How Much Editing of Graphics Do You Do?

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Yesterday, I was talking with another writer, and was surprised that his 
attitude towards screen shots and photos in documentation was nearly the 
opposite of mine.

Without mentioning my own attitudes for now, I was wondering: how much 
do other people on the list edit graphics? Do you crop them? Clean up 
moires? Remove writing in the background that's incomplete? Touch up 
photos? Adjust contrast and brightness? Change their sizes to emphasize 
their importance or improve page breaks? Is editing of graphics part of 
your production routine, or do you just insert them and forget about them?

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Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com

"For they marry and go as the world rolls back,
They marry, and vanish, and die,
But their spirits shall live on the outside track
So long as the years go by."
- Henry Lawson, "The Outside Track"





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