messing-about.com will once again sponsor a calendar contest! The winning entry will get their image on the cover, and a free calendar. The proceeds will go towards support of messing-about.com.
How to submit an entry:I already have an entry from Larry Jacobson, who burned the image onto a CD to mail rather than email. If you want to do that, email me for the snail-mail address!
Or, email your entry to
frankhagan@ev1.netWhat can you submit?Your entry should feature some aspect of boatbuilding, enjoying home-built boats, traditional nautical subjects, sailing, and the like. Don't be afraid to submit a picture of an unfinished boat or a spectacularly interesting shop with a pile of wood soon to be a boat ... you don't have to wait until launch day to have a picture that will interest us here!
Image Details:The image size for the calendar is 11 x 8.5 inches, with a bleed to 11.5 x 9 inches (we use a black border for the bleed, as this area can be lost in trimming). Image resolution is 150 - 300 DPI. Please convert the image to PNG format (preferred) or JPG format. File sizes must be kept below 4MB for PNG format and 7MB for JPG.
For JPG files, remember not to use too much compression, as it degrades picture quality. A good tip is to print out the picture at the 11 x 8.5 inch size and see how it looks.
About "Resolution" and "DPI"
Resolution and DPI are often used interchangeably, but they are quite different.
Any digital image is composed of pixels. The pixels are the small colored square dots that can sometimes be seen when images are enlarged too much, or if you look at your screen close enough. Resolution is the number of pixels in the horizontal direction by the number of pixels in the vertical direction. For example, a picture with 1200 pixels at the horizontal direction and 2100 pixels at the vertical direction would have a resolution of 1200 x 2100 pixels (pronounced 1200 by 2100 pixels).
As you've probably noticed, nowhere in the above definition it is said what size the pixels are. This is where the DPI comes in. DPI is simply Dots Per Inch. A picture with 100 x 100 resolution would be 1 x 1 inch when printed at 100 DPI, and 100 x 100 inch when printed at 1 DPI!
There's a tradeoff. The bigger the resolution, the bigger the image is. It will take more disk space, occupy more memory when loaded, and will take longer to be transferred through the Web. On the other hand, the bigger the resolution, the better the image looks when printed. We feel it is better to wait a bit more for your photo to upload than to have a bad print at the end.
So fire up the cameras, and let's get some great pictures submitted! I'll announce the winners as soon as we have 12 great entries, in plenty of time for Christmas gift giving (I'm sure SWMBO will LOVE a picture of your messy shop!)
Oh yeah ...In submitting your picture, you are giving messing-about.com the right to use it in the 2004 messing-about in boats Calendar, but you retain all other rights to the picture. messing-about.com can use a reduced or thumbnail reproduction of that image in flash animations, HTML pages, etc. in order to market the 2004 calender, but will not use the image without your permission for anything else.
November 25, 2002, 06:10:34 PM
