Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Absolutely - I seem to recall it includes a mandatory $500 contribution to some charity...but wait, I'll have to fact-check that - it is next in line with Newt. Ken On 1/7/2012 7:57 PM, R. Clayton McKee wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information