Build a hardback from your own season. Drop in the captures, the swims and the nights, choose a CYP-designed template, and we print it in the UK on proper stock. No adverts, no stock shots. Nothing between the covers you didn't live.
You already shoot the book. The rolling fish at first light, the mat shot by head torch, the swim you watched all week before it went. It's all on your phone, scattered among a thousand other pictures. Print pulls it together, runs it big on proper paper, and binds it into something you'll still be opening in twenty years.
PHOTOGRAPHY · CYPOGRAPHY · SUMMER 2026
Three templates, three different books. One built for torchlight and black pages, one for big clean spreads you flick through on a Sunday, one for the angler who logs every bite. All three run the full book, cover to back, and you can switch at any point without losing a thing.
The CYP look on paper. Full black stock, white condensed headers, a single green hairline, mono captions. Photos run full-bleed with a filmic grain. Built for the fish that came in the dark: head-torch mat shots, dawn mist, the receiver at 3am.
Bone silk paper, a serif body in two columns, one photo per spread run to the edge. For the long sessions and the long reads: a season on one pit, a campaign for one fish, told properly. A single red rule is the only colour that isn't yours.
A session diary on a faint scale-pattern stock. Every capture gets a card: weight, venue, swim, rig, bait, wind, pressure, moon phase, water temperature. Stamped times, ruled captions, and a season record at the back for the angler who keeps the numbers.
Not a photo-book wizard. A proper page layout studio: rulers, bleed and safe areas, snapping, layers, typography, image grading for night shots and flat grey days, full history. This is a taster; the full studio with your own photos, saved books and press PDFs is at /app. Drag things. Resize them. Drop a photo from Assets onto a frame. Double-click text to edit it. Press ⌘Z.
IMAGES
RUN BIG.
The parts marked live work in the mock above. The rest is the build list, all of it standard in the engine we're reusing or a known quantity.
Millimetre rulers, 3mm bleed, 10mm safe area, six-column grid, centre guides. Toggle each from the view bar.
Eight-handle resize, snapping to page edges, centre and safe area, align and distribute, bring forward and send back.
Every element on both pages, with hide and lock. Select from the list or on the page.
Named history steps. Jump to any point. ⌘Z and ⇧⌘Z as you'd expect.
Five faces, size, tracking, leading, case, alignment, swatches and template-aware paragraph styles.
Exposure, contrast, saturation, warmth, black and white, grain, vignette. Presets tuned for night shots and gravel pits.
Drop onto a frame to swap, onto the page to add. Photos arrive sorted by capture time, auto-split into sessions.
Change template and your photos, captions and captures re-flow into the new design system.
Open the preview at any point and page through every spread so far, with the one you're editing in place. Real page turns, real thumbnails.
Save any page as a master. Apply it across a session or the whole book. Edit the master, every page follows.
Long reads thread from page to page. Spell-check, find and replace, smart quotes, hyphenation.
Two people on the same book at once. Share links for photo drops. Comments pinned to the page.
Low-res and out-of-safe warnings, font embedding, CMYK soft proof, bleed and crop marks, press PDF and a digital flip-book.
Straight from your phone or camera. Sorted into sessions by the date they were taken. Anything too small to print at full page gets flagged before you order.
Dark Mirror, Linear or Fully Scaled. Switch any time. Your photos, captions and captures carry over.
Write the captions on the page, pan and grade the shots, add a capture card with the weight, swim, rig and conditions. Or accept the layout and go.
Hardback, lay-flat, UK press. Proof it on screen, pay, and it turns up at the door. Order a second copy for the mate who did the netting.
The best shot of your fish is usually on someone else's phone. Send one link and whoever has it can drop their photos straight into your book, no account needed, tagged with their name. You decide what makes the page.
"I always wanted it to be a coffee table format. A place for images, stories and thoughts to have a permanent home on your shelf."
| Format | A4 landscape, 297 × 210 mm, hardback with printed wrap cover |
| Binding | Section-sewn, lay-flat so spreads open fully |
| Pages | From 40 to 200, in steps of 4. The studio shows the running count. |
| Paper | 170gsm silk inside. Dark Mirror prints on the same stock with full black coverage. |
| Photos | Resized to 300dpi at full page. Minimum 1600px long edge for a full page, flagged live. |
| Press | UK, carbon-neutral printer. Three-week turnaround from order. |
| Extras | Spine text, dedication page, foreword, season record table, QR to the digital copy |
Spec matches the premium carp print market: no adverts, images run big, sustainable UK print. Built on a print pipeline already producing hardbacks.
packages/book). Same file on screen and at the press.BookStudio.tsx.custom_books and book_orders tables, Stripe checkout, staff order queue with press PDF, owner-folder storage RLS.Theme per template (palette, fonts, textures, paragraph styles, page masters). Three themes: Dark Mirror, Linear, Fully Scaled.