InDesign Children's Book JPEGs and PNGs Replaced with PSD Files

Now that I know better, I’ll be using only the original PSD files for my future children’s picture books. Live and learn, I say…when I’m feeling philosophical. Today I finished finding and replacing all of the low-res images in my children’s book. Hooray for me! My next step is to create the cover, which is no small task. Besides being the cover picture, there’s a back picture, and a spine, and the inner front and back liner content. I’ve read thousands of books, and yet, this is the first time I’ve even thought about what goes in to creating a book cover.

Here’s one of the images I patched up today. Just look at those cute bugs and rodents. My question is, why the hell is Jimmy’s nose blue? Shouldn’t it be orange, the same as it is in every other picture in the book? Dear, dear…that problem goes on to my ever-growing TODO list.

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