Larry Berman > Richard L. ShererJuly 19, 2012 at 5:21pm
Three years later and nothing much has changed.
ZAPP is still allowing artists to upload smaller images which project proportionally smaller. And there is a clear advantage (image wise) to artists who upload correctly prepared and sized images.
The original concept was that the images that were uploaded would be seen by the jurors without any modification. That was the intention of the system. Now if you upload smaller images, they will be masked by 1920 black borders and appear smaller in projection. And if you upload rectangular images without black borders, they will have black borders added and then regenerated as JPEGs again, against the original concept. The best way to prepare your images will always be in the original format so the jurors see your images exactly as you prepared them. The added benefit of doing it correctly is that you'll have the proper size images on your computer to apply to other shows asking for images in the ZAPP format, which they now consider the standard in digital jury images. I expect that at some point in the future, they'll be running a script on all the images testing for the incorrect size and notifying those artists to upload new images, That's the way we left it after I showed them a side by side comparison of what I had observed at the jury.
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Three years later and nothing much has changed.
ZAPP is still allowing artists to upload smaller images which project proportionally smaller. And there is a clear advantage (image wise) to artists who upload correctly prepared and sized images.
Larry Berman
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100
Larry Berman
Digital Jury Services
http://BermanGraphics.com
412-401-8100