How Many Photos Can Fit on Each Page?
OK, is this a trick question? In reality, except for aesthetic reasons and the possibility of it being cost prohibitive, there is not an exact limit to the number of photos that can fit on one page. But, if we place 100 postage-stamp-sized photos on a page, who is going to want to try and look at them? Ideally, photos should be sized according to significance and beauty. Really good photos shouldn’t necessarily have to share a page with another photo. In fact, some photos command panoramic treatment and will actually span two pages in a book. Some photos are used as backgrounds (backdrops) with other photos are placed on top of them. Some are used both as backgrounds and primary images. Sometimes a larger image will be surrounded by smaller images and sometimes several images of equal size will share a page. Or a page might have multiple images all in different sizes. That is something that we, as book designers, view as part of the challenge of building each book. And it’s something t
