Submitting A Photo To The Beacon

Deadline

Our usual deadline is the 15th of the month.

If, for one reason or another, your photo can't be ready by the 15th, we need to know by the 15th that the photo will be coming, and when, in order to save space for it.

Photo Format

We prefer digital photos, but we can also use printed photos. The important thing is that the photos be clear and well-lighted.

For digital photos, we need at least 1,000 pixels of resolution in at least one dimension. For older digital cameras, this may mean you'd have to use the highest quality setting. For the newest models, even a low quality setting may have the 1,000 or more pixels of resolution we need.

Because of copyright issues, we usually can't use photos that were taken by professional photographers or were taken for other publications.

Photo Credit

Be sure to tell us who took the photo.

Photo Caption

A good caption tells the reader the "who, what, when, where, and why" of the photo. Identify the people left to right, front to back. Be sure the names are spelled right!

Submitting A Photo

To submit a printed photo, you can either drop it off at the Town Hall (tell them it's for the Beacon) or you can mail it to The Andover Beacon, PO Box 149, Andover NH 03216-0149. We will return it to you as soon as we can.

To submit a digital photo, you'll need to send it as an attachment to an e-mail. Most digital cameras store their photos in JPEG format (also call JPG format). The biggest problem is that if you open a JPEG photo and look at it on your computer and then save it (usually to your hard drive), it loses a little quality when you save it.

If you open it and save it enough times, it can lose a lot of quality. It's kind of like making a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy...it gets blurrier with each "generation."

The best way to send us a digital photo is to attach to an e-mail the file that's still in your digital camera (if you can figure out how to do that).

The second best is to attach the file that you've saved to your hard drive, but if you do it that way, be sure to only save it once, and when you do save it, use as little JPEG compression as possible. More saves and more compression means less clarity when we try to print it in the Beacon.

Watch For An E-Mail Acknowledgement

If you send us anything by e-mail, we should reply to your e-mail as soon as we receive it. If you don't hear back from us within 24 hours, you should probably give us a call at 735-6099 to see if we ever received it.