Handmade Flipbook

Step 5 Cut out your photos

I used a nice cutter to trim each photo to the correct size. Notice here that I left the left black border and number. The number is good in case the photos are printed out of order (they were) or if you drop the stack (I did). The black border will be covered by a leather binding in a later step.

A few thoughts here:

1. I might have been able to fit 2 images to a 4x6" photo - saving money but the images would have been slightly smaller. Also, they would have needed to have been rotated 90 degrees and that wouldn't have left much border which will be needed for drilling later. Keep reading and I think this will begin to make sense...

2. See where I placed the number? Bad idea. Move it down to the middle of the left black border. This way you won't make the mistake I did which is drilling through the numbers. If you wrote the number on the back of each image like I suggested earlier, this will never be a problem.

3. Finally, the more accurate you can be with your trimming - ESPECIALLY on the right edge - the better. You want this stack to not only be as square as possible, but you want that right edge to be cut consistently so the animation is fluid.