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Digital Image preparation guidelines
Submission deadline is the Sunday night before our meeting night. All
images should be a maximum of 1024 pixels in the horizontal dimension and
768 pixels in the vertical dimension and be in the sRGB color space.
To insure that your digital images conform to standard please follow these directions:
- Set your working space to the sRGB standard. In Photoshop, go to the
Edit/colour setting. Be sure your monitor is calibrated. We will not
make color corrections or other adjustments to the submitted digital files.
- Size your image so that the horizontal dimension is 1024 pixels or
or less and the vertical dimension is 768 pixels or less. In Photoshop,
go to Image/image size.
- Check both the resample image and constrain proportions check boxes.
- For downsampling (making the image smaller) it is suggested that
you choose the 'Bicubic Sharper' sampling algorithm.
- For upsampling (making the image larger) 'Bicubic Smoother' is
suggested. The default 'Bicubic' method is also fine.
- For a horizontal image, set pixels dimensions width only to 1024.
The height will adjust automatically.
- For a vertical or square image, set pixels dimensions height only
to 768. The width will adjust automatically.
- If either dimension is still greater than its maximum (width > 1024
or height > 768) set that dimension to the maximum value.
- Note two things:
- Do *NOT* adjust anything in the 'Document Size' group box. These
settings are for printing images and will have unwanted effects if
you adjust them at this point.
- The specified settings of 1024 and 768 are maximum values. If you
would like your image to appear smaller on the screen you may use
lower values. If you use higher values your image will overflow the
screen and be 'clipped'.
- Click OK.
Now you can sharpen your image, if necessary, suitable for digital projection.
Take care not to over-sharpen. Do not save as jpg files during editing as image
quality will be degraded. Save as a jpg file once and only after all changes
have been made.
Images should not contain text of any kind that such as a copyright or title.
Submissions are limited to 2 per member per competition. There is no restriction regarding
what categories may be entered.
- Robert Gough

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