Why not colour?

[bcholmes]

Given how many people talk about how much they'd like to see full-colour Hero products, I was recently wondering why Digital Hero isn't coloured?

I could *guess* some reasons why this might be, but I was wondering if the idea had really been considered and discarded for some reason or if it just hadn't been thought about.

[BoloOfEarth]

Originally posted by bcholmes
Given how many people talk about how much they'd like to see full-colour Hero products, I was recently wondering why Digital Hero isn't coloured?

Actually, I printed one issue out, my kid had the crayons out, and ... well, at least one issue is colored. :)

Seriously, I'm guessing it has to do with cost and size, and maybe time. I may be wrong, but I'd guess a color pic takes more memory than line art, and artists might charge more for color than b/w or greyscale. (I could easily be wrong here on either count.)

As is, a 5 MB file is pretty big for a phone modem to download. If full color made it 7-10 MB, I might be discouraged from purchasing DH if a cable modem wasn't available.

Anyway, that's just my guess.

[Steve Long]

We can't even afford color art for our actual books. We definitely can't afford it for the e-magazine, which pays far lower rates for everything across the board.

[lemming]

Originally posted by Steve Long
We can't even afford color art for our actual books. We definitely can't afford it for the e-magazine, which pays far lower rates for everything across the board.
Can't we just promise not to hit Nato with an electric cattleprod if he colorizes in his copious free time? :D

[bcholmes]

Originally posted by Steve Long
We can't even afford color art for our actual books. We definitely can't afford it for the e-magazine, which pays far lower rates for everything across the board.

D'oh! Of course. I was only thinking about colour as affecting printing costs. It only makes sense that it affects the cost of the artwork as well.