Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]my experience is that jim never crops our choices 3000 pixels wide for horizontals and 2500 pixels high for verticals should be as big as you need for maximum quality for any layout in an 8X10 book we use. set your jpegs to this size and highest quality and sRGB should maximize your results Jim is doing a huge amount of work to put this together asking him to hold our hands through the whole process is asking a lot blurb has everything we need on its help pages ric On Dec 8, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Jim, the previous books have different size images on the left page > especially. People would just like to know which page layouts you are > using. > Some produce a full bleed image and others have some space around them. If > you can just look at the book layout you intend to use and point to the > space it will give the optimum pixel sizes for people. That helps to ensure > best quality. Generally there are a number of page layout options you > choose. It also depends what setting you use when you import the photo. For > example do not crop, centre image etc. > > > 2009/12/9 Jim Shulman <jshul at comcast.net> > >> No idea--you'll have to go to www.blurb.com for details. >> I can tell you that the book is standard format, landscape orientation >> (just >> as with all the previous issues.) >> >> The image must be a jpg of at least one meg in order to reproduce >> (according >> to the little icons that blurb.com uses if the image is too small for >> reproduction). >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Jim >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul <lug-bounces%2Bjshul>=comcast.net@ >> leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Wayne >> Torry >> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:49 PM >> To: lug at leica-users.org >> Subject: [Leica] JPEG size for yearbook. >> >> I know it's buried somewhere in the archive. Maybe we need to refresh my >> mind.......... >> >> >> >> In 25 words or less, in words even I can understand, how do I format my >> JPEG files for the book? >> >> >> >> Fill in the blanks, please. >> >> >> >> DPI __________________ >> >> >> >> Left page, horizontal, long dimension in pixels _____________________ >> >> Left page, vertical, long dimension in pixels _______________________ >> >> >> >> Right page, horizontal, long dimension in pixels ____________________ >> >> Right page, vertical, long dimension in pixels ______________________ >> >> >> >> Standing by with two slides from an M5 for the 2009 Yearbook. >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> Wayne >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information