$100 for your Disney Vacation Photos!!

[T.E. Yeary]

The Timeshare Store, Inc. will be publishing a new brochure shortly. We thought it would be fun to use the photos taken at Walt Disney World and the DVC properties by the DISboard members for our publication. If your photo or photos are selected they will be published in our brochure along with your name as the photographer. We will also send you $100 for each photo published along with the brochure showing your photographic skills.

Send your favorite digital photos on a disc to:

The Timeshare Store, Inc.
5430 Central Florida Parkway
Orlando, Florida 32821

Please include information as to the location in each picture along with your name, address, e-mail, DISboard name, and phone number in case we have any questions concerning the pictures themselves.

We will NOT be able to return the disc to you, so make sure it's a copy of your favorite pictures and not the original.

Your disc must be received in our office by June 15, 2006. _______________________________________________________________

I have been so impressed with the photos taken by our board members that it seems only fair that others can enjoy your vacation fun and photo skills.

Sincerely,
Tom Yeary
Owner/Broker

 

[LIFERBABE]

Im In!!

What a great Offer Tom!

Now I can put my Paparazzi skills to good use!

 

[T.E. Yeary]

I know it's just a short time to get these in but we want to go to press ASAP!! That also means you get your money ASAP!!

Thanks,
Tom

 

[disneyeveryyear]

Tom,

Would you be able to accept submissions from e-mail also?

I have a couple of great shots to send, but don't have any CDs handy right now.

 

[T.E. Yeary]

The graphic artist that does the designing informed me that she will only use from a disc because of the "resolution"! I'm not a photographer so I don't quite understand it all so I'm just passing along what she told me would work well for the publication.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[cyiland]

Tom - Your graphics artists is feeding you a line... a high-resolution image on a disc is indentical to the same high resolution image submitted via email. My only thought is that she has a slow Internet connection (unimaginable!), requiring a long download time for high-resolution images... ???

The graphic artist that does the designing informed me that she will only use from a disc because of the "resolution"! I'm not a photographer so I don't quite understand it all so I'm just passing along what she told me would work well for the publication.

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Caskbill]

Tom, Cyiland is correct. For digital images, the resolution has absolutely nothing to do with the 'media' used, be it on a CD disk, a DVD, Flash Drive, E-mail, or even on digital tape. Your graphic artist is simply looking for CD's as being more 'convenient'.

You might consider accepting e-mail submissions to one of your office staff who then could transfer the images to a CD for your graphic artist. You might be able to get more submissions that way. You could define the desired photo 'size' (in pixels), and photo resolution. If 50 people e-mail you 3 photos each, they could all be put on a single CD for your G.A. to evaluate. The additional work on your staff would be to keep a record of which photos came from which person. If you went this route, that might get you 150 photos to review that you wouldn't get otherwise.

You might also ask your G.A. what the minimum acceptable resolution is. It is usually described as pixels per inch, not to be confused with image size which is pixels wide by pixels high.

 

[T.E. Yeary]

Thanks Cyliland and Caskbill. I'll send this to her. I'm behind on my work as my computer is fading in and out, so bear with me if the answers don't come as quickly as you'd like.

Tom

 

[T.E. Yeary]

This is the reply from my graphic designer.

The minimum acceptable resolution should be at least 200 DPI for print
> - 300 DPI would be ideal.

I sure hope this means something to you because it's greek to me.

We will only use those shots that come to us on a disc. We want to be able to make sure credit goes to the right person and this will be a help to us.

I really do thank you for the interest you've shown in our "contest". My biggest problem will be deciding which photos to use. I've seen some of your work and must say, "I was impressed!"

Tom

 

[Caskbill]

DPI means Dots Per Inch and refers to printed material, not necessarily to digital material.

For example a laser printer may have a resolution of 300 dpi, while an ink-jet printer may have a resolution of 150 dpi. Today's lasers will easily do 600 dpi. For a printing device, the higher the dpi it can do, the better. DPI are also used for scanners, and the higher the number, the greater resolution it can 'capture' of the scanned image.

