Which illustration?

[ffutures]

One last question on the illustrations:

I have two versions of the same illo, one from McClure's magazine (and in colour), the other from the Windsor magazine (and I think a bit clearer) but grey scale. I currently have the grey scale image in the PDF.



Which should I have in the PDF? Remember that this will be on a letter-sized (slightly shorter than A4) page in the document, so either will end up the same size.

Of course, if anyone has any brilliant suggestions on improving the colour picture that would certainly help.

later: Oh good grief! I just discovered that one of the illustrations from The Windsor Magazine is missing from the PDF; I thought it was only in McClure's magazine but it's in both. I shall have to do some revising. And I think I'll go with the colour illo, it cleaned up quite well when I ran it through some filters.

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

If I wasn/t short on sleep, I'd be tempted to scale the colour version to the same size as the monochrome; convert them both to Lab colour; Gaussian blur on the a and b channels on the colour version until the screen artifacts disappear; then swap in the L channel from the monochrome; adjust L channel to suit, maybe unsharpmask the a & b channels. Finally convert back to RGB.

I might give it a try tomorrow, but I've got to go collapse now.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I think I've got it more or less acceptable, but if you can improve it please do! I can always replace it in the PDF later.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

I like the B&W, but the colour one really pops. (Saying as is it currently on my mind, it's a really nice use of Orange and Teal, that tiny bit of orange at the top right giving that sense of depth to the image.)

So yeah, I'd agree, the colour is the way to go.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've decided to go with it - since I have to edit the PDF anyway.