Today, I was directed to an on-line resource that I think is potentially very useful.
It is called DigitalExpert
This is a quote from their “about” page:
“This tool helps authors, publishers, societies, and our companies to develop and process files that meet minimum requirements to be printed in an effective and quality manner. The objective of the system is to examine digital files and identify those with problems…”
Here is a list of file types that it can look at:
File Formats
Here is an example of a report that I received:
Example report
I have tried it now with quite a few images, and think that it is good for finding potential weaknesses in an image and the website overall seems to be a useful source of information regarding “how to prepare images of sufficiently high resolution for publication”.
Of course this website cannot tell you if your figures are meaningful or aesthetically pleasing. :)
Before I started editing Mallorn I had no idea that there was a difference between pictures you look at on a computer and those you see in print.
Computer images are ‘RGB’ (red-green-blue) wgereas print images are ‘CMYK’ (cyan-magenta-yellow-blacK). Converting one to the other is a one-click affair with photoshop.
Mrs Gee told me that. Wives. Very useful things to have.