In all future digitally projected image competitions the club will be using a new piece of software called Film Free Projection. For this to work at all its best, all entrants need to add certain pieces of meta data to their picture files once they have sized the file correctly.
The sizing remains the same as before. All landscape pictures should be 1400 pixels by 1050 pixels. If you have a cropped a landscape image, please extend the canvas size so it fits these dimensions. All portrait pictures should have a maximum height of 1050 pixels. Please extend the canvas size to fit 1400 pixels by 1050 pixels. A simple 1 or 2 pixel white stroke around the image and a black canvas extension looks good..
Having prepared your images, title them as you want them in the programme but add your competition number at the end. Nowsave them as flattened JPEGs in a separate folder;if you right mouse click on the image/ file this will bring up the file menu. Choose the last item – Properties and then left mouse click on Summary (vista calls it Details) at the top of the box.
In the author section, key in the title and then your name. Under subject you can put the competition number and year or the title of the theme. Leave keywords and comments blank unless you want to add something for your personal records. (Make sure that the Simple options is the one being displayed. It is the normal default.)
When you are finished click the Apply button and then OK.
When the files are submitted, simply name the files with your competition number and with a, b, c to denote preference order. If the meta data is in place there will be no need to add the titles in the email.
Please note that when we display the top scoring images in the future we will display the names of the authors automatically.
