Submissions to the POLYinforMER
The POLYinforMER newsletter Feature articles:
- Interviews with artists 1000 words and pictures
- Guild event coverage 1000 words and pictures
Education articles will be published on the website in the POLYinforMER section.
Subjects include but are not limited to:
- Success stories by artists concerning a project
- Special recognition of an artist or group
- Reviews of new books and CD/DVDs
- Reviews of new tools or products
- Business topics
Guidelines for Article Submission
- Write your article in a word processing program.
- Be sure to include your contact information.
- Be accurate with names, places, email addresses.
- If you quote someone in your article, be sure to get their permission to use the quote.
- Attach your article to an email to the editor.
- Images for an article should be sent separately 1 at a time referencing the article in the subject line.
Guidelines for Images
The POLYinforMERneeds 300 dpi photos and graphics. Please email the editor your images as jpegs -- .jpg
Digital Camera Guidelines:
- Set the camera for the highest resolution and best quality jpeg pictures. (If you have a digital slr and prefer to take the picture in tiff, raw or your manufacturers raw equivalent, use your photo software to resample and save to a 300 dpi medium high resolution jpg.)
- Fill the frame with the object, make sure it is in focus, keep the camera still, and take the picture.
- Download
your picture to your computer and email as is. Dont use photo
software to alter the size of the file before emailing.
Film Camera or Slides:
- Use asa/iso 100 or lower film.
- Fill the frame with the object, make sure it is in focus, keep the camera still, and take the picture.
- When developing -- pick the cd option. Then email the photo as stored on the cd.
- Otherwise, scan (or have scanned) as follows:
- Scan the photo at 300 dpi and set the image size to result in output of no more than 4 for the largest dimension.
- Save the scan as a .jpg. If prompted for quality, set at 8 (medium high).
