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Posted by Andy Dingley on 06/26/05 14:10
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:21:30 -0400, "eddy long"
<eddylong@boloney!_NOSPAM_.net> wrote:
>I am thinking of submitting some digital images for publication.
Send a trivial (but full quality) sample to your publisher and see if
they can read it and if they're happy with it.
> Many publishers say that they "accept images in digital format *for Mac*".
This is because they're fluffy little bunnies who use Macs. They know
that PCs and Macs have compatibility issues, but they don't realise that
image files have different compatibility issues from these.
"Image files in Mac format" is basically meaningless.
>What difference does it make as far as viewing the images that I submit for
>a Mac versus a PC since I use a PC?
Not much. Unless you do something particularly obscure, then they're
compatible.
Use JPEGs, and use them as big and raw as you can get them from the
camera. We all have bandwidth these days and the post production people
at the magazine would _much_ rather reduce something big than try to
blend away pixels.
JPEGs do _not_ have quality issues unless you put them in yourself.
Excessive compression on storage, or repeatedly re-encoding them will
cause trouble, but a simple one-off save from any competent vaguely
modern piece of kit will work fine.
Avoids TIFFs. TIFF is a nasty format, full of all sorts of variables and
optional features. It's about the only graphic format around where you
can still generate a compatibility problem.
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