To continue my rave on The Junction earlier in the year about image slicing and dicing, here are a few thoughts about designing a pressbook with particular consideration to keeping your mind (and your clients' heads) out of the gutter! Photojunction makes designing a Queensberry album very easy and FAST. But while the layouts look very similar on-screen between albums and press books - in reality these two products are vastly different. When you're working on screen it's really easy to forget that a press book is, well, a book, and the pages don't lie flat. Queensberry press books (like most other photographic books) are perfect bound, which means that a small amount of the inner side of each page is obscured in the gutter, or spine, of the book. It's not unusual (common to many high quality books and magazines) but it is an important factor to consider when you're designing. Currently Photojunction has general 'photosafe' guides on Pressbooks, but unfortunately there isn't an easy answer as to how much of a gutter to leave in any given book. The number of pages in the book, thickness of the paper stock and the size of the book are some of the factors that determine exactly how much of the page is obscured. Photojunction takes care of most of the technical bits, but book designers train for years in the art of layout design, so here are a few gutter-minded tips about designing press book layouts. 1. Visually allow more white space for the inner margins of the page. Remember the tighter you make the white space, the easier it is to see any small discrepancies. 2. If you are wanting to have an image bleed into the gutter - make sure that there isn't any critical information that could be obscured, like heads, hands or text. 3. If you're using a Panoramic image, make sure there's plenty of space either side of the gutter so it doesn't look like your subject is 'sinking' into the centre of the book. I hope this helps! Anna