Black or white backgrounds for books

I am making my first book. For those who have seen the printed versions, any thoughts on the choice of balck or white backgrounds on pages - or a mix of both? Thanks Ladymavis

Yes. If you're anywhere near serious about music and/or planning to put a decent amount of video on it, get the 60. It's $100 extra for twice the memory and better battery life. The only reason I can see getting the 30 is if the difference in thickness is more important than the above to you, or if you don't care about having your whole library on your iPod at the same time and want to deal with playlist or manual synching.
The black looks amazing, and it's distinctive from all the whites out there, although I'm sure that will be changing into a healthy mix soon. But the black looks better. If you're planning on taking care of your iPod, keeping it in it's case and not tossing it around, get the black. But it does show scratches easier than the white, so if you're a nature freak looking to listen to some music to get you amped for that next mountain bike sesh, (or if you're racist to an insane degree) might want to consider the white.

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There is a bug affecting PPC Macs with iPhoto 6.0.5 and QuickTime 7.1.3 that causes it to crash with photos that have no color profile attatched. In addition, iPhoto 6 does not work well with Grayscale. So check these scans to see if they have no color profile or if the profile is grayscale. If so, you'll need to convert them to sRGB. They'll still be black & white, but they'll have a color profile that iPhoto 6 will accept.
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Before doing anything, you might want to try inserting some of those scans into a book template and see what happens. To see how a book will print when you order it from Apple, choose Print when you are viewing the book. Allow it to assemble the file. In the Print Dialog box, click the PDF button and select Save PDF from the drop-down menu. Minimize the iPhoto window to find a little box asking you to select a location for the saved PDF. [If you don't go looking for this window you'll be stuck waiting indefinitely.] View the PDF and see how those black & white scans look.

I hired a commercial artist to create a color image for the cover of a self published book. I want a black and white image for the inside. The commercial artist has not responded to this request. How do I determine the format of the color image, I'm guess

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rons,
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It may have been created as raster artwork in Photoshop, or it may have been created as vector artwork with the help of Illy, or as a mixture of vector and raster artwork in either application, or both combined.
If you just need to have a raster representation in black and white based on the current colour image, you may try this, in a new RGB document (View>Smart Guides are your friends):
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