Dean Romig
04-01-2012, 10:58 PM
As a reminder to those intending to submit material for inclusion in the Summer Issue of Parker Pages -
The deadline is April 15 and we hope to receive your submissions even earlier if possible. It becomes difficult to read, edit and lay out articles and stories along with their respective pictures in the short period between the 15th deadline and the date when the editor is expected to have all material to the publisher, Village Press. So please complete your submissions as early as possible.
We still do not have enough material to fill the issue so we are hoping to receive a good stream of email submissions within the next two weeks.
The preferred format for text articles and stories is in Microsoft Word but we will attempt to reformat text documents sent in other formats.
You may have noticed in some recent issues of Parker Pages that some of the pictures are extremely small and we continue to experience difficulties in attempting to enlarge these pictures but in the process of expanding them a great deal of resolution must be sacrificed. Consequently we are forced to leave them small in order to preserve their original clarity.
The following is paraphrased from Parker Pages the Winter 2009 issue, page 13 "Suggestions for Contributors to Parker Pages" by editor Austin Hogan.
Please keep in mind that some storage and editing programs compress the images as part of the editing process and some land line ISP's are unable to handle uncompressed pictures. The publisher requires 300 pixels per inch in order to print pictures in equal quality of those printed from film. The minimum dimensions of pictures for Parker ages must be 1200 X 1800 to produce the sharpness of image as a 4 X 6 inch glossy print. The dimensions must exceed this number if a cropped smaller section of an image is to be enlarged. Using Microsoft Picture Manager you can adjust the size of the image to be sent and a good scanner has the option of increasing image size as well. Generally speaking, cell phone pictures produce the least desirable picture quality but some of the very latest, high-tech phones can be capable of high quality pictures. When using inexpensive digital cameras the quality and size of the pictures to be sent must be meticulously managed.
Thank you all very much for your consideration and we look forward to your submissions.
Please send your submissions to me at;
dsromig@aol.com or Dean Romig, 78 River Street, Andover, MA 01810
Best to All,
Dean
The deadline is April 15 and we hope to receive your submissions even earlier if possible. It becomes difficult to read, edit and lay out articles and stories along with their respective pictures in the short period between the 15th deadline and the date when the editor is expected to have all material to the publisher, Village Press. So please complete your submissions as early as possible.
We still do not have enough material to fill the issue so we are hoping to receive a good stream of email submissions within the next two weeks.
The preferred format for text articles and stories is in Microsoft Word but we will attempt to reformat text documents sent in other formats.
You may have noticed in some recent issues of Parker Pages that some of the pictures are extremely small and we continue to experience difficulties in attempting to enlarge these pictures but in the process of expanding them a great deal of resolution must be sacrificed. Consequently we are forced to leave them small in order to preserve their original clarity.
The following is paraphrased from Parker Pages the Winter 2009 issue, page 13 "Suggestions for Contributors to Parker Pages" by editor Austin Hogan.
Please keep in mind that some storage and editing programs compress the images as part of the editing process and some land line ISP's are unable to handle uncompressed pictures. The publisher requires 300 pixels per inch in order to print pictures in equal quality of those printed from film. The minimum dimensions of pictures for Parker ages must be 1200 X 1800 to produce the sharpness of image as a 4 X 6 inch glossy print. The dimensions must exceed this number if a cropped smaller section of an image is to be enlarged. Using Microsoft Picture Manager you can adjust the size of the image to be sent and a good scanner has the option of increasing image size as well. Generally speaking, cell phone pictures produce the least desirable picture quality but some of the very latest, high-tech phones can be capable of high quality pictures. When using inexpensive digital cameras the quality and size of the pictures to be sent must be meticulously managed.
Thank you all very much for your consideration and we look forward to your submissions.
Please send your submissions to me at;
dsromig@aol.com or Dean Romig, 78 River Street, Andover, MA 01810
Best to All,
Dean