Tips For Cleaning Up Your Booklet Design
Having trouble checking for errors in your booklet printing? You can't just blindly go in, checking what you see with your color booklets. You have to have a system in place to prepare the design for booklet printing. Let me give you a few tips on how to do this effectively. Let us start with the basic premise of proper proof reading and checking.
• Check each aspect individually – While most will just check booklets page by page, just like regular proof reading, you have to do more than just that. You have to focus and check each aspect of your booklets individually. This way you can really pour your attention to this aspect and really decide if you really need it or not. You'll have an easier time checking your color booklets this way since you can really organize your thoughts and be decisive about your booklet printing and design.
• Triple check your text – Now, one of the first aspects that you should check to clean up your color booklet the design is the text. It is actually best to check your text three times before going to booklet printing. In fact, it is good to have three people to check your booklet text three times so that you really won't miss anything in terms of spelling or grammar. Your text should be pristine once all those triple checks are done.
• Remove unnecessary design objects – After the text, you should then do a check of the overall layout of your booklet. Your objective here is to clean up your layout and remove any unnecessary design objects. Usually most designers will add in extra design details like paragraph dividers, background accents or even shadow effects and word art.
It might sound like a good idea at the start, but once the booklet draft is complete, you might discover that some of these elements actually is not ideal and they just clutter up the design. So take some time and review each extra design object you have in your booklet printing layout. Decide if you really want to keep it or if it is just a useless design feature which you can cut. You'll be surprised at how simple but beautiful your booklets are after cleaning it like this.
• Check your color values – You might also want to check the color values of your booklet images. Sometimes, the colors are just not that right for proper booklet printing. To try and remedy any kind of color issue with your booklet images, try to use the auto-correct or auto-color feature of your desktop publishing software to help you get the proper colors and light levels. This will save you a lot of time in adjusting and readjusting the values of color in your booklet images. It makes for better and cleaner color booklets too of course.
• Evaluate through sample printing – Finally, you should understand that there is more than meets the eye when you see a booklet design on the computer. To truly be able to evaluate your booklet printing and design, you should print some sample booklets. You can of course just use your home or office printer to do this. Once done, you can have a group of people look and review these sample printings to look for errors. Some errors can really only be seen once printed, so this is the final polishing step that should see your booklets cleaned up after the next editing session.
Great! Hopefully these tips should help you do quite well with your color booklets. You'll have really clean and well made designs for booklet printing this way. Good Luck!
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