A Few Thoughts on Image Disparity
So, just a few thoughts on something I'm not sure a lot of people think about until they run smack into it and potentially have to wrestle with it... image disparity.
Self-publishing, for me anyway, was largely a crash course that I felt my way through as the process developed. I really had no idea what I was getting into, all the steps and decisions and hiccups along the way until I was actually holding my book in my excited little hands.
One of the things I never gave a thought to but became important as time progressed is image disparity between a computer image and the actual print copy of the cover of a book.
After working with my cover designer from the self-publishing house I contracted with through many revisions and adjustments, I sat back on my couch and grinned tremendously. I was looking at the finished product of my book cover, the finished image on my computer. It was perfect... all the colors, the saturation, the contrast, the brightness, the color balance, the hue. It was exactly what I was hoping and looking for.
Imagine my surprise when I received the print copy to review and the cover wasn't the same. The colors were much more intense, saturated, too vibrant... it was not at all what was displayed on my computer screen. Obviously, adjustments had to be made.
And they were but, in today's modern, long distance, email world it took time to get everything right. And I can't help but wonder sometimes that if I had been knowledgeable enough to begin with, been aware of image disparity and attempted to compensate for it initially, then some time and hassle could have been avoided.
So, for anyone out there who might be embarking upon the wondrous but often confusing world of self-publishing and who is not aware of this little but important issue, keep it in mind. You might save yourself a little headache along the way.
Goodnight world.
Self-publishing, for me anyway, was largely a crash course that I felt my way through as the process developed. I really had no idea what I was getting into, all the steps and decisions and hiccups along the way until I was actually holding my book in my excited little hands.
One of the things I never gave a thought to but became important as time progressed is image disparity between a computer image and the actual print copy of the cover of a book.
After working with my cover designer from the self-publishing house I contracted with through many revisions and adjustments, I sat back on my couch and grinned tremendously. I was looking at the finished product of my book cover, the finished image on my computer. It was perfect... all the colors, the saturation, the contrast, the brightness, the color balance, the hue. It was exactly what I was hoping and looking for.
Imagine my surprise when I received the print copy to review and the cover wasn't the same. The colors were much more intense, saturated, too vibrant... it was not at all what was displayed on my computer screen. Obviously, adjustments had to be made.
And they were but, in today's modern, long distance, email world it took time to get everything right. And I can't help but wonder sometimes that if I had been knowledgeable enough to begin with, been aware of image disparity and attempted to compensate for it initially, then some time and hassle could have been avoided.
So, for anyone out there who might be embarking upon the wondrous but often confusing world of self-publishing and who is not aware of this little but important issue, keep it in mind. You might save yourself a little headache along the way.
Goodnight world.
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