I'm excited and must share

[bewitched]

Awesome work!

[Deebs]

I love it! Nice work, Caddie. I'm so glad you're happy with it, Snow.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Thanks, everyone!

Originally Posted by Alex

Well I'm going to have to take a contrarian position and say that is a pretty nice design. Good job.

Forcing Alex to agree with others makes it all the sweeter.

Originally Posted by Snowflake

CP has done a marvelous job, in particular since my "instructions" were pretty vague. I sent her a bunch of pics and said have fun and here are some other book covers I kind of like. It's got to be hard to do something where the person wanting the work done is not terribly articulate about what it is she might want.

Au contraire, you provided plenty of book cover style samples, which is all I needed. You were exceedingly patient and not at all demanding or nitpicky. I think I got off easy!

[Strangler Lewis]

Smokin'!

[What's a bleed area?]

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

[What's a bleed area?]

It's a female thing.

[Betty]

Bleed

[BDBopper]

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

[What's a bleed area?]

Originally Posted by Betty

Bleed

Wikipedia is a little misleading.

"Bleed" is additional image that extends beyond the trimmed edge. By printing this extra 1/8" of image, it allows for minor movement tolerances in post-press cutting. Without the bleed, one runs the risk of seeing a very small, but usually quite noticeable white edge where the image is supposed to run off (bleed) the edge of the paper.

What Snowflake was referring to ("The text runs a bit too close to the bleed area on the top and bottom...") was keeping live copy away from the trim. While typically it is suggested that "live copy" (text and images where it would be highly noticeable if they were clipped) be kept 1/8" away from the final trim edge, often times from a design aesthetic, one will keep type further away than that. From the looks of it - the type is more than 1/8" from trim, but I agree that it needs to be just a little bit more.

Hey: I have a bachelor's degree in this crap: it isn't too often I get to show it off in public.

Originally Posted by Moonliner

It's a female thing.

Well, there is that too/

[Betty]

That's a much better explanation then what I'd typed out, erased, and linked to. Funny - I use it all the time - but trying to explain it clearly without showing a picture of it - well - I got pretty wordy.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Thanks for the expert explainer, Kevy. Hmm, guess I should get on that.