art submissions critical update
And while I'm on the subject of updating things with the guidelines tag, I've made a critical change to the guidelines for art submissions. Artists, pay attention:
Images should not be saved in CMYK palettes. We've had a some reports recently of some images' not loading in certain browsers, and after some helpful input from tsukikoushi, we've determined that the problem was that the invisible images were saved in CMYK (and, thanks to tsukikoushi, those images have been re-saved appropriately and are visible again, so if you were one of the artsts whose work was disappearing, you should thank her). As it turns out, IE and some older versions of Firefox cannot display images in the CMYK palette, which was baffling both the people who could see the images and the people who couldn't.
If you don't know how not to save in a CMYK palette ... I don't know what to tell you, as I'm not even really sure what a CMYK is. But I'm sure there are plenty of helpful artist-types out there who'd be more than happy to answer questions about specific programs. RGB and greyscale work just fine, though, so best stick with those.
So anyway, I've spent my winter vacation being productive, and I hope the rest of you have found some free time to read the new issue and are going to leave tons of glowing comments any minute now. After all, writers and artists here work for tips! If you're not going to throw money (and no one's asking you to), please applaud!
...I now promise to stop spamming your friends pages.
Images should not be saved in CMYK palettes. We've had a some reports recently of some images' not loading in certain browsers, and after some helpful input from tsukikoushi, we've determined that the problem was that the invisible images were saved in CMYK (and, thanks to tsukikoushi, those images have been re-saved appropriately and are visible again, so if you were one of the artsts whose work was disappearing, you should thank her). As it turns out, IE and some older versions of Firefox cannot display images in the CMYK palette, which was baffling both the people who could see the images and the people who couldn't.
If you don't know how not to save in a CMYK palette ... I don't know what to tell you, as I'm not even really sure what a CMYK is. But I'm sure there are plenty of helpful artist-types out there who'd be more than happy to answer questions about specific programs. RGB and greyscale work just fine, though, so best stick with those.
So anyway, I've spent my winter vacation being productive, and I hope the rest of you have found some free time to read the new issue and are going to leave tons of glowing comments any minute now. After all, writers and artists here work for tips! If you're not going to throw money (and no one's asking you to), please applaud!
...I now promise to stop spamming your friends pages.