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I'd like more threads on preparing images for use in ebooks. I have passed many a pleasant day in rehabbing old photos and artwork to my satisfaction (or as close as I could get). And that's a problem for productivity, isn't it - that it takes so long?
I guess the guidelines stay the same no matter the image, but I'd think the specific routines and/or parameters would differ for different image types - e.g. line art v. continuous tone. Is there a tutorial?
It would also be nice to hear how people deal with the fleurons, dingbats, dividers, etc that are commonly encountered in scans and often carried over to ebooks. It seems to me to use images of dividers is bad form. It certainly seems a waste when there are many images of the same symbol, one clipped from the scan at each place encountered. One could do better using transparency (if it is well supported), but it seems best to simply do something else (in most cases, I'm sure the case can be made for exceptions).
This thread reminded me - I'm off to the MR library to see if anyone has attempted William Blake using full-page original illustrations alone.
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