The color correction you are using on the interior pages looks fine, but in my opinion, the "after" version of the front cover looks a bit washed out; I preferred the "before" version, because the color is richer, especially in the girl's face.
Snard, I completely understand and agree with what you're saying. I noticed the 'washed' oversaturatedness on the front cover too. The same processing is not going to or shouldn't apply to both covers and the interior pages because they are different paper stock/finish, maybe inks (?), etc.
I did just fix and replace the front cover with a better one, moving both the old, oversaturated cover (carrying the same processing overall) as well as the new improved cover both to the back matter sample pages. [
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Thank you for pointing this out, it was probably late at night when i scanned and I obviously should have seen and *thought* about this better.
On a side note: I scan at 300dpi and resize to 1280 wide resolution. I needed to rotate 180 degrees the upside image. I did this using Windows image viewer or what ever its called, and i noticed that according to windows file properties these flipped images were some coverted or rather marked to 96dpi.
This really makes no sense though I believe, because the 'Dpi (Dots per inch)' should really only matter when actually setting your scanner. In other words your scanner is scanning the materials at 300dpi or the minimum level appropriate for printing and converting to a relative screen resolution. The fact that my rotated images display 96dpi
yet have maintained their 1280 resolution shows that the use or meaning of dpi outside of actually scanning or saving/exporting images for the printer is, well, "whack." (New term for the old term out-of-whack).
Thus Dpi is only relevant for scanning process or your actual scanner to translate your physical material into a high enough quality and resolution. This should give you a digital image of rough around 2000-2300px to work with. I personally thinking resizing to 1280 is probably best, why not keep a larger picture when monitors and drive space get bigger and cheaper and doesn't everyone just use CDisplay or similiar anyway, where you can 'fit to height'?
In other words, resolution for actual digital images only matter, dpi at this point matters not.
