ePublishing Service
Crystal Hues has the expertise to provide all kinds of publishing solutions that help formulate life-cycle development, execution and protection. Our proficiency also lies in increasing technology to run the business resourcefully and industriously.
Our team of professional compositors, paginators, illustrators, proof readers and quality control experts guarantee submission of zero-error project delivery using six sigma techniques.
We also work personally with the publishers and authors right from the manuscript phase to the final product.
- Books: Scientific, Technical, Medical, Academic, Novel and Fiction.
- Journals: Scientific, Technical, Medical, Educational, Humanities and Social Science.
- Special Volumes: Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Catalogue, Directory etc.
- eBooks
- Audio Books: - Computer- and Human- narrated.
These could benefit your publishing and media business in the following ways:
We guarantee:
- 30 to 60% savings in the total cost
- Fast turn-around
- Quality, uniformity and precision
- Quick ramp-up and scalability
Editorial Services
In order to see a consistent drop in product development and the business costs involved, publishers are these days persistently on the watch for eminent service providers to help generate content for their precious customers in various domains, such as education, science, finance, legal and medicine. Crystal Hues can supply both onshore and offshore editorial services such as pre-editing, language and subject editing, abstracting and indexing.
Our editorial team has the required knowledge and specializations in various arenas, such as editing and authoring services, content creation, abstracting and indexing. We work in the following domains:
We work in the following domains:
- Academics
- Science
- Mathematics
- Humanities and social science
- Finance and trade
- Engineering
- Medicine
- Law
- Business communications
Copy Editing & Proofing
Copy editing is a project that is usually undertaken by editors to improve the writing style, formatting, and accuracy of the content. The five essential Cs are to make the text clear, correct, concise, complete and consistent.
Copy editing also includes the following parameters:
- Correcting the spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors
- Preserving consistency in copy style and figures
- Maintaining references
- Checking for completeness of the manuscript
- Ensuring flow of text
Along with expert content editors, technical editors are too employed in order to verify the scientific/technical/medical subject matter. These technical editors ensure and validate the provision, page layouts, typefaces, tables, equations and figure placements before closing and moving on to other project requirements.
Our Subject Matter Experts (SME), language experts, manuscript editors, academic editors and dissertation editors are also extremely proficient at journal editing, article editing, newsletter editing, eBook editing, medical text editing, scientific editing, technical editing, scholarly journal editing and website copy editing.
The prime objective of getting material proof read is to make the entire process of reading simple and enjoyable for readers. Proof reading, also referred as proofing, consists of modification of grammatical mistakes, spelling mistakes, typographical errors, wrong numbering or mislabeling, subject/verb disagreement, errors in word usage along with erroneous or outdated cross-references.
Composition/Typesetting Services
Almost all publishers work with the objective to hike productivity while making sure that minimal costs are incurred at every stage of production. This can be done by quickening the production procedure through the use of novel solutions. Crystal Hues provides cost effective and rigorous composition services for both print and electronic media that is ideal for all leading publishers and organizations worldwide. Our services also enable each of our clients to undertake few risks and cut down drastically on production costs from 30-50% along with sound management of assets and content.
During our experience in this field, we have skilled compositors who are capable of delivering services, using different typesetting software such as InDesign, Quark, Advent 3B2, Framemaker, LaTeX and Word.
Some of our composition and typesetting services include:
- STM books and journals
- B2B books and journals
- Magazines
- Proceedings
- Recipe books
- Law books
- School books (K1-K12)
- Catalogues
- Encyclopedias
- Directories and Dictionaries
- Comic books **
Our skilled experts also grant precise DTP typesetting services, desktop publishing, graphics design and online printing services. With a thorough and solid background in the field of publication, the professionals in our team have the capacity to turn a rough badly written manuscript document or a digital copy in to a wholesome and complete source file, postscript, or PDF with a professional touch.
Our company also works towards providing high-quality (DTP) desktop publishing and typesetting services across any distance by e-mail, ftp or CD. We also have quite a number of highly skilled graphic designers and desktop publishers at our service. With their experience, knowledge and expertise, our team can help the person get the job done on any DTP typesetting project.
Artwork and Graphic Design
The artwork and graphic design services provided by Crystal Hues make sure that every job looks like content created by established visual content professionals rather than just textual content. If you are specifically looking for getting quality graphics created, our company is there to design something keeping your unique need in mind. Our creative team of designers and artists has the creative ability to create attractive four-colour artwork based on photographs, graphics and books provided to us.
The graphics team hired by our company is professional and understands the power of visual media and makes the most of it. We are also into designing high-quality creative images, which can easily improve the readers' visual experience. Some of the projects undertaken by our company include:
Some of the projects undertaken by us include:
- Creative illustrations
- Medical illustrations
- Situational and cartoon art
- Image creation, assembling and manipulation
- Children's art
- Image redrawing, relabeling and masking
- Technical drawings
- Disk processing
- Art touch up
- Cover design
- Colour correction
- Resolution improvement
Content Conversion
We can successfully transform millions of pages of electronic and printed material into flexible, searchable digital assets. During this process, our company puts to use the expertise garnered by our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to ensure that all the deliverables are quickly met.
During the procedure we also simplify all the baffling and conflicting file formats so that the existing content is completed in a proper format using abstracting, indexing and tagging in order to produce new value and new subscribers.
Crystal Hues also has the required comprehension and capability to bring to the table precious content that could be put to good use. Irrespective of how voluminous the paper-based content is, Crystal Hues has the necessary infrastructure to breathe new life and wide accessibility through digitalization.
Standard input media include:
- Printed materials
- Microfiche and microfilm
- Application files
- Content databases
Our company also provides rapid content conversion / document conversion to all media types including:
- eBooks
- Websites
- XML/HTML
- CD-ROMs and more
Project Management Services
Often unreasonable deadlines, low-valued tasks, expensive resources and labour disputes can hamper the growth and efficiency of any project. Crystal Hues has all the necessary expertise to provide project management services in order to streamline the whole production procedure for various publishers and organizations.
Our project management experts also successfully enhance the sequence of activities with dexterity required to create, manage and distribute information within the organization, which can go a long route in optimizing the creation of attractive and useful products and services.
Some of project management services we render include:
- Product Management and Co-ordination
- Communicating and managing clients
- Scheduling and follow-ups to meet deadlines
- Coordinating page corrections
- Tracking manuscripts and page proofs
- Monitoring the change in publishing cost
- Cast off
- Reporting status
