Topeka Camera Club

It’s that time again and Scott Udey gave a great pre­sen­ta­tion at this month’s meet­ing about the require­ments for enter­ing your pho­tos into the monthly N4C pho­tog­ra­phy contests.

Each pho­to­graph should be saved as a JPG and can be no larger than 1024 pix­els on any one dimen­sion.  So the max­i­mum size is 1024-by-1024.  How­ever, any side can be smaller than 1024, ie 1024-by-600 or 515-by-1024.  Scott gave a pre­sen­ta­tion on using both Pho­to­Shop and Pho­to­Shop Ele­ments to prop­erly resize your pho­tos.  Dur­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion we dis­cov­ered that using the “Save for Web” option will change the color palette of your photo for com­pat­i­bil­ity with web browsers… and that could change the col­ors in your photo.  So it’s best to use the “Save as” option instead so that the orig­i­nal cam­era palette is used.

The size of your file can be no more than 500k bytes (512,000 bytes).

And the file should be prop­erly named, for example:

01,TA001,DN,FlowerBloom.jpg

The “01” is a place­holder for Scott so that he can give it a proper file num­ber if/when it’s sub­mit­ted to the N4C.  The “TA001” should be your TCC account num­ber.  If you don’t know what yours is, please con­tact Scott.  The “DN” is the cat­e­gory you are enter­ing in (DN = Nature, DJ = Jour­nal­ism, DP = Pic­to­r­ial, DC = Cre­ative).  And finally include the name of your photo. You can include spaces, but Scott’s expe­ri­ence is that space have caused issues in the past.  It’s crit­i­cally impor­tant that each part is sep­a­rated by com­mas (,) and not periods.

If you are unsure about any­thing, don’t hes­i­tate to ask ques­tions.  Our Flickr forum is a great place to post your pic­ture and get com­ments from our mem­bers on how to improve your pho­tos, or even some tips on what set­tings to use in your cam­era to get that per­fect shot.