For digital media the more common and correct term is ppi or pixels per inch.

DPI is also used for computer screen monitors, but in this case, the lower the number the better.

 

[T.E. Yeary]

Thanks! That certainly clears that up.

Caskbill, I know you mean well but you are dealing with a very mechanically challenged much older man. It took me 6 months to learn the features on my TV remote. My computer skills, well we've mentioned that before too. I'm sure many of the DISers will soak up that info like a sponge. You should probably write me off as a lost cause.
All I can say to my DIS friends is SEND THE PICTURES!!!

 

[LakeAriel]

DPI means Dots Per Inch and refers to printed material, not necessarily to digital material.

For example a laser printer may have a resolution of 300 dpi, while an ink-jet printer may have a resolution of 150 dpi. Today's lasers will easily do 600 dpi. For a printing device, the higher the dpi it can do, the better. DPI are also used for scanners, and the higher the number, the greater resolution it can 'capture' of the scanned image.

For digital media the more common and correct term is ppi or pixels per inch.

DPI is also used for computer screen monitors, but in this case, the lower the number the better.

OK so how does one get a photograph or digital picture on a disk?

 

[T.E. Yeary]

This is an "un-educated" guess. Put the digital picture on your computer, then transfer it to a blank cd.

Caskbill, would you please help???

Thanks,
Tom

 

[LakeAriel]

If a CD is acceptable I think I can do that through Kodak easyshare...Thanks!

 

[Caskbill]

This is an "un-educated" guess. Put the digital picture on your computer, then transfer it to a blank cd.

Caskbill, would you please help???

Thanks,
Tom

Sorry for the delay, but I've been off-line for a few days.

A digital picture in your digital camera is stored just like any other computer 'file'. In most cases it has an extension of .jpg, but other photo format files are also used. The digital picture from your camera is downloaded to your computer, usually using some type of software that came with the camera.

If the photo is saved under some other type of format other than .jpg, then there are programs that can 'convert' the image to a format you want to use. Think of it as similar to converting an old Lotus Word-Perfect document to a Microsoft Word document. In many cases, you just load the photo into your photo software program, then use the Save-As command to save it into a different format. For Tom's purpose, I would think that using the .jpg format would be best. (.jpg was originally .jpeg and stood for 'joint photographic experts group' which developed the original specification.

Unfortunately some, such as Kodak, will use their own format and therefore need to be converted.

The final step is to just copy the 'file' to a CD and you're done.

For a photograph, taken using regular film, you would have to scan the finished photo using a scanner. In this case you would want to use the highest resolution you can, but you will still lose some detail, depending on the quality of the scanner used. Some scanners can scan the negative into the computer and then create a finished positive image from that. Some will also scan slides using a special holder and extremely high resolution so that a larger image can be made from the scan.

It's also possible, if you have a digital camera, to photograph the 'photo' itself. It can take some time to get it just right as you'll have to play with the lighting a little so not to get any reflections. Once set up, this is much quicker than scanning photos. I've used this technique for some of the videos (EG Wedding Videos) that starts with a slide show of lots of old photos of everyone.

Hope this helps.
Bill

 

[T.E. Yeary]

Thanks Caskbill! I knew you'd have the right answers.

Tom

 

[Barb0829]

i mailed ours on sat. so hopefully you should have received them by now.
thanks

 

[m1ckeym0use1]

Tom,

I'm very curious how the contest has worked out. Can you give us an idea how many submissions you've received, and when you expect to notify those whose pictures you'll be using?

thanks!

 

[T.E. Yeary]

I don't honestly know how many have come in. I'm going out of town next week so the decision on the pictures will be made the last week of June and will go directly to the graphic artist for inclusion in the brochure. After proofing, it goes directly to the printer. Keeping this in mind, the brochure could come to us and to the lucky winners as early as July 15th. As soon as it's ready I will be happy to let everyone know by announcement.

Thanks to everyone who entered our special contest!

Sincerely,
Tom

 

[dairyou]

I just saw this post. Is it too late to send my photo?

Deb