Yet another Jupiter variant

[ffutures]

I'm going with the text curved around the graphic, adding the moons to the same scale:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/temp/jupiter4.pdf

This is a bigger illustration so a bigger file, about 100k. Remember that a lot of this is overheads that will be absorbed in the total file size for the finished book, e.g. different fonts.

I think this works pretty well, unless someone can give me a good reason otherwise.

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Is there something funny about the texture of Jupiter? or is it just how it displays on my machine? Anyone else see what I see?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's processed for a coloured pencil look, if that's what you mean.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Oh, it seems a bit too regular, but yes that is what I am seeing. It wasnt there earlier?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It was, actually.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

It does look too regular for a sketch, as if someone has applied a (rather small) Photoshop texture to the image. At first I thought it was supposed to represent a fabric surface, but it looked wrong for that.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's a texture from Microsoft's 'Picture It' - I'll look at alternatives, but to me it isn't obtrusive enough to be worth wasting a lot of time on it.