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Simple Survey: Black line of no?
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Just curious as to what some of you prefer, as regards books with images placed on spacious white pages, a simple thin black border or none at all?
Cheers in advance…
Paulyman
If interested, new edition of my latest book.
The question pertains to my next project.
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Paul Treacy
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Fri Jun 20 21:27:52 UTC 2008
(ed. Jun 22 2008)
New York City,
United States
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Paul…Personally I feel that the black line thing was for B&W pics to hold in bleeding edges and as an indicator of printing the full frame . For color,...no way, no need. Would look arty and pretentious. Whatever! See ya around. G.
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Speaking only for my stupid projects, depends on the project. Agree with Gregory: black border is a full frame convention.
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same with sp and gs. the black line was there because the enlarger’s mount was just slightly larger then the negative and so included the space just beyond the image. hence full frame printing…
i have also seen it used with trannie and colour neg printing when the whole neg without cropping was printed. j
ps sp canoscan is up and running again… thanks for your help.
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Typography and design is all about white space. Generous white space around images and text. If the black frame goes with the design, great. If it doesn’t: don’t do it.
Your layout works best without any borders. Perhaps it is, as Gregory and Stupid points out, a convention for BW-pictures.
Another ting: Leave the gutter alone ;-)
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No gutters this time. No no no. Uck!
That’s the only thing that bugs me about Christopher Morris’ My America book, the damn gutters.
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The picture should snap off the page with out the border. If it’s mediocre printing or you’re a mediocre printer, then the black border is helpful. Which explains why I use it occasionally.
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