Next Edition V8SHO Screen Saver

New 8/2/05

Greetings SHO fans,

Larry and I agree that it’s just about time to start working on the next edition of our V8SHO screensaver. So that being the case take a look at your favorite convention pictures and break out the digital cameras and collect some great shots of you car! I’m sure post convention that there are many great pictures that have yet to be seen.

All pictures can be e-mailed to me. Last time we worked on the screensaver a virus took down the Virginia Tech e-mail servers and I was cut off from communication right in the middle of the project, so I think I’ll go with my gmail account this time, hopefully there won’t be any difficulty getting pictures to me.

Primary e-mail:

Alternate e-mails if you need them for some reason:

You can also contact me and send pictures to me through AOL IM. My screen name is:

If you have conventional pictures and no means of digitizing them, but you still want to be in the screensaver, contact me, and I’ll arrange for you to mail them to me, I can scan them in and get you into the screensaver.

To keep the quality of our screensaver high, here are a few guidelines when collecting your pictures:

Send me the highest quality and largest size pictures you can, I’ll resize them to save space as I add them.
In your e-mail message, include your name, and where you’re from (city and state) if you wish that to be listed on the slides with your car, if you don’t want your name on it, that’s fine also.
If you wish to do so, try to blur out your license plates before sending me pictures, I can do it if you can’t or don’t know how, but it would be time consuming for me to do all of them myself. If you want me to do it for you, please let me know in your e-mail, otherwise I will assume you want your plate message to be in the screensaver.
Other than blurring the plates, please send clean pictures. That is, you don’t need to add your name to the pictures yourself; I’ll take care of that. Please don’t add any other text to the pictures (no need for mods lists or anything like that)
Feel free to send more than one picture, you can send a few, but don’t send dozens, just pick some of your favorites.
The screensaver is for Gen III SHO’s only, so just send pictures of your V8SHO. This doesn’t mean that other cars can’t be in the picture, but your Gen III SHO should be in the spotlight.
Don’t send pictures with Photoshopped modifications on them (you’ll just get laughed at). But feel free to blur plates, or change the text on your plate. On the other hand, if you have the Photoshop skills to turn a picture of your car into a real work of art, please send it along! Just don’t change the car itself (no adding tint or big wheels or things of that nature)
If you are already in the screensaver and you would like your info changed (if you move and want your new city and state on your pictures) send me an e-mail and let me know, I can change the text on the pictures already in the screensaver.
The old pictures in the screensaver will be saved. However in cases where someone sends a new picture that is basically an update of the old one (such as you just changed your plate message, or the old pic has halogen headlights and the new one has HIDs), since the pictures are so similar, the old one may be removed.
A picture of you in front of your car is more than welcome; it helps everyone to get to know your face.

The tentative deadline will be a month from today, so try to have your pictures to me by September 1st. As before it will take some time after the deadline to process all the pictures and get them inserted into the screensaver software (which tends to be temperamental!). Plus by then I’ll be back in school. So if any late pictures come in after the deadline but before the actual release, I’ll try to get them in, but do your best to get everything to me before 9/1.

That’s all the info I have for you for now. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me at any of the above addresses, or send me an IM.

Good luck,

Mike
97 ES

Mike did a fantastic job about a year or so ago to update the screensaver for the 2004 version. While we always like to see the tricked out cars, I'd like more faces that we can attach to the cars. The cars are merely a great excuse for some great people getting together and enjoying each others company. I'm sending Mike my complete CD for him to pick and choose from. I have about 250 or so convention shots, mostly of social activities. I know Beth is also working on a DVD.

Do as Mike suggests, get your favorites of both your car and yourselves or a gathering and forward along to Mike. He does a hell of a job and I can guarantee you that the end result will help continue on the history of V8SHO.Com.

U.L.

Guys,

I don't know how many of you out there are still film guys, but if anyone would like to have there negs scanned (assuming 35mm of course), contact me off list.

I don't mind doing a few here or there but I wouldn't want to do a whole album or anything.

My scanner can go up to 4000dpi. A 2000dpi scan produces a 16meg file. The last time I did a 4000dpi it was something like 65meg.

All the best,

Rav.

9/1/05

Today marks the tentative deadline for submitting pictures for the new screensaver. Of course it will take some time to get it all put together, there is still much work to be done. I’ll try to get it out to everyone as soon as possible, of course now I’m in the middle of school and classes, but I’m really looking forward to seeing the new version complete! If anyone has any last minute pictures you want to submit for the screensaver, please send them now! as before, if you can get them to me before the new screensaver is done I should be able to get them in there for you anyway, but if you want to get some in yet, don’t delay!

I’ll make another announcement when it’s all done and ready for download. Thanks for everyone who contributed!

Mike

97 ES

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