Calendar Potentials

[F, Calla & Luca]

That time of year has come. Adina has announced info about calendar submissions which will start on Sept 1. You can post potential submissions here, ask for critiques or ask not to get any, ask for editing suggestions etc. I hope by now everyone is capable of doing simple editing by themselves. I am. Not certain anyone wants to do complex editing for others but there may be takers. The guidelines for submissions are here. Remember the actual submissions go to Adina by email.

http://www.doodlekisses.com/page/calendar-photo-requirements

If you do submit photos that don't follow the guideline parameters your photo will be tossed by Adina. But even great photos which follow all the rules may not make the calendar since the competition is stiff. Good luck to all.
PLEASE NUMBER PHOTOS!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I was wondering if we were going to have a discussion :)

[Donna K & Quincy]

Oh no, already. :>))))

Do any of you resize your pics for submission? My files last year were too large for Adina to open. I tried resizing them but it still didn't work. I think Adina finally sent the file to Camilla to resize.

[F, Calla & Luca]

No I don't resize and I never had a problem.

[Nancy and Georgia Brown]

are you sending jpgs? those shouldn't be a problem.

[Donna K & Quincy]

Yes, they're jpgs and even after I'd resized them they were too large. I think some of the problem may be with the program that Adina is using although I'm not quite sure what it is.

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

Donna, I resized (or cropped) my photos to 8.5 by 11 last year and checked to make sure the final photos were over 200 ppi -- then sent them through gmail to avoid compression. Is it really that time of year again :0

[Donna K & Quincy]

Yep, it's that time again. :>) I cropped and checked the dpi which was usually 300 but some files even cropped and resized are very different in size, I just checked a couple of photos that were the same size and one was 6MB and the other was 12MB, it seems the busier the background the bigger the file. Does that make any kind of sense?

[Cheryl and Finnegan]

Yes, I think so. Scenes with more detail have more information and require greater storage space.  Different color modes, file format, and quality settings also impact the size of the file.

Check this:

http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/27887/why-are-two-pictures...

It's your beautiful landscapes as background :))

 

[F, Calla & Luca]

It doesn't seem logical to me really. I think the complexity of the scene should not affect the size of a file since whether the pixels are the same or different they need to be recorded. But you can do an experiment with a plain background versus a busy one and compare file sizes :-)

[Nancy and Georgia Brown]

If it is a very large file you can save the jpg quality to 90 or 80 and not loose any perceptive detail yet end up with a much smaller file size. Especially for the print resolution of the calendar.
And busy files with a lot of detail will result in higher file size. The way jpg compression works is that it records changes in color, so a clear blue sky will result in a small file size where busy trees at the same resolution will be a much larger size file.

[F, Calla & Luca]

That is a good explanation. Thanks.

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

Here we go again!  I hope I can get better photos than I did last year! LOL