Guidelines for Preparing Digital Art Art Manuscripts In choosing a program to create your art, just as with the tools used to create digital text manuscript, avoid graphic tools downloaded from the Internet. Choose well-known, mainstream software such as Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand for drafting line art.Adobe Photoshop is the market leader for editing bitmapped art such as screen shots and continuous tone images. If you have any questions regarding file types, please ask your editor. For highest quality, we prefer to scan photographs in-house.Work with your editor to obtain permission for your art, just as with art from any other source. File Formats: EPS and TIFF There are two basic file formats for digital art manuscript: Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) and Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). EPS is a file format most often used to describe the type of line art rendered in a program such as Adobe Illustrator.TIFF is a file format most often used to describe bitmapped art created by screen captures and scanned photographs. Bitmapped art is usually edited in a program like Adobe Photoshop. If you are drafting art in a program that saves its documents in a file format other than EPS or TIFF, you should export your art into the appropriate file format. If you place a bitmapped graphic as an element inside a line art figure, save the line art “with placed images.” In such cases, be sure to send files for both the bitmapped and the line art figure. Early in the book production process, you should submit some of your original files and exported files to the publisher for testing.Work with your editor early in the process to ensure that if your art software is unable to save directly to EPS or TIFF, the production team can find a means of conversion. Labeling Art in the Digital File Just as you need to submit hard copy manuscript to go with the digital text manuscript, you should submit hard copy manuscript to go with the digital art.The digital art files should be named clearly and sequentially, such as, fig01-01.eps, fig01-02.tif, ..., fig12-19.eps. A useful tool in book publishing is the art log, which lists every piece of art that will appear in your book.A standard art log would include this information: figure number, file name, figure dimensions, whether it is bitmap or line art, and content description.A spreadsheet program, such as Microsoft Excel, or a database program, such as FileMaker Pro, is perfect for creating a digital art log. Many publishers have preformatted templates for keying art logs. If your book is a new edition of an existing book, the publisher may already have a digital art log from the production of the last edition. In such a case, the new digital art log would also include information about whether the art is to be rendered as “new” or “picked up” from the last edition. Please discuss these points with your editor. Special Considerations Remember that book publishing uses different technology from your computer monitor. Books are usually printed using four process colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK).Your monitor uses three colors: red, green, and blue (RGB). RGB colors do not work in book publishing and therefore any images that use this color system must be converted to CMYK (for a four-color book) or grayscale (for a one-color book). Detailed Specifications For more details you can download our Style Guide (3.2 MB) in PDF format.