(or "Why you should be sure to read the 'Scanning Images' article in
eNAMEL vol1 no3 November 2001 & help reduce the world's total angst load" )
The following pages attempt to demonstrate why we request that images be of a particular format, state and quality level for use in the eNAMEL Gallery. If you have difficulty with some aspect of the explanation please take the time to read or reread the "Scanning Images" article. Then if you still have a specific problem not covered there, by all means email me and I'll attempt to sort it out for you.
That offer's not an open-ended invitation to debate, however. The view put to me by a number of correspondents that image quality is a relatively unimportant, subjective attribute which should be subservient to some vague good intent on their part is ludicrous nonsense.
There are many ways to produce, manipulate, store, retrieve and transmit digital images and all of them require some degree of effort on the part of the individual to acquire the skill. They are not, however, rocket science and if you can operate a microwave oven or a slot machine you can learn to use a camera (digital or analog) or a digital scanner.
In the end though it doesn't matter a rat's how or why you produce the images as long as their quality meets the simple criteria (restated in the next paragraph) of the editorial staff (i.e. me) :>D
eNAMEL subscribers can have up to 3 pieces of work, finished or "in progress", in any medium or mix of media, displayed in the Online Gallery. Please make sure your digital images are of the highest quality (equivalent to those in eNAMEL Newsletter) and email them only as .jpg files. Include a line or so of information - name, technique, materials etc - with the pictures. The service is free. Al Heywood
The images on the next pages were scanned on an inexpensive flatbed scanner with a real optical resolution of 600 x 1200 dpi. During scanning no filters or screening algorithms were applied nor was any sort of image manipulation attempted.
