Article: CMON Annual 2008 is a go!!!!

[Jericho]

At 300 DPI they would still be a bit over 2.5\" wide. Should be fine for one of the pages with multiple images. If you mean 600 pixels tho (the max size Coolmini allows to upload) then they would be pretty tiny and might be too small for printing. Especially if they aren\'t cropped close to the mini... empty space and small dimensions would be a bad thing.

 

[Ritual]

Originally posted by jarhead

Orginal gepostet von borg
I know there must be endless questions. To answer a few.

1) Not sure if you can make a 72 dpi pic into a 300 dpi. Someone with a better knowledge of photoshop might be able to tell you.

Nope, that is not an option. Pictures which have been lowered down in their resolution can not be seized bigger. There will be a massive quality loss, because it is just making the low resolution pictures bigger.

Regards
jar

Like VPE Studios explained, yes you can. You can increase resolution from 72 to 300. What will happen is that either the picture size is also increased to maintain the physical dimensions of the image (this will lower the quality of the picture and is not desired), or the physical dimensions of the image will simply become smaller since more pixels are required per inch and the number of pixels is unchanged. So, this latter option does not alter the picture quality, only it\'s physical size.

 

[jarhead]

@Ritual
That has been something i\'ve meant i guess... thanks for correcting also to VPE studios...

So ignore my post above

Regards
jar

 

[Dragonsreach]

One question that has come to mind is what happened to the efforts of all those people who where invited to submit for the 2005 \'annual\' when nothing happened.
Are they going to be included or just forgotten in the 5 year interim.
Because I know that there are some who met the critieria who no longer are active in the modelling world.

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by Dragonsreach
One question that has come to mind is what happened to the efforts of all those people who where invited to submit for the 2005 \'annual\' when nothing happened.

LOL the miniatures that I was invited to submit for the 2005 are not even 8\'s anymore, they have crept slowly towards 7 ever since.

 

[Trevor]

like Dragonsreach said, is there no way of ressurrecting the 2005 one, pics were sent in...
Why not do the 2005 one, then a 2006-2008 one and if it all works well go annual?

 

[Avelorn]

DPI is always a confusing concept to use in this way. It is here used interchangeable with PPI which means pixels per inch which is not really the same. You will always need the print out size for it to really make sense. I won\'t dwell on this discussion but you can find more info on wikipedia.

I think it\'s easier for people to understand to just give the minimum resolution like. Your images needs to be at least 1632x1224 (2MP) that would at 300ppi give a printing size of (if my math serves me right) 5,44x4,1 inch which should be more then sufficient. If you want larger close ups you will of course need larger resolutions.

 

[borg]

I am getting my degree in graphic design so if you need help on future annuals let me know

Now you tell me...

One question that has come to mind is what happened to the efforts of all those people who where invited to submit for the 2005 \'annual\' when nothing happened.

I would love to, but the pics were not sent to me, blame the person who was supposed to lay it out and didn\'t finish.

Lets try to get this one done, and we can always back paddle to get the old ones done if there is interest.

 

[Ritual]

Wouldn\'t it be a rather massive, and expensive, book if it covered three years? I\'d hate for it to only cover, say, 9+ minis in order to keep the volume down.

Isn\'t it better to keep the annual principle and get a good publication for 2008? And hope it really becomes annual after this.

 

[borg]

Trust me, it is not for the lack of trying. Like I said before, it is not easy to get high scores on CMON, you all know that. And people should be featured for that reason alone. We just had some really bad luck when it comes to getting people to lay it out. But I think I got that covered this time and once I get 2008 done, we should have no problem getting future ones done.

 

[GRYTZ]

Hi Borg
I just would like to know that this invitation to annual is only for painters or maybe for other activity (modellers, sculptors, designers)people. Just ask

 

[borg]

An invitation has been sent to ANYONE who has submitted from January 1st 2008 to December 31st 2008 with a score of 8.0 or over, can be anything, sculpt, paintjob, terrain, whatever it may be.

 

[Routaporsas]

I\'m taking some new (and lager) photos, but for some reason they just aren\'t 300dpi even though they are like 2048x1536 and some even larger.

And now I found this article:
http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/mythdpi.html

http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2006/07/what-the-heck-does-300-dpi-really-mean.html

The Horrible DPI Mistake Here\'s the scenario - a print shop/graphics designer/magazine asks a client for a photo at 300 dpi. They wish to print it out at 5\" x 7\". The client already has a beautiful digital photo with pixel dimensions of 2048 x 1536. The client notices that the photo editing software is showing that the photo is set to 72 dpi. So, following orders, the client types in 300 to reset the dpi to 300. In doing so the image is resampled and is enlarged over 4 times to pixel dimensions of 8533 x 6400. The client sends this enlarged 300 dpi photo. The print shop/graphics designer/magazine reject it (too grainy, too colour blotched). The client is crushed. The sad thing is that the client already had the perfect photo (2048 x 1536 @ 72 dpi) which would have been beautifully printed at 5\" x 7\" (at 292.6 PPI). The print shop/graphics designer/magazine didn\'t know what they really wanted

I mean, shoul I just send tohose pictures that have 200-250 dpi or what ???

 

[Ritual]

Read what VPE Studios wrote above. You can change resolution without changing the numbers of pixels (enlarging the picture size, in pixels, is what made the picture quality worse in the example you quoted).

 

[No Such Agency]

Originally posted by Trevor
like Dragonsreach said, is there no way of ressurrecting the 2005 one, pics were sent in...
Why not do the 2005 one, then a 2006-2008 one and if it all works well go annual?

Because it\'s a herculean effort to get one of these things out, let alone \"catching up\" with a whole extra one? I\'m not too chuffed that my one chance to get in the CMON annual was deep-sixed by there being no CMON annual... but it\'s hardly the biggest of life\'s disappointments.

 

[atacam]

Well I too got an invite for 2 entries. Allbeit one of them can not be used as it was submitted this year. But I shall get pics sorted of my little red riding hood.

 

[Count Zero]

Im wondering why i didnt get an email Nobody wants me

 

[A Luna]

I know how big the pages will be, but how bix should your pictures maximum be in pixels? 2400 wide or something? Thanks

 

[Ritual]

Originally posted by Count Zero
Im wondering why i didnt get an email Nobody wants me

Have you checked your spam filter? Could be that emails have been sorted as spam...

 

[Bexley]

Originally posted by Routaporsas
I\'m taking some new (and lager) photos, but for some reason they just aren\'t 300dpi even though they are like 2048x1536 and some even larger.

I mean, shoul I just send tohose pictures that have 200-250 dpi or what ???

Sort of. I think Borg wants the image processing to be simpler on the graphic designer. Just follow the instructions I gave- in that excerpt you posted, the client did what I described, but left \"Resample Image\" checked. If you uncheck it before resizing, you\'ll see that the \"size\" in inches will change (a 2048x 1536 pixel image will go from about 28.4\"x21.3\" to about 6.82\"x 5.12\") though the size in pixels will stay the same.