Scaling Artwork, ContinuedUniformityWhen you prepare a series of illustrations for a publication, draw them all tothe same scale, if possible. This will save you time at the camera, in thedarkroom, and in preparing the mechanical paste-up. This will also improvethe overall appearance of the product. Carefully plan artwork that containtext to assure a uniform size of the text in the finished product.LimitationsThere are limitations on the amount of reduction or enlargement a piece ofartwork can endure. Prepare your line copy for same size or smallerreproduction. In general, make your artwork a maximum of two times largeror a minimum of one and one-half times larger than the desired size, or atanother scale in between the two, as long as it remains proportionallycorrect. This technique minimizes irregularities and makes the drawingappear more finished. Artwork drawn very large and extensively reducedwill begin to fill in detail and appear dark and heavy. Artwork drawn smalland enlarged will appear crude and rough because defects tend to magnify.Before beginning a drawing for reproduction, remember that both the linesand the spaces between the lines are reduced or enlarged.Figure 1-30 shows the effects of enlargement and reduction on artwork.Figure 1-30.—Reduction and enlargement will lose detail andmagnify defects in reproduced artwork.1-41
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