Graphics Mechanical Guidelines

Dealing with digital graphics may require a graphics program that is capable of scaling, conversion to different formats, and changing the dpi (dots per inch) density of your artwork.  If your artwork is not digitized, you will have to use a good scanner to convert it.  If you don't have the equipment or expertise, you may want to outsource the job.

There are a number of graphics programs that can do the minimal editing necessary to resize your graphics and change the density (dots per inch / pixels per inch) including Adobe Photoshop Elements.  You might have one in your computer already.

General format: convert graphics to JPEG (jpg), gif, or preferably png; 72 dpi. We have simplified our requirements to the following:

• Internal graphics and illustrations, whatever actual size you need up to:  245 pixels wide x 439 pixels tall. We won't re-scale the graphic, so please get it the way you want it to appear.
• Full sized cover: Best: 400 x 700 pixels (4 : 7 ratio).  Include your workshop's logo if you wish (or other entity that is sponsoring you) or similar graphics. Leave a 32w x 65h pxl "throw away" portion of the artwork for our imprint (a corner is best, but we'll adapt).   If you can create a wide version 480 W x 240 H (2 : 1 ratio) that would save us a lot of work (it's not as important as the 4 : 7 cover, only one e-format requires it for the Pocket PC).
  
  Best of all possible worlds would be if you can provide any special cover text in png or gif with a transparent background (or as a separate layer in a png cover) so we can move them around and rotate the title for the spine. If you don't have special text fonts, we'll do the text and effects in whatever format seems best to us at the time given the fonts we have available.