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: Is it OK to layout landscape images vertically in a book? I am currently laying out a book (poetry). There are a few images to be placed at various points throughout the text. Most of these

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I am currently laying out a book (poetry). There are a few images to be placed at various points throughout the text. Most of these are portrait orientation. For various reasons it is necessary for each image to appear alone on its own page without any other element.

Is it acceptable to lay these images out vertically (taking up a full page for each one) so that the reader has to turn the book 90 degrees to view them? If I don't do this and lay them out in their natural orientation I am worried that a) they will be too small, and b) they will look a bit lost with too much white space above and below them.

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@Yeniel278

While changing orientation isn't unheard of (indeed, sometimes it can be used to striking affect), it's worth pointing out the full range of options available to you, obvious though they may be:


Crop the image to a portrait format.
Insert it as a landscape image despite the white space: too much white space is rarely an issue in an aesthetic sense.
Insert the image across a double page spread.
Change the orientation of the whole book: a pain if you've already started setting it out, but if you have a lot of landscape images it is something to consider.
Change the orientation of that one image: as you've already mentioned.
Add a gatefold page: an expensive solution, but a solution nonetheless. This does open up the possibility of different stocks, which is always interesting.


Are any of these options acceptable? That's really between you, the author and the end client.

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