WANTED: High-quality shots of your ride for Old Cars’ 2024 Reader Rides Calendar

Our regular submission pile will be diminished to 13 finalists. Various conditions are utilized in eliminating pictures not used. Frequently these include steering clear of duplication of marque, product, shade or period and have absolutely nothing to do with the high quality or composition of the illustrations or photos introduced. The next are “do’s and don’ts” to assist you put together a profitable submission:

We can only use high-high-quality, color electronic submissions of collector automobiles from just about every period of manufacture as a result of 1990. Remember to notice that snapshots, photocopies, drawings, paintings, or any media other than high resolution electronic photographs cannot be regarded thanks to good quality concerns. Also, do not submit a digital camera shot manufactured from a actual physical photograph the ensuing graphic will be too distorted when enlarged to calendar webpage measurement.
In producing the options, emphasis will be positioned on motor vehicles of American manufacture, but superb illustrations of extensively gathered imported marques will also be deemed.
Each and every submission really should depict a single, absolutely inventory, unmodified from manufacturing unit initial auto (no photographs with a number of autos) with no seen objects mounted on the dashboard or suspended from the rearview mirror, and need to have no folks, animals, trophies or window stickers.
Every single car need to be photographed against a pleasant and appropriate, non-distracting qualifications.

Tips of what NOT to do with using photos.

Protect of the Outdated Vehicles Reader Rides 2023 calendar

We ask that you reveal no matter whether or not you are prepared to allow us to make our own copies to continue to keep on file for other than calendar use. Such employs may possibly include e book and periodical covers, shade plates, catalogs, show posters, newsletters and advertising supplies, among some others.

Homeowners of the motor vehicles depicted in the calendar will be discovered, and every will get a absolutely free duplicate of the 2024 calendar. Each individual submission should really be accompanied by the title(s), tackle, and phone amount of the owner(s), as well as the 12 months, marque, product and body form of the car or truck depicted. To be regarded as, all submissions will have to be been given in our workplace by May possibly 22, 2023.

Electronic Submission Necessities

The images ought to be 300 dpi (about 3 MB or larger) and saved as a jpg, tiff or raw graphic. The picture should be as big as doable — at minimum the width of the calendar (approx. 12″). The graphic can be 72 dpi (which is a key default), but at that resolution it has to be quite big. Once transformed to 300 dpi, a 72-dpi impression will be one-quarter the measurement submitted. Case in point: If the image at 72 dpi is 12 inches extensive, and is converted up to 300 dpi, the photo will be 3 inches large and too tiny to use.

Digital submissions can be designed via e-mail ([email protected]) or sent on Flash travel. All electronic submissions will have to have the year/make/product and owner’s title in its subject matter line to be regarded as for publication.