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Subject:RE: How Much Editing of Graphics Do You Do? From:"Michael Collier" <mcollier -at- arlut -dot- utexas -dot- edu> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 6 Mar 2002 13:42:41 -0600
> Without mentioning my own attitudes for now, I was wondering: how much
> do other people on the list edit graphics? Do you crop them? Clean up
> moires? Remove writing in the background that's incomplete? Touch up
> photos? Adjust contrast and brightness? Change their sizes to emphasize
> their importance or improve page breaks?
All of the above, pretty regularly. I do tech writing too :-)
I should add though that part of my job also involves web publishing but I
still do all of that graphic stuff for the published docs.
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