Page development 2

I have become more comfortable within the software Bookwright now allowing me to experiment further with designs of photographs and placements of texts. Photographs have become bigger on pages such as 12/13, along with making photographs the whole background image on pages such as 16-19 under 'culture.'
When making a photograph the whole background, it must pass the red dotted line in case of cut off. This is indicated on the pink borders - these borders at the edge of the pages are 'safe print areas' - the book may be printed on or near the red dotted line, therefore the border warning not to add any important information as it may be cut off. Making the photograph fill the whole page will ensure it gets to end, no matter where the page will then be printed -

In terms of text, I have changed the font from American Typewriter to Futura. Though not the final font, Futura is more aesthetically simplistic and leans towards what the final font would be. Experimenting with text has allowed me to expand my knowledge under fonts and has ensured I will apply these in the creative process of finalisation.
Content and photographic wise, both elements including writing and photography for the nature theme have been completed to my current desire, with phrases written by myself from personal feelings and experiences, along with inspirations by Connor Franta's 'Note to self' and Rupi Kaur's 'the sun and her flowers' as conducted in pre production of this project. Quotes using speech marks are taken from said inspirations, for example on page 17 - from film 'Call me by your name'

Moving into the book, I have added both portraiture photographs on location and in the photography studio as planned along with wording produced in production documentation of mind maps under the post 'free verse writing'

colour

In terms of design awareness under the culture theme, for aesthetic purposes, I had the desire to match the photograph with the background, this being a photograph that accompanied (e.g page 22/23) or a background colour.
As I developed within the book with this practical idea for this theme, I personally found that there were some problematic issues. The grid for the background colours is quite simple (labelled colour) without a visible gradient map depending on the colour chosen -


Preferably, I feel that this gradient colour picker is more visual and precise. Bookwright also does not have an eyedropper option, in exampled times where the page may be aesthetically pleasing if the background colour is the exact same colour as the background in a photograph on the page. I found this an issue on page 20/21 of my book under the 'culture' theme

An eyedropper tool on page 21 to accompany the colour on page 20 may have made the entire spread visually pleasing, though no planning beforehand for this issue as I was unfamiliar with the software,
I adapted to skills I hold within Photoshop, therefore importing the photograph on page 20 into Photoshop, using the eyedropper tool and painting a new page with the same colour.
Concluding, I will further plan ahead in Photoshop using the eyedropper tool, and ensure that I stay familiar with the tool if required for other pages.