Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And for this we pay your outrageous fees... oh, wait.? n/m... ? R. Clayton McKee PhotoJournalist from somewhere just south of somewhere else... >________________________________ > From: Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 7:35 PM >Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number > >To order copies, use this link: > >http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2889929 > > > >A yearbook contributor alerted me to an egregious error I made with one of >his images; I?ve taken down the old version and uploaded a corrected >version of the book for all, which will now stand for subsequent orders. > > > >Some explanation may be in order: what I have not mentioned to the group, >until now, is that I made a serious error during the book?s assembly. >Rather than use the standard landscape format, I inadvertently left the >default format checked, which is the 7x7 square book.? I only noticed the >error on December 29th, but quickly realized that the smaller, square >format was not appropriate for the quality of images we collect.? Blurb >said not to worry; their software allowed me to switch formats in >mid-book.? Unfortunately, I?d been assembling the book with last year?s >software, which is not compatible with the format switch option.? That >meant that I had to reassemble the book from scratch, which took the better >part of a day.? I thought that everything was corrected, but unfortunately >I?d made a mistake with one image (when you load an image into the blurb >templates, it automatically sizes to fill the template area, and thus will >crop part of the picture.? I almost always correct this, to protect the >integrity of the original image, but in this one case during the reload I >goofed.) > > > >Glad to hear that the book?s meeting with considerable enthusiasm.? It?s >one of our better efforts! > > > >Best regards, > >Jim Shulman > >Wynnewood, PA > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >