Rick's painting.

Photographs (Tonal Art or Halftones)

Photographs should be mounted on illustration board 1 to 2 mm thick, protected with an overlay. Indicate instructions for reduction and/or positioning below the photograph.

Related photographs should be economically presented as a composite plate. Often 6 photos per plate can be made proportional to the text page area. The full-page width to full-page height ratio is 0.72. Estimate somewhat less than this proportion in order to fit the caption of a page-width figure onto the page. Composite plates can also contain 2 or 4 photos per plate. Occasionally an odd number of photographs is necessarily grouped together, incorporating an area of white space within the plate. Photographs should have precisely squared edges butted neatly together. The printer will scribe white hairline rules between such photographs.

All photographs mounted on the same board should be printed on the same paper. Reductions of up to one-third of the original size are acceptable. Enlargement should not be requested.

Cropping: Place precisely squared-off vertical and horizontal crop marks outside the image of the photograph, indicating areas to be excluded.

Use neat, precision-cut single letters or numbers identifying figures within a plate.

Placement of anatomical labels within the photograph should be neat and uncrowded: (1) place leader lines to the area of interest or (2) supply labels on a transparent overlay. The author can remove the background around the subject with a rubylithe overlay or request that the printer opaque out the background or silhouette the subject (an additional expense).