My Favorite Childhood Book One of my favorite books I had as a kid was a World Book Encyclopedia that had acetate pages that you could flip to see how colors built up to a full-color image. (It's true! At the age of 13 I was into page production and color separations.) When I worked in advertising we called these color breakdowns prog proofs (for progressive proofs). But during many years of working with computer graphics, we had no way to see how colors combine on the page. The best we could do was print color on individual laser prints and then hold them up to the window to see how the colors would separate. Finally, I am thrilled to see the Separations Preview an electronic version of my World Book acetate pages. Instead of flipping pages, I click ink colors on and off. I can spend hours doing it. It makes me feel like a kid again! |