folks, i am putting together a childrens book on my PC, can any one recommend the right colout format and DPI to aid in the publishing process

Cheers

J

always CMYK for print. Probably 300 dpi. But, Jeff, check with the printer. They're the ones that can give you the best info.

I agree with Eve. CMYK, and 300 dpi.

yep as above and if your printing it ask what they recommend mate when we did the school year book they wanted 380dp for some reason...so check with the printer mate.

When do we get to see a copy mate?

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what? you fart?

No I double posted, thats fine if ya with the ladies but bad if ya in a forum thread

Ah, cheers. I am in the compiling stage. I just needed some idea as to what to work in.

For clarity is it better to work in a higher DPI and then reduce when finished????

And Blue, you will get my first copy (signed of course)

I would stay in 300 dpi, through the complete workflow. as mentioned above, contact the printer, they will give you the right settings and profiles for ps and indesign (if this is the software you use). you can use default settings too, but I made the experience, that the print becomes kind of dark. and dont forget to add about 3 mm around the edges, if the print shall go over the whole page. they will cut it afterwards, and the 3 mm avoid some white spaces along the edge, due to a certain variance of the cutting.

thanks again all, some good ideas there YP for the cut lines

Yup - 300 is the magic number: specially if you are from SPARTA!!!!!

Seriously, your printer will MOST likely want it in CMYK, though more and more printers are taking RGB files now (sRGB and the more robust Adobe RGB)... but you gotta talk to your potential printers about that.

I really recommend you keep everything RGB until the last minute (photoshop tends to give you more options in the RGB realm than the CMYK) and then convert to whatever the printer wants at the time of printing. I would also make a practice of keeping the RGB files as-is and creating a COPY to convert to CMYK.

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Thanks reiny for the change in direction....