Catching errors

One of the things I learned as an Indie writer was that changing the medium in which I read my writing makes the errors literally leap off the page. For example, going from a Word document to an epub, or vice versa. Suddenly, my brain has to read what’s actually written instead of what I expect to see.

And the same thing applies to tweaking graphics. The pic below is version 7, and I really thought I’d finally nailed it. Nope:

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None of the errors I’ve highlighted are ‘big’ errors, but I literally didn’t see them while I was working on the graphic in Corel. The instant I exported the graphic and set it as my desktop…there they were, the errors I was not expecting to see.

I suspect that people who don’t work on graphics will probably shrug and go…’you can hardly see them!’ And that is true, the errors are small, but I bet a few people would notice, because those errors are like typos in a book. They may be small, and most people may not notice them, but some readers will, and Indies cannot afford to be judged ‘inferior’ to traditionally published authors.

So yes, those small imperfections do matter.

And therein ends today’s gripe. Have a great weekend,
Meeks