Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/07

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Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number
From: rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 17:57:31 -0800 (PST)
References: <adbafb042d90f44d2dd00759fbd2e131@mail.gmail.com>

And for this we pay your outrageous fees... oh, wait.? 

n/m...


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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
>
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>


Replies: Reply from kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney) ([Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number)
In reply to: Message from jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number)