[NJARC] Broadcaster Photos - Just a Suggestion

[Owen Gerboth]

HI Marv,
               Very good suggestion on the photo's. Though I never sent 
anything in as far as photo's go. I will in the future if I took any at the 
event's. Actually I did at the radio clinic. Anyway have you snet out the 
broadcaster yet? I haven't seen it.

Owen
opgerboth at gmail.com


----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:00 PM
Subject: [NJARC] Broadcaster Photos - Just a Suggestion


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>     Thanks for all the help with this month's Broadcaster - great articles
> by Al Klase and Dave Sica, help with the Clinic article by Phil Vourtsis, 
> John
> Ruccolo, etc. and photo input for the "free stuff" layout.  I take a 
> little
> pride in the total product...from beginning to end...but this month's 
> hardcopy
> was somewhat lacking.  Reason was that I had to print the pdf version 
> where the
> photos don't come out as crisp and clear as that from the Publisher 
> version.
>     The reason for being forced to use the pdf version was that the
> Publisher version was huge (over 220 Meg) and it overloaded the Kinko 
> server.  The
> reason that the file was so huge was that the photos I used from my "cub"
> reporters were high resolution, 8 x 12 behemoths.  May I make the 
> following
> suggestion:
>     Although we have many beautiful people in our club, I have no
> expectations of printing to paper the majority of photos I take for club 
> events.  They
> won't wind up on my dresser or line the stairwell to the second floor of 
> my
> house.  That's why I use the low resolution, 5 x 6 setting on my 
> camera...jpeg
> size winds up at about a couple of hundred K.  I was once admonished for
> suggesting to people that I dictate photo size, especially since "it was a 
> huge
> endeavor to set on a digital camera."  However, last time I tried it (on 
> the
> cheapest camera I could find), it took me about 15 seconds in the camera's 
> menu to
> set the picture size and resolution.
>     So to all my friends who have or intend to help me with the 
> Broadcaster
> in the future, could you please try to limit photo size and resolution 
> when
> taking photos of club events.  In the long run, it also cuts down on the 
> time it
> takes to actually produce the Broadcaster.  Each time I save the file when 
> I
> create and add articles and photos, on a file this large, it takes a 
> couple of
> extra minutes and I can't move betwen pages as fast as I would like to.
>     Actually, there is a resolution...Photo Shop can reduce file size. 
> But
> this is time consuming for me and I don't want to spend the club's money 
> on
> the program.  If you care to do this BEFORE YOU SEND ME THE PHOTO, this 
> would
> also be appreciated.
>     Again, this is just a suggestion from your friendly Broadcaster editor
> and I don't want to force anyone to do anything they would prefer not to 
> do.
> But please consider it in the spirit of producing the best product 
> possible.
>
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