Vellum overlay transforms photos, adds texture

In a mostly digital world, we rarely get a sense of ‘touch’ along with the images we view, but for printed materials, paper stocks add another level of sensory experience.

Layering and translucency are tools of the trade for most photographers, so when the opportunity arose to use a translucent vellum as the cover stock of White Packert Photography’s Similar Differences booklet, it was a natural choice with added benefit.

The vellum creates an interactive and transformative image overlap between two of Sharon White’s images, creating a new, third image when the cover is closed, and then separated again as the viewer opens the booklet. The tactile texture, or ‘tooth’, of the vellum helps celebrate the opening of the booklet, whose inner pages are crisp, bright, and smooth in contrast.