[Leica] To Answer Jeff Moore's Question about Pixels for the LUG Yearbook Images

[jshul at comcast.net (Jim Shulman)]

Here's what I found when I moused over the two image areas:

Left Page: 2888 pixels width by 2475 pixels height.  Container size 9.6 wide
by 8.2 high inches.
Right Page: 2271 pixels width by 1588 pixels height.  Container size 7.5
wide by 5.3 high inches.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Moore
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 5:42 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten 2008 LUG Yearbook Submissions so far...

And...

  I found this in the Blurb FAQs:

    BookSmart takes the guesswork out of image sizing. When you mouse
    over an image container, a tool tip will automatically pop up
    specifying the preferred image size in pixels.

  Jim, any chance you could report back the exact numbers BookSmart's
  tool tip suggests for the left-page and right-page image containers in
  the template you're using?  That'd, well, take the guesswork out of
  image sizing.  And I'd shut up and send you my damned pictures.

And...

  For those who wish to soft-proof, and see their pictures through the
  lens of the profile of the HP printers presumably still used by Blurb,
  here's that profile:

    http://www.bonsai-photography.com/

  Here's some discussion:

 
http://blog.blurb.com/index.php/2007/03/16/tips-on-how-to-synchronize-your-c
olor/


2008-12-04-17:16:41 Jeff Moore:
> Okay, so...  please pardon me if this has already been covered, but I
> haven't been able to find a reference in traffic so far.
> 
> Is this year's book laid out just like last year's?
> 
> If so, that'd mean:
> 
>   - big, up-to-full-bleed image on the left (first) page of our pair,
>     max 9-1/2" wide, max 7-15/16" high
> 
>   - smaller available image area on the right because of captioning for
>     poth photos below;  image space apparently max 7-1/2" wide, max
>     5-1/8" high, surrounded by a border approx 1/16" high.
> 
> How close to right is that this time?
> 
> I'd like to get it right because clearly this affects both how we scale
> images, but particularly it affects which image we choose to request
> that you place in each position -- some pictures work okay small, others
> don't.
> 
> I'm also assuming that the requirement that images be supplied to you
> already converted into the sRGB colorspace hasn't changed.  Getting that
> right made a huge difference for my pictures between the first and
> second years -- the first year I supplied pictures in (and tagged as) a
> wide-gamut space like Adobe '98 pr ProPhoto, assuming the Blurb software
> would to the correct and optimal conversion...  but it just ignored
> colorspace tagging and treated the image data like sRGB.  My stuff was
> a little muddy that year.  So I don't want any of us to make that
> mistake this time!
> 
> Thanks...
> 
>   - Jeff
> 
> 
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