My grandmother died yesterday.
I called my aunt and offered to do Grandma's biography, because I've got lots of material. I did hours of interviews with her two years ago, and photoshopped a bunch of old photos as well.
I know how to integrate images and text together in Word, so I can handle the pages.
Staples said if I set the pages up singly with the correct margins for a half-sheet (8 1/2 by 5 1/2, total; I'm currently thinking of half inch margins) they can turn the thing into a pamphlet; the sort where you staple it in the middle and the pages fold in half. They can give me a nice cardstock cover for not too much more.
I really want to do a nice job on this thing, since I don't want the sort of bio that typically makes people sound about as interesting as a bug pinned to a card.
I'll do the words (although I'll be asking for crit on another forum). But I'm ashamed to say that even though I'm an artist, I'm really blanking on the cover.
And I can't even get the image to post. I have a photo; I saved it as a jpeg, 376 by 400 pixels, and it won't post. I'm so incredibly frustrated over this, because I can hardly ask for help with formatting if I can't even post the image.
I've tried opening it in Word and acrobat, and copying and pasting. I even tried opening it in Paint, but I couldn't see any way to copy it there.
If anyone could give me some advice, I would be very grateful. I loved her, and I really want to do a good job on this.
Thank you.
I called my aunt and offered to do Grandma's biography, because I've got lots of material. I did hours of interviews with her two years ago, and photoshopped a bunch of old photos as well.
I know how to integrate images and text together in Word, so I can handle the pages.
Staples said if I set the pages up singly with the correct margins for a half-sheet (8 1/2 by 5 1/2, total; I'm currently thinking of half inch margins) they can turn the thing into a pamphlet; the sort where you staple it in the middle and the pages fold in half. They can give me a nice cardstock cover for not too much more.
I really want to do a nice job on this thing, since I don't want the sort of bio that typically makes people sound about as interesting as a bug pinned to a card.
I'll do the words (although I'll be asking for crit on another forum). But I'm ashamed to say that even though I'm an artist, I'm really blanking on the cover.
And I can't even get the image to post. I have a photo; I saved it as a jpeg, 376 by 400 pixels, and it won't post. I'm so incredibly frustrated over this, because I can hardly ask for help with formatting if I can't even post the image.
I've tried opening it in Word and acrobat, and copying and pasting. I even tried opening it in Paint, but I couldn't see any way to copy it there.
If anyone could give me some advice, I would be very grateful. I loved her, and I really want to do a good job on this.
Thank you.
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