Okay, that makes sense... would the powers that be want to take a looksee at the image file of 'lightened' images? Leigh Robert Cicconetti <grythumn@gmail.com> wrote: Current policy on DP books[1] is to have high-resolution scans of the illustrations archived along with the projects.. they will eventually be made available for people to use. Keep in mind raw scans are extremely expensive in terms of disk space/bandwidth.. a mildly graphics heavy book can easily hit 200-300 megs, while a book with a lot of color plates can easily exceed several gigabytes. (Before descreening, etc. I scan all illos at 600 DPI as PNGs; after descreening and downscaling to 300 DPI the size drops dramatically.) R C [1] Not sure when it went into effect. Probably sometime after the Project Manager/Post Processor jobs were split. On 7/8/06, Jacqulyn Perry <urbangleaner56@yahoo.com> wrote: Hi; Obviously, I'm new here. I realize that the Project is mainly text driven, but... I down loaded Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales edition with Edmund Dulac's illustrations-after jumping around the room in joyful glee-then realized that the dpi on the images isn't high enough to print them out, with the rest of the book. At least, not very well. Then, the images-or scans of them-were so dark that you can't even really see them. I'm assuming that that's mainly due to the age of the book. Anyway, I took the liberty of working with the illos a little... I lightened them a little, so they were viewable, and placed them in a folder in my computer, leaving the original image file in the ebook folder alone. I'm more than happy to send these lightened images to someone, to see if they want to re-place the exsisting image file in the ebook with THIS file. They aren't any higher dpi ofcourse, but at least people will be able to see them. But if there is an interest, I need to know who as well as how to send them. My question is this... why aren't the images higher res? I realize it would take up more space, but it would be wonderful to be able to have good quality illos to go along with the text. But then, besides being a reader, I'm a visual artist myself. But it would be wonderful, especially given the fact that so much of this artwork is completly inaccessable to the public, or if available in poster/print form, its anywhere from $45-$80 or more for a small reproduction, and this is work thats in the public domain! Anyway, sorry about the rant. Leigh --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.