Week 10: workshop

For this weeks class session, we were being shown how to make our own photo journal's to purchase online using the website lulu.com.

We were briefly talking about print on demand and how the online way of producing work has started to replace papers and books. Journals can now be purchased through digital websites such as Amazon rather than local book shops. This process cuts out the middle man in which individual copies of small numbers are printed to order. We discussed that this is because we have become used to this form of technology- a paperless office. This contrast past traditions from 1970s of photographers holding book fairs and publishing their own photography journals. We now live in an age of conceptual art in which we are more inclined to use our existing tools to create and sell work ourselves much quicker.

Our task was to use lulu.com to create a journal of 100 pages. We started off by finding 99 images that we had taken throughout the term and placing them in a folder. We were then told to follow these steps through the website to create the journal:

Open Photoshop:
STEP 1
1. Window
2. Action
3. Create new action
4. Name
5. Record
6. Crop image
7. Image/crop
8. Image/size/ width- 4/length 6-6.5
9. Image/ auto tone
10. Image/auto contrast
11. Stop recording
12.Close image

STEP 2
13. File
14. Script
15. Select Folder
16. JPEG/quality 12
17. Action/Pick previously created action
18: Enter

After completing these tasks we followed through lulu.com to choose the style of journal we wanted and if we carried on any further we would have created our journal and could sell it through amazon to potential buyers. I think it was really interesting to learn how easy it was to create and produce your own work to create a profit. Even though i am far from that stage of professionalism, i may one day come to use this website to sell my own work and ideas.