Hearse Book

[A.Sharpe]

I have dcided to do a Book on privately owned Hearse's. If you would like for your ride to be in the book , all I need are some good High resolution pictures of your car. I would also like a discription of the car ie: Year model ,Coach builder, and any other info yo can supply such as modifications you have performed.. Pictures must be in JPEG format. I also need a letter from you or the owner releaseing the pictures to me to be used in the book. I would like it if you can send the pictures to me on a disc labled with your name and year model of your ride. Cars will be placed in the book in random order by placeing all disc in a box and drawing them out . If you are interested in haveing your ride in this book please E-mail me at andy@sharpeknives.com , I will send you my address and we'll get this ball rolling. Let me know what you think.

[Psychoholic]

Sounds cool.

[A.Sharpe]

So far i have 3 cars . I think between 50 and 80 wwould make a great book. They don't have to be show cars. I think it would be cool to have pics of ones that are work's in progress and hear what their owners have planned for them. I can sift threw archives and find pics of hundreds of cars that are new. I want to do what people really have on the road that everyday driver car.

[LMS]

What's your time frame for putting this together?
I think this could be interesting.

[A.Sharpe]

It does take a while. With the holidays comeing I'd like to have it finished by March. 2013. I can add pages right up to the time I submit for Publishing.

[Scary Guy]

.JPEG format?

At least you didn't say .GIF I guess, but that's almost as bad.

You should use .TIFF, or at the very least .PNG/.BMP

.JPEG just has such shitty compression and artifacting

[A.Sharpe]

I have no idea what any of that means. My computer skills are almost as good as my spelling.

[Guest]

i'll probably submit mine, but i need to get some good recent pictures first

[Scary Guy]

I have no idea what any of that means. My computer skills are almost as good as my spelling.

http://www.wfu.edu/~matthews/misc/graphics/formats/formats.html

If you'd like me to explain anything further let me know, but for the tl;dr it's a quality issue. Go with .TIFF

[A.Sharpe]

The progtam I have for makeing the books recomends JPEG . So far the Books I have done came out really nice. I do appreciate the offer . I am kinda computer illiterate. Once I find something that works I tend to stay with it. Why are TIFF Better?

[Scary Guy]

Did you even look at the link? It's a lossless image file format.

[A.Sharpe]

Yes I did. I still do not see a reason to switch. You can send any format you wish. I just perfer JPEG. I had photo's submitted for the knife Guild book. Some I could not open on my computer. I know there is a way to do it, I just don't know how. Since I retired I guess I should take a class on computer's . It only took me a year to figure out how to post a picture on a forum.

[Psychoholic]

It's not just about preference, what SG is talking about is dithering and jpeg compression (that is why a 'lossless' image like a png or a tiff is going to be so much bigger, because it isn't trying to normalize relatively close pixels for blending to save space). If you are going into print with something, you want it to be as close as you can get to the original lossless picture as you can get, even if it's going in a relatively low quality printing.

I'll end up sending you some pics of my car that will be probably 5-8 meg in size, but will be as good of a quality as possible. I'm going to wait until I can take her out and shoot with a good camera to give you an image for your book.

[A.Sharpe]

Will I see a difference in the photos that will be noticeable on lets say a 5 X 7 photo. As the book is assembled these photo's will be stored in my computer, will thay take up a huge amount of space?

[chestypuller]

300dpi for print