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One question that's come up repeatedly concerns the format for submitted artwork and photographs.

There are a few guidelines to follow when submitting artwork in electronic format to be included in "Time and the River":

1)  All of the images to be printed will be stored as TIFF files.  TIFF is a lossless format well-suited for printing, and virtually every image application in the world supports it.  Also, a lot of scanners (and even a few cameras) can save their output directly as TIFF files.  When sending to us for the book, TIFF is thus preferred.

2)  Color images should be 24 bit color.

3)  The final resolution used in the book will be 300 dpi for photographic images and 600 dpi for line drawings.  The printed surface of each page in the final book will be just under five inches wide by around eight inches tall.  Thus a photographic image meant to fill the whole width of the page should be at least 5 x 300 or 1500 pixels across, and an image meant to fill the whole height of a page should be at least 8 x 300 or 2400 pixels across; line drawings will require twice those numbers, or 5 x 600 = 3000 and 8 x 600 = 4800 for width and height respectively.  Obviously, we don't know in advance how much space each image is going to get allocated, so the final image in the book may end up smaller.

There are also a few guidelines to follow when submitting artwork on paper for inclusion in "Time and the River":

1)  We can't use copies from newspapers because of both copyright and image quality considerations.

2)  We can't use photocopies or FAXes due to their lack of image quality.

3)  We'll only use reproductions if they're big enough and good enough to meet the image quality needs of the book.  Most reproductions aren't.   An original photograph a few inches across will generally be easier for us to work with than a reproduction of that photo twice its size.