Graphic & Illustration Preparation

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Submission Guidelines for Graphic and Illustration Formats

If you want to include graphics in your book, please follow the guidelines below.

We need all graphics—including photos, tables, charts, diagrams, drawings, foreign fonts, and anything else that is not text or would be considered a graphic—embedded into the manuscript in a 300-dpi TIFF (.tif) file format.
We also need a separate back-up TIFF (.tif) file for each of the graphics.
The additional graphics fee is $100 for 1-25 illustrations and $200 for 26-50 illustrations within the manuscript.
We limit the number of graphics in the manuscript to 50. Otherwise, the manuscript file can become so large that you may have trouble uploading it to us and we may have trouble opening it.
All illustrations are produced in black and white or grayscale; we cannot process color inside the manuscript.
The book cover does not "count" as a graphic. It is in full color for no additional charge.
Printer slang for "full color" is "four color"; this means the full range of colors, not literally just four colors.

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