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Re: Blurb and B&W

2010-12-24 by Vinny

Blurb told me to use .png for my B&W. The book came out just fine.

Vinny
www.wulfsden.com

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "goldhorde" <dean@...> wrote:
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> That doesn't make any sense - PNG format makes a difference more so in VECTOR art rather than in RASTER (bitmap/pixel) art when compared to JPEG. Something is going on at BLURBs processing end or with their workflow parameter preferences. Does BLURB accept TIF format with LZW compression?
> 
> -Dean Daniels
> dean@... 
> (GoldHorde) 
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Deanna Dikeman <ddikeman@> wrote:
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> > I found that I got a better b&w book from Blurb when I sent them PNG files rather than the JPGs I started with. They suggested the change when I contacted them because I was getting a color cast on my b&w images.
> >
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