[Bf-docboard] less graphics

[Alex Heizer]

I can do it, if nobody else wants to (unless you're volunteering for it 
here ;). I'll have PS, Quark, Freehand, etc., and can burn everything to 
DVD, so I'll have plenty of room to store everything.

Alex


Matt Ebb wrote:

> Alex Heizer wrote:
>
>> Storing screenshots and renders in EPS is actually what needs to 
>> happen for anything that you'll want to print. Any graphic that comes 
>> out of QuarkXpress for a press needs to be converted at some point to 
>> a 300dpi CMYK EPS. If we don't do it here, we'll be charged by the 
>> printer to have them do it for us at print time. EPSes are also good 
>> for vector images, but if there is even the most remote possibility 
>> that something will be printed, you will save time and money by 
>> making a high-res TIFF, and convert it to an EPS from the very 
>> beginning.
>
>
> Exactly, not to mention that if you convert to CMYK using Photoshop, 
> the results are often better than if you sent through the RGB images 
> to the printer and let their hardware do it (the functions for 
> converting to CMYK in Photoshop are probably the best and most 
> accurate around).
>
> However, some people may not have access to PS, or to software that 
> can convert to CMYK and/or EPS. Perhaps it might be an idea to use the 
> .blend file idea and find a volunteer who can create the appropriate 
> imagery from .blend files that people send in.
>
>
> -Matt