Picture Book | Editing & InDesign

When moving the illustrated pages into software, I knew that I wanted any digital treatments to be subtle and serve as a way of enhancing the original image.

I thought that anything too digital may look synthetic, and would detract from the very traditional, handmade methods I had used to create the pages.

On the left is the unedited scan, and beside it is the same image that has been slightly resized/cropped, with levels added to darken the areas of ink that were blotchy, and brighten the stars.

One thing I was worried about was any inconsistencies in colours, so an option I tried was to grayscale the images so they would adhere to the same colours across the board. 

However I thought that doing this flattened the image, and took away the really nice greens and blues that gave the illustrations the appearance of water. So I kept the original colour mode.

Next it was just a matter of placing the photoshop files into an inDesign document. Making sure they were in the correct order, and that they reached the bleed marks. This step was surprisingly straightforward.