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#501 Volume 1
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#511 Volume 11
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Illuminated Manuscripts
#401 Volume 1
#402 Volume 2
#403 Volume 3
#404 Volume 4
#405 Volume 5
#414 Volume 6
#415 Volume 7
#416 Volume 8
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Celtic Manuscripts Art
#406 Volume 1
#407 Volume 2
#408 Volume 3
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Auguste Racinet
L'Ornement Polychrome
#423 Volume 1
#424 Volume 2
#425 Volume 3
#426 Volume 4
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#417 Antonius Collection

Walter Crane
#419 The Faerie Queene

William Morris
#418 Kelmscott Chaucer

Owen Jones
#410 Spanish Ballads
#411 Paradise & the Peri
#420 Gray's Elegy
#421 Joseph & Brethren
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Aubrey Beardsley
#422 Le Morte D'Arthur

#412 Gems from the Poets

#413 Borders for Word

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Vector Graphics - The Quality of Our Work
How our drawings are made

This may look like a scan or a painting done in Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter, but in reality it is a vector drawing made entirely in Adobe Illustrator.
And it has been saved as EPS version 8 (to make it accessible to people with older software versions). The version 8 is the oldest one that supports thumbnails and preview of the images.

You can grab and extract single elements from it,

change colors, ......

blow them up at any size and do all the good things that can be done with a vector drawing.

 

All CDs (except Vol. 12 #412) contain our drawings made in Adobe Illustrator using a Wacom graphic tablets and only two tools: The Pen Tool and the Calligraphic Brush Tool
The Pen Tool
All drawings are composed of closed paths (shapes of solid colors) drawn with the Pen Tool.
Calligraphic Brush Tool.
The drawings that require the look of real penwork or brush strokes include parts of the drawings made with the Calligraphic Brush Tool. Drawings made with this tool do not always display correctly when opened using other software. They also are not very “stable” when extremely resized. Therefore, all strokes made with the brush in our drawings are subsequently expanded and they appear and behave just like normal close paths.

 

Our work is clean and well organized.
Users proficient with Adobe Illustrator or other graphic illustration software can use the Layer Manager (or a similar panel) to single out elements, change color scheme and basically modify the images any way they want.

For all the other customers we include the exports to other files formats

WMF, the standard vector format for Microsoft Word and other Office applications. WMF images are bright and crisp without any pixels while keeping the size of the files considerably small.

TIFF, the industry standard for raster format. Almost every CD includes a version at 600dpi; if I remember correctly, only one CD includes the tiff at 500dpi for reasons of space in the disk.

GIF, the web format for images in solid colors. Gif also supports transparency.

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