Re: MCM - Digest V1 #461

["Mary McCaw" <marymccaw@mediaone.net>]

Hi, everyone,

I wanted to let you know all know that the next TAG will be sent out next
Tuesday first class with contest and conference information.

No. 3 for the year will be out in September, so if anyone has anything for
me, the sooner the better.

I have set the deadline for No. 4 as November 17th which is the Wednesday
before Thanksgiving.  I can allow few days grace, say to the following
Monday.  But anything that is submitted later than Monday, Nov. 26th will
have to wait until the first issue of 2002.  You may recall that last year
there were various problems with Vol. 13 No. 4, and I had to spend a lot of
time working on TAG in the month of December when I would much rather have
been spending time with my children.

As for the contest results and pictures, a decision needs to be made
concerning how many and which particular pictures to print.  The publisher
prefers all pictures to be in either a Gif or Tif file.  When I have scanned
pictures for the cover, I have saved them in a Tif file.  All the color
pictures we submit to the publisher need to be at least 200 - 300 dpi, and
they prefer 500 - 600.  Black and white pictures should be 500 - 600 dpi.

Personally, I was disappointed about the size of last year's contest photos,
but given the quality of the pictures we had to work with, it was the best
we could do.

It seems to me that we have the following choices:  (1) print all the
pictures regardless of the quality like we did last time; (2) publish only
higher resolution photos that will print well; (3) not publish any pictures
at all and let them be viewed only on the web site.  I am not personally
invested in any of the above and will gladly do whatever the SC decides.

The time to start thinking about all this is now because November will be
here before we know it.

Mary