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Gregath Publishing e-zine
Volume 4, Number 2 - Photo Issue!!
February, 2005
Helping writers, genealogists and computer users of all kinds
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Please note that while an effort to generalize much of this text has been made, some references to "we, our, etc." still occur and much of the information provided applies to The Gregath Publishing Company and may not with other printer/publishers. ALWAYS double check with your printer/publisher on every detail.
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Table of Contents
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What's It
Mean?
Design Inspiration
Book Manufacturing Concepts
Marketing Advice
Genealogy Ideas
Computer Help
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What's It Mean?
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Photo (picture) page(s): Any page that includes a photo in the manuscript.
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For other writing, printing, publishing,
marketing lingo, check our glossaries at
http://www.gregathcompany.com/gloss.html
and
http://www.gregathcompany.com/glosswrite.html
Run across a word that you don't
understand? Try us - email us your
word, term or phrase and we will see if we can shed some light on the matter!
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Design Inspiration - Photo thoughts
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The author, will be the person with the final say as to what goes into the printed book. While many families would love to see every photo available in print, this is rarely economical. Because of this, the author may have some major decisions on what "makes the cut". Final decisions should include not only the quality and subject of the photograph, which may effect the tone of the picture page, but also who is in the photo. Economically, printed photographs will be black and white. Since not everyone has an eye for what color photos will look like in black and white, the author may get an idea by converting it. They can either digitize it and change the color file to gray scale, or place the photo on a b/w copy machine. A color picnic picture in a sun dappled glade may seem perfect in composition, tone, and quality, but may not be a very good black and white.
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This section is drawn from information online at
http://www.gregathcompany.com/udo.html
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Book Manufacturing Concepts - Include all your photos
in a hybrid "printed" book.
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For the author that would also love to see every photo available in print - a book with accompanying CD may be the answer. Select the "cream of the crop" to be printed into the actual book. The CD - which can be attached to the book via envelope or spindle - can contain a wealth of digital information. Photos galore and/or original document scans, GEDCOM files, author notes on theories, etc.
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This section is drawn from information online at
http://www.gregathcompany.com/udo.html
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Marketing advice
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Include a photograph with any mailings (especially electronic): can be an action shot of the author writing or selling, or a special one from the book. If the book is already published, it could even be a "beauty shot" of the book itself. Make sure to caption the photograph. If it is from the book and the promotional material doesn't address the photograph, the caption can be a bit longer to make sure you tie the photo to the book.
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This section is drawn from information online at
http://www.gregathcompany.com/service/marketing.html
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Genealogy ideas
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Consider making digital copies of all photos. This can be accomplished by scanning or taking digital photos of the photographs. This way they can be filed and shared more easily. Also, for identifying help, once they are digitized, they can be submitted online to http://www.deadfred.com for help, etc.
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Computer aid?!? - Color photos in black and white
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Wonder what a color photograph would look like as a black and white print? No need to wonder! Digitize your photograph with the method of your choice (scan or take a digital photo of it). Open the graphics program of your choice (MS Paintbrush, Photoshop, PrintArtist, etc.) and look around in the different menus. Open your color photograph file. Most, if not all, graphics programs will have an area that shows your color photograph as color (or RGB, CYMK, etc.). In or near this notation there will be a way to change it to gray scale. For computer beginners a quick way to define Gray scale (computer speak) for "black and white photograph", while black and white options will drop out all gray tones and convert color to either black or white. Choose gray scale and read and answer any computer dialog boxes that come up carefully (such as "do you want to discard color data"). Remember as long as you don't save your changes over the original file, you can try almost anything without loosing your original file. Once the photo is "black and white" (gray scale) you'll know if it will look good, bad, or OK in b/w print. You can save this file over the original color or "save as" a different name, etc.
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E-mail us. We may be
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