October 2nd, 2017:
Of course everything again took longer than I’d hoped. First I had to correct some data (my fault; I used a faulty colour profile for converting the data), and then for the proof the printing shop first sent me only a few sample cards instead of the full deck I’d anticipated. So I had to demand the rest in addition which took another week. But today the full trial proof arrived, and it’s looking very good!
For those of you who are interested: A proof is a digital trial print that shows the colours, saturation, and contrasts, bindingly as close to identical as possible as it will look in the final, offset print. If anything looks fishy on the proof you know it would look fishy on the end product.
Accordingly, I’m now going to check each image very throughly if I need to change anything. Fortunately, for most cards I won’t have to. There are only a few on which the titles need to be a bit lighter, and a couple have a colour tint I want to try to neutralise. Making these changes shouldn’t take longer than a few days. And the changes aren’t so big that I will want another proof sent to me. So as soon as the changes are done and transmitted I can also give the printing shop permission to print. That doesn’t mean that they can print immediately, though. They are a big company and have a lot of other people’s projects already lined up. It will take 4-6 weeks until they get to mine. I’ll post another update as soon as there is news!
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Gern geschehen 🙂
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FREAKEN EXCITED….
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It doesn’t come across on the photos how good they look; even if I say it myself: they are going to be stunningly beautiful!
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There’s no doubt in my mind that your deck will be stunningly beautiful! I love your art, your passion and integrity shines through.
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Thank you; that’s so lovely to hear! I could indeed never publish anything I wasn’t passionate about, and I would feel like a liar if it wasn’t authentic, if I wasn’t behind it 100%. Several times when I was still working on the individual cards I tried to paint a card I had no real understanding of yet. The results were truly awful; they looked like what I used to paint when I was fourteen (on an off day). That was really interesting. They looked like almost two decades of mental and emotional development had been erased.
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This is going to be one Fantastic deck! I can’t wait to own it and work with it! This blog is wonderful too.
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Dear Sydney, thank you for the comment! I’m getting increasingly excited, too, and at the same time it’s also frustrating because since I gave permission to print, there’s nothing for me to do but twiddle my thumbs. (And putting the final touches to the guidebook which will be printed by a different printer; but it’s a far less complicated process so it won’t take as long.)
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Anna, your guide book should be a “Must Have” for every Lenormand Reader.
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Thanks 🙂 This one is only the Little White Booklet though; not the extended version – that will take a lot longer unfortunately.
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Yes, I understand,
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