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 Post subject: Got my first cover into the database!!
PostPosted: 26 Nov 2020, 16:22 
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Hey! I got my first cover photo accepted into the database!! :clap:

I know some might think it's a little silly for getting jazzed about such a thing, but it makes me glad to see my contribution added to the project. The cover was for Jeremiah Johnson. There's a few more LDs that I have in my collection that could fill some gaps in the database, so I better get busy!

Just an FYI, being a Linux user, I processed my photos with Fotoxx. It has some excellent tools for fixing perspectives and colour balancing.


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PostPosted: 26 Nov 2020, 17:39 
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Thanks - every cover counts :thumbup: .
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PostPosted: 26 Nov 2020, 20:36 
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Glad it got done I know Julien is going a great job but all by himself.

Hope that he got my last batch of pics, I know it will take time to upload them but just hope they went through.
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PostPosted: 27 Nov 2020, 19:31 
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Thank you for taking the time to submit a cover :thumbup:.

I'll have to check out Fotoxx. I've been using IrFanView as covered here https://www.lddb.com/help/cover/ without issues so far on Linux with Wine.
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PostPosted: 08 Dec 2020, 05:21 
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Just in case anyone is interested, I wrote a How-To on my video collecting blog on how to use Fotoxx to create covers for submission to the LDDb. There's certainly nothing wrong with Irfanview, but for those fellow Linux users who prefer to use software written for the OS, I think Fotoxx is a good alternative.

Anyway, here's a link to the article. I hope it's useful to someone.
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 Post subject: Re: Got my first cover into the database!!
PostPosted: 08 Dec 2020, 07:52 
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davidb_sk wrote:
Just in case anyone is interested, I wrote a How-To on my video collecting blog on how to use Fotoxx to create covers for submission to the LDDb. There's certainly nothing wrong with Irfanview, but for those fellow Linux users who prefer to use software written for the OS, I think Fotoxx is a good alternative.


Excellent!

Could you make the size 800x800?
400x400 is the minimum but bigger is better!

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 Post subject: Re: Got my first cover into the database!!
PostPosted: 08 Dec 2020, 15:01 
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Excellent!

Could you make the size 800x800?
400x400 is the minimum but bigger is better!

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Will do! Sorry about that. I don't know why I had 400 in my head. I also added a note about not exceeding 150KB on the size of the file.
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 Post subject: Re: Got my first cover into the database!!
PostPosted: 10 Dec 2020, 19:39 
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davidb_sk wrote:
Anyway, here's a link to the article. I hope it's useful to someone.

Absolutely. Thanks for this. I will give it a go next time I submit a cover.
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