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*Click on the thumbnails for full size photo. *One vote per category. *One vote for Overall Sign of the Month. *Voting closes Oct.14th. *Votes accepted to jonsigns@icr.com.au
If the artists who entered A4 and D5 can send larger photos to me, I'll be happy to use them. Those two photos were tiny. 600 pixels wide would be great.
[ October 02, 2005, 02:47 AM: Message edited by: Don Coplen ]
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Thanks for posting these Don. You must have stayed up all night!
The format makes things so much easier to select from. And it saves me heaps of time to post individual pics.
Well, another great month of entries. Thanks to all who contributed. If your pic is not here, don't dispair ... try again. The competition was tough in some categories. Especially the 3d. Very hard to choose just six there.
The new category E (design,layout,business cards) also proved popular. Excellent stuff.
Please vote for an OVERALL WINNER. I know it's hard because of the talent in each category, but try. We need more votes overall.
I will post the results on the 15/16th October.
In the meantime ... start sending in entries for October! "We's onna roll" !!!!!!
[ October 02, 2005, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: Jon Butterworth ]
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We got a few postage stamp photos this month.
I'd like to request that for future contests, please supply images at 600 pixels and 72dpi resolution. (600 pixels wide for horizontal format/600 pixels tall for vertical.)
If anyone in this month's contest sent a smaller image and/or can supply a better photo within the above constraints, email it to me at doncoplen@earthlink.net, and I will swap it out ...this time.
Jon and I want this contest to be as fair as possible, and part of that is supplying us with a good pic to post so that everyone is competing on a level playing field.
[ October 02, 2005, 11:16 AM: Message edited by: Don Coplen ]
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Lots of tough choices this month... and lots of great work!
My votes go as follows...
A6 B1 C4 D4 E3
Overall I would go with B1
-grampa dan
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I'm the one who sent "postage stamps" the first time & learned a few things in the process. In case it helps anyone else, here is what I learned.
Jon asked for submissions to be no larger then 60K ...so I was resizing my pics in photoshop using the image size control. The top of that box shows "pixel dimensions" in terms of a value like 60K
Anyway, the file size I ended up with when my "pixel dimension" was 60K... turned out to be only 30K... but I never noticed that, so I sent pics 166 pixels wide
I also noticed that my revised 600 pixel pics are about 90K... so I remembered Don explaining to someone on a recent thread how to "save for web" & I just checked. Without any tweaking at all, it brought that 90K down to 78K which used the jpg at Medium quality which is a setting of 60 on the quality slider. Low quality drops to 10 on the slider and produces a file size of 30K... but noticable loss of quality. When I adjusted the quality slider to 46, I could achieve exactly 60K in file size & no real loss of image quality that I could detect compared to the 90K file.
Thanks to both Jon & Don for all their work on this. I know how the time spent on processing 60 entry pics could multiply fast if we don't do things right... so I got it down now & hope my lesson will help others streamline the process for next month & thereafter.
~I loved 3 -very elegant, but A-6 is my overall pic. Too cute and creative!
~Every one of them have special redeeming qualities, but I chose B-5 because it's a great shape and beautiful use of simple but difficult copy info . . . 'R' farm?
~C-3 Love how that ol' timey look meets a contemporary look. . .
~My pick is D-5 (but I wanna OWN D-4!
~I like E-5 for it's simplicity, but E-1 knocks my socks off . . .I mean, if I was wearin' any . . .it would . . .
My favorite is D-3 because I have been trying to do a job like that for a long time... the blueprint to the finished house design. A little different, but the same concept. A-6 is great too.
Good job all!
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A2. But I think the bug is too big for my likings & I'd eliminate the ' from the tagline.
B1. Fits the shape well, classy
C1. Colorful, gives the 'kid' feeling
D3 Nice prioritization of copy & use of photo. I have no idea what the first word in the list of windows, roofing is & I have no idea what the script says. Need a bit more contrast or something there.
E6 Classy and I'm a sucker for the stuff that isn't forced into a square or rectangle. The white line through the center of the text bugs me on the squint test though.
Forgot overall: Once again, I hereby invoke my right to refuse to pick an overall. I had a hard enough time picking 1 out of each category.
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Hi Don I voted via e-mail, and I only voted for 2 Sorry first time I put my 2 cents in , and i did it wrong. So if you will delete the e-mail I sent you and use this as my first official vote in sign of the month. I would be grateful as will the other 4 i just voted for. Picks as follows A-6 B-2 C-4 D-3 E-6 OVER ALL B-2 Just has Class written all over it.
Thanks Ray
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