On Monday, the files for Passover a Kosher Collection were due at the printer, so every spare moment leading up to Monday was spent proofing and worrying and making small changes here and there. We've had some problems with colour management -- the colours as they appear on my monitor are not the same as the colours as they print on my laser printer, which are different from the colours that print on my ink jet, which are different from the colours on the proofs from my printer (which, btw, are different depending on which printer they use - high resolution proofs versus lower resolution proofs). So I've spent a lot of time tweaking colours.
I knew I'd be receiving a proof of the book soon, but I wasn't expecting it until next week. It arrived this morning! It is extremely cool to see it printed in a way that's close to what the actual book will look like. There are a few issues -- the images in the book were printed using a low-resolution printer, so the colours are still off. I'm now waiting for them to send me some copies of the pictures done with the high resolution printer. Some of the words on the cover are the wrong colours -- it's not bad as it is, but it's not how it was designed. And the whole thing has to be proofed one more time.
The thing is, it was really exciting when it came today. It looks like a book. Obviously it was designed to look like a book, but it's really different when it shows up on the right size paper with the pictures in the right place and looking like a book.
When the Soup book was printed, I didn't see it until I was in a town car in Toronto at 5 AM on my way to do my first live TV demo. I wasn't involved in the pictures and the design -- my work was done after all the edits were made. This experience is completely different. I've been involved from start to finish and it's amazing to see it at this point.
Enough of my excited rambling, here's a picture of the proof on my desk:
