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Requirements for illustrations

Photos (black and white and colour) on paper (original photos, pictures from books etc.)

The photos should have sufficient contrast and should be large enough (min. 10 x 15 cm, but larger is better). If a stylist has to enlarge the photo, the quality will be less; reducing is better.

Most inner parts of AUP-books are black-white. If you deliver the illustration material in colour, please make sure that it has sufficient contrast. If you are not sure: print the picture in black-white (digital illustrations) or make a black-white copy (with original photos or with illustrations in books).

Slides

A large screen slide (‘ekta') is nearly always good; a small screen slide is not always useable, but often it is. It depends thus per case.

Digital images

They have to be min. 300 dpi (‘dots per inch'). Internet images are mostly 72 dpi (screen quality), and therefore (almost) always insufficient for reproduction. Self-made scans will be ‘light' jpg-files, for example between 25 - 250 kb. Also with these scans a stylist can normally not work. A stylist prefers ‘heavy' tiff- or eps-files, or sometimes ‘heavy' jpg-files. Rather no pdf-files, because these are ‘closed' files which you cannot manipulate. Heavy digital files cannot be send by mail, but have to be saved on a cd-rom and send by mail. The email server of AUP can receive max. 10 mb per email/attachment.

Please note: Much depends from the goal for which the image will be used. For a colour spread a very good quality image will be needed; for a small image in black-white the quality may be less.

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The author should obtain all necessary permissions to reproduce illustrations

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