Jupiter

[ffutures]

I'm trying to convey just how big Jupiter is - all my other planet pictures have been pretty small, this time I want something BIG. So I've put the image in the background of the first page covering the planet. Text isn't final yet, I may put in some facts and figures for Jupiter before diving into the moons, and remember this is a 1930s vision of Jupiter, not modern astronomy.

I'd be grateful if people could take a look (and possibly print it if they can spare the ink/toner) and tell me what they think. Does it print well? Or will it just be a nuisance?

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/temp/jupiter.pdf

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Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

The red-orange bits aren't too bad (on-screen), but the grey areas are much too dark. Looking at the page in Photoshop, there are areas at about 40-50% grey at the darkest. I think you need to pull those back to about 20% at maximum, and I'd prefer 15%.

It will look washed out, there's nothing you can do about that, but you want people to be able to read the copy without distraction, so pushing the image back is what you have to do.