A Photo Book of the collection - who made one ?

[Capt. R]

Johan, I have a couple photo books for my DDR collection. I have one for uniforms and one for DDR Musik. Some of photos of your collection room with kettle drums, fahnenspitze, banners, are in my musik book! I used snapfish and just printed pics and then put them into a photo album but snapfish offers an option to make a book - very affordable!

[GREENEDUDLEY]

I always dreamed of making my own book. That is why I started collecting East German military items. Now I can make my dream come true and justify to my wife why 3 rooms are full of uniforms and equipment. So it might just be one book.

This might help with the legal part of ownership.

http://blurb.custhelp.com/app/answer...ights/r_id/166

[Dallasfan]

I always dreamed of making my own book. That is why I started collecting East German military items. Now I can make my dream come true and justify to my wife why 3 rooms are full of uniforms and equipment. So it might just be one book.

This might help with the legal part of ownership.

http://blurb.custhelp.com/app/answer...ights/r_id/166

Hi Dudley

Thanks for the legal info , I think this says it all .
I think most of the work of making a book like that , is to take good photos of the collection .
I wil be making one in a few months , starting with my flags .

Johan, I have a couple photo books for my DDR collection. I have one for uniforms and one for DDR Musik. Some of photos of your collection room with kettle drums, fahnenspitze, banners, are in my musik book! I used snapfish and just printed pics and then put them into a photo album but snapfish offers an option to make a book - very affordable!

Hi Don

Can you show some photos ?



Regards , Johan

[grossmacht]

The pricing with the blurb service seems surprisingly affordable. I've had it in my head to do something similar with my collection. The thought of a service never really crossed my mind. I've got some experience with ms publisher as far as layouts...adobe in design is a much nicer desktop publishing software title...both of which are a bit pricey. If you are looking to go the desktop publishing route...http://www.scribus.net/ is an open source solution for multiple platforms and is FREE. Rather than committing to purchase an printed copy from an online source, Tinkering with it to get the basic idea of how you want you book to look costs nothing. I've got a local print shop which does great work and can even bind. He charges .25 USD per color copied page (counts as well for prints from a file) and binding is affordable.
After going through my own stress with getting my book (Dirty German: everything from What's up to F*%# off!) I've shelved other projects until I've had a chance to recover...
just a thought. Of course, please do share what the outcome is...should you decide to go it alone and do the DIY approach, or go online.
-d

[DaveM]

photo references

Are handy for what you have and what has moved thru your hands....

like the words in My Way:

"Regrets I've had a few......"