Self Improving Your Booklets
You do not need a professional to improve the look of your custom booklets. If you want to minimize the cost overall of your booklet printing and of course have more control over their designs, it is actually a good idea to improve your booklets yourself. There are many simple ways that novices can enhance the look and feel of a color booklet. If you are a novice yourself, it should be a good move for you to actually do this for your own custom booklets already. Let me give you a few tricks that you can try on your own.
1. Dump clip-arts and use real high resolution images – Clip-arts maybe an easy and fast way to add interesting images on your color booklets, but it also makes your prints look very standardized, common and of course boring. That is why your first move to improve your color booklets is to actually dump those clip-arts in your cover and inner pages.
Remove all those common clip-art graphics and replace them with actual high resolution images that you may have taken yourself or got for free on the Internet (with the appropriate free license). Make sure that those images are at a high 300dpi resolution rating or higher for the best results for your booklets. High resolution images means having crisp, clear and impressive pictures in your booklets that will always impress people easily.
2. Use cleaner and more distinctive fonts – Another simple way to actually improve your booklets is to just use cleaner and more distinctive fonts. If you are the typical novice, you might have used the standard fonts available in your publishing software. Now, these may be good, but they are also typically common enough for people to recognize.
By using different and more distinct fonts that you download from another third party resource, you can make your color booklets look a bit more different and distinct “text-wise”. This can easily make your booklets look modern, sleek and even “Web 2.0” if you actually like that style.
3. Edit colors through schemers – Colors are a vital part of the identity of your booklets. If you want to improve the color theme of your booklets, you should try to use color schemers. This is especially useful if you do not know really what color looks good with another color. Color schemers basically suggest the best colors for you, helping you eliminate all wasted time mixing and matching colors for your booklet themes. So try out some of those special color schemers online now. Most of these services are free.
4. Add some shadows, gradients and textures – today, a simple and bare design is a sign of amateur booklets. That is why you can benefit a lot from just adding some shadows, color gradients and subtle textures to your booklet drafts. You can place these effects on text boxes, images, line dividers and headlines and backgrounds. This adds that all important texture and “natural clutter” that makes a booklet look more complete and detailed.
5. Get better booklet printing materials – Finally, you can just try to get better booklet printing materials. Using glossy paper and glossy inks can already easily improve the overall look of your color booklets. Those prints will look a lot more professional and impressive because of the extra gleams, shines and smoothness of the material. So if you do have some extra money to throw into your booklet printing, you might as well get better booklet printing materials.
Great! Now you know how to improve your color booklets yourself. Believe me, the steps listed above are pretty easy and you do not need to hire a professional designer because it all can be done easily through the technology available today.
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