@Stevo7682 - happy to send you the full logo set which comprises several different image formats and variations (for dark or light images). Want me to send them to the email address associated with your Zorg account?
Your thoughts guys.
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Love a good calendar. I have a store of photos from our resident Z4 photo guru of rolling road shots. Could make a few years worth of calendars. Don’t think we’ll ever be short of photos.
Apologies everyone - Am currently dealing with many issues. Simply don't have the time or headspace to help this year.Hi everyone Lynne and I were talking last night and the subject of calendars came up .
As some of you know I put together the 2020 Zroadster calendar last minute last year as it was about to not happen but I only achieved this as @Redline Ian had already done all the work with the pictures narrowing the suitable images and adding the forum logo to them all I really did was find a supplier send off the files ian had sent and sorted distribution.
Ian has told me a bit about why certain pictures don't work on a calendar size due to size and format and other things now I do cars for a living don't know the first thing about sorting the images properly.
So the first thing is shout out your thoughts on here as to whether there is enough interest to pursue this for a 2021 calendar.
Secondly if anyone has the knowledge and a bit of time spare to help with the editing please pm me .
If there is enough interest by forum members to purchase a calendar then we will discuss what is actually going to be in it so no pictures on this thread please can we keep the discussion just now to whether to have a calendar next year or not.
Thanks guys Stephen 🗓🗳🗳
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Hi - great thread and great ideas. I can help with some editing of pics if need be? Also I tend to make pics that I post smaller and I guess others do too in order to put them on the forum. So if any of mine get picked (feel free to vote for me for November 
) I can definitely provide a higher res pic 
) I can definitely provide a higher res pic 
The pictures need to be high resolution for print, ie 300dpi (72dpi is OK for the web). Preferably in JPEG format. Hopefully the car owners would have originals that can be sent over. As to the logo, that is simply applied in photoshop or some similar program.
It is best to create a template in something like InDesign and populate that.
The finished files can then be sent to the printer of choice.
It is best to create a template in something like InDesign and populate that.
The finished files can then be sent to the printer of choice.
Sorry I'm unable to help directly this year. Here's some points from my experience over recent years.
I have a logo file that is resized for the A3 sized prints. It just needs to be added in a new layer and then positioned absolutely in the frame depending on which corner is used. The logo has both white and black text layers. I can provide the details including x/y pixel positions that I have used if it help whoever does the layout.
If you edit and crop the image in the right aspect ratio for the finished layout and then resize it for 300dpi all using a non destructive file format (TIFF or similar- not JPEG) and only output the final image in JPEG you will retain the detail. Keep opening and saving in JPEG will create increasing amounts of JPEG artefacts the image quality will suffer.
I used to use a photo-resize application to increase the size of images that were too small for the A3 print (that is most - you need a high resolution image to be able to down-sample). The app I used to use is no loner supported in 64bit OS unfortunately. Photoshop will do this upscale but the algorithm isn't the best available. TIFF or PSD (Photoshop) format A3 images are huge file sizes - potentially 100MByte+ per file. Can be slow to load and save and needs good amount of memory in your pc/laptop to cope.
The final output image needs to be exactly right for the printer to use. If you don't provide that they will either crop your image or leave un-needed space around your image. That said - check how they print provided images. If they bleed the image outside the printed area, you will have to account for this. That said, most internet based printers I guess will print your image right to the edge of sheet as far as is possible.
It all sounds complicated but, once you have the recipe, it is just repeating the process (or using automation if you can). I hope the care and attention to the workflow I have used has produced good quality calendars that people have enjoyed.
Ask for a draft print if possible.
Who ever does the formatting - let me know if you need any support.
