Thanks again to all for your positive words... warms my heart on a cold day
WolfSpirit said:
And really love the colour too, orange is so good for the fool's energy.
This is what I mean when I say I am going to hit problems with the digitalisation of my cards: the colour you call orange, WolfSpirit, is supposed to be gold...
taking pictures or scanning always gives the same result - it takes away the metallic quality of the colour. Silver looks like white or slightly blueish, gold like beige or orange depending on the paint (dark beige for metallic markers, orange for the gold gouache). Even the black is not evenly black, depending on where the light source comes from, it always is black on the opposite side but like a deep blue on the side the light comes from.
If I use a flash, I have reflections that put accents on the cards where there are supposed to be none. Scanners bring along another problem: my originals are slightly longer than the standard A4 format (width is ok) so it is impossible to scan it all in in one go. To work on smaller originals would be a solution, but then it gets tricky for the Mandalas (no matter how fine your paintbrush is, if the corner you are trying to fill with paint without blotching is still smaller... you can imagine).
If I scan it in 2 parts, it never fits together, and where the sheet goes over the borders of the scanner, there is that blue tinge again in the black...
A3 scanners are extremely expensive, and most shops here that offer scanning services, only have the standard A4.
I suppose I will have to hire the help of a professional photographer in the end.
I realise I have forgotten to answer your question, Tom:
I have not decided yet if I am going to look for a publisher or if I am going to do them myself. I suppose this printing business will be quite costly (silver and gold!), but it will be as difficult to get a good quality printing myself, as I already have the problems with the quality of the colours on the computer.
On the other threads, I have looked at the possibilites of printing and laminating (and in a computer shop, someone suggested I use a wax printer), but I already now, without trying, get a feeling that the laminating process will make the black cloudy and I have my doubts about the wax, too. If I could try it before buying a wax printer and a laminator, it would be helpful!
Love
Simone