That's really helpful. I design my own covers and self-publish books, mostly textbooks for my mom 'n' pop English school in Japan and find using Macbook Pages is good enough for the interior of A4-size textbooks; Vellum works fine for text-heavy books. Somehow, for covers, I make do with Pages, stock art from 123RF.com and Canva when I(m looking for a funky font for the title. I was trying out ai art, but copyright fears have put me off, so I'm looking for more out-of-copyright art and just drawing my own (it's textbooks mostly for kids, where the important things are the words and meanings, not the pics themselves)... but I'd never thought of having my own portable photo studio as you pictured -- basically a white box. That's excellent, I'll adopt that from now on for illustrations and so on. Thank you.
Fabulous thrift store find, I have been wanting one of those cabinets for prints. My dream for ephemera and collage bits is an old library card catalog.
Thanks for sharing this!!
That was such a cool peek into the trade!
Insightful article about the tools of your trade. Rather enjoyable to read and see.
I had wondered if the flat file had found its space in your new room…it all looks great and I wish you many pleasant and productive hours in there 😊
Thank you! It fits this space much better. I hope I never have to move that thing ever again, haha
I am going to have to figure out how to add a net thing like that under my standing desk…
Do it! It’s great.
That's really helpful. I design my own covers and self-publish books, mostly textbooks for my mom 'n' pop English school in Japan and find using Macbook Pages is good enough for the interior of A4-size textbooks; Vellum works fine for text-heavy books. Somehow, for covers, I make do with Pages, stock art from 123RF.com and Canva when I(m looking for a funky font for the title. I was trying out ai art, but copyright fears have put me off, so I'm looking for more out-of-copyright art and just drawing my own (it's textbooks mostly for kids, where the important things are the words and meanings, not the pics themselves)... but I'd never thought of having my own portable photo studio as you pictured -- basically a white box. That's excellent, I'll adopt that from now on for illustrations and so on. Thank you.
Fabulous thrift store find, I have been wanting one of those cabinets for prints. My dream for ephemera and collage bits is an old library card catalog.
You've inspired me to do a post of my own!