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Unread 03-26-2014, 12:11 AM
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I am thinking of using this painting for the cover of my book , Flight Path
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Beautiful Cyn! And congratulations!
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Yes. Congrats--is this a painting that you made?
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yes this is my painting that I did for one of the poems in the book but I thought it might make good cover art. I am considering it.
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It's really good. A lot of palette knife work, it seems. I like the details in the crows' eyes given the atmospheric rest of the painting.

Are you making several paintings for poems in the book? This would certainly make for a strong cover.

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Very nice, multi-talented one.
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I like the style and the subject matter. The composition worries me a little, the crows on the upper left are cut off as if the painting is based on a photo.
The painting has energy and is of a professional standard so I can see it working, I used one of my computer paintings on a poetry book I published but the colours were'nt quite the same in hard copy so I'd recommend you get a hard copy printed sample of the cover before rolling out the edition.
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ps the whole time i have been typing this the local gang of crows have been cawing like crazy, magica magica..
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There are different color systems in use for print media vs images using light (TV computer etc...) This is because colors made from light and colors made from pigment work in an opposite way.

For print you need CMYK and this is based on pigments. This is "subtractive" color. Pigments absorb light, subtracting what light is bouncing back to your eye. All colors of pigments added together create black or close to black.

For images of light on a monitor, the system is RGB. This is "additive" color. Mixtures ADD more light shooting to your eye. All colors of RGB mixed together make bright white light.

There are some other systems but this is the main gist of it.

This is why an image created using an RGB system will look insipid and washed out when printed in CMYK (which is what your printer is doing) and vice versa. So, Yes!, check first but also simply convert your file to the correct color system for whichever output you want. There is usually a setting in the color menus of a program. And don't worry if your image on the monitor looks bad when you convert to CMYK - this is to be expected - just print one and judge from that.
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