Woodie Flowers

[Tanner]

Hi all,

I was about to upload our Woodie Flowers award, but I'm a bit confused on what they want for images and just want to do everything right.

On the submission form, it asks for four images to be '5"x4" 100 dpi resolution. In all the documents I've read, we can add six images with a total combined size of 1 MB.

Which is it?

Thanks
-Tanner

[Cynette]

We are checking as well. I have some very frustrated submitters at this point!

[ebarker]

For you PC users with MS Office, right click on the photo of interest and "Open with Microsoft Office Picture Manager".

At the top click edit and you can click 'resize' and 'crop' settings.

Make the photo 500x400 and you are set.

And next year they need to fix this size limitation problem. C'mon we are supposed to be high tech people. I don't know why this limitation is there.

[Tanner]

What annoys me is that pasting our submission into the text area removes all the formatting of paragraphs and won't save that. Looks very icky like that.

-Tanner

[Cynette]

The students aren't as troubled by the photo size as they are the number of photos. The Rules say 6 the entry accepts 4. When you've fallen in love with 6 photos, picking yor best 4 is hard to do.

And the formatting (or lack of) issues don't surprise me, since the Chairman's did the same thing.

[AnibaS]

Originally Posted by Cynette

The students aren't as troubled by the photo size as they are the number of photos. The Rules say 6 the entry accepts 4. When you've fallen in love with 6 photos, picking yor best 4 is hard to do.

And the formatting (or lack of) issues don't surprise me, since the Chairman's did the same thing.

We were surprised when we saw that too! But I guess there were discrepancies this year, just like with the character limit :\

[Tanner]

Originally Posted by AnibaS

We were surprised when we saw that too! But I guess there were discrepancies this year, just like with the character limit :\

Heh. I found it interesting that our essay was 572 words (3,215 characters). Confused how they came up with the limit, perhaps we need to write using bigger words?

-Tanner

[AnibaS]

Haha, yea I wonder how they came up with the character/word limit ratio too...a list of the longest words in the dictionary? Our essay was originally over 900 words, and still under the character limit

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by AnibaS

Haha, yea I wonder how they came up with the character/word limit ratio too...a list of the longest words in the dictionary? Our essay was originally over 900 words, and still under the character limit

If my memory from middle school typing class serves, a "word" for the purposes of determining typing speed is defined as 5 keystrokes. Not sure if that was scientifically determined or just decided... (I'm banking on more likely just decided)

[AnibaS]

5x600 is about 3000 characters and then plus spacing still doesn't seem to add up to 6000...it'd be interesting to learn how they determine their numbers though!