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by edoran
Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:47 pm
Forum: Photography/Illustrations Section
Topic: Additional image formats?
Replies: 3
Views: 20722

Re: Additional image formats?

hey sonia, i know your post is from a while ago, but i had a professor explain this to me recently so i'd thought i'd pass along the info :) file formats like jpegs use pixels to tell the computer where the information goes. that's why when you zoom in very close to the image, it's very... pixelated...
by edoran
Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:38 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: hello and thank you!
Replies: 3
Views: 2234

hello and thank you!

hi, my name is erin and i just wanted to say hello. i've been lurking around for a week or two and thought it was time to post here :) i just wanted to thank everyone who is involved with the site - i don't come from a writing background. i studied art in college and all of my knowledge of 'breaking...
by edoran
Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:40 pm
Forum: Questions About Rejections
Topic: I have a MacBook.
Replies: 3
Views: 2456

Re: I have a MacBook.

The little program that comes standard, TextEdit, saves documents in .rtf or .txt (rich text or text). There is an absolutely fabulous free or share ware program ( i know they're different but i don't remember the difference) called neo-office. it's fantastic. it can save files in about fifteen or s...
by edoran
Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:07 pm
Forum: Site Renovations Writer's Suggestions
Topic: Illustration suggestion
Replies: 0
Views: 3694

Illustration suggestion

I'm new here so I'm not the most informed, but I wanted to offer a suggestion for the illustration section. From what I understand it's relatively new, but there was one thing I've noticed that I thought you might like to address. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but I can drag the low res...
by edoran
Thu Jan 08, 2009 10:40 pm
Forum: Questions About Rejections
Topic: Commas, US usage different?
Replies: 12
Views: 7992

Re: Commas, US usage different?

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this or if it's even true, but my second grade teacher (in Ireland, so British rules probably :) told us that list commas developed because of money. Theoretically, the correct usage in lists is that there is always a comma preceding the 'and.' "I like to ea...