have been looking for all along......

though recycled paperback paper available from Falkners could also be it!

Super A3 exists....what an upside down world! ..329mm x 483mm

Went to Eco-print 155 Waterloo Rd, Paul Youngs, to get test prints....v.helpful

The Xerox machine will do good prints but it puts a layer of oil on the print after the melted plastic powder...

The papers I tested somehow messed with the oil, we found oil marks on paper beyond printed area.

Suggestion is to try a machine that does all the same things apart from the oil part.

Apple are trying to own the letter 'i' .... sorry I digress.

So instructions to contact Crowes Printers, to use the Zeikon machine or the Bizhub.

Dry toner laser printer, which can print any length paper.

The last month of the book.......

Today is colour tests again. I get very excited about laser printer prints.
Not laser copier, laser printer (that mix-up involved a 30 minute fruitless walk into the depths of outer Norwich, I did experiment with marching songs thou, on the way home)....
Laser printer.....those wee bits of plastic powder heated up and squashed onto the page.
It seems to take to any type of paper including newsprint, and wall lining paper.
The colours are bright and exciting to yer eyeball. i have a new paper stock to try....Bible paper....
It's as thin as newsprint, but whiter and archival.....less acid content. Acid=decomposition+discolouration.....
which I don't mind, but the paper turning brittle and disintegrating is less good.
Will it work? I have a small quiet dream that the laser printer will magically take paper longer than A3....
The book is 25cmx25cm...so longer than A3 has become part of my living days these past 2 years.