[antir-heralds] Random thoughts on electronic submissions

[Wenyeva atte grene]

James D Sena wrote:
> Britt wrote:
>>> Having read the responses through Teceangl's of ~2:45 PM, I have
>>> to ask --- am I the only person who thinks the field is
>>> *purpure*?!?? Gules?? Not to my eyes. YMMV, of course.
>>> 
>> This is why a wholly electronic submissions process will never
>> happen. On my screen it's pinkish and looks like red colored
>> pencil.

A thought comes to mind about that, though.

I suppose theoretically we could require that all colors fall within a
certain range of hex codes when opened in an image editor. So "gules"
might have to be somewhere in a range near #ff0000 when you open it in
Photoshop or equivalent. (That may or may not be the right shade of red;
it just happens to be a code for red that I remember off the top of my
head. The others I have to look up.) :) So even if some people's
monitors show that gules looking like purpure, it would qualify because
the actual file itself would have the correct color. (This would not at
all require everyone to have Photoshop -- there are a ton of other ways
one can find out the colors used in a graphic file. Including web-based
ones, if I recall correctly.)

Such a thing, in a *perfect* world, could perhaps be built into online 
submissions software. So when uploading your work it could say "the 
colors in your device are purpure and Or; is that correct? y/n" If you 
say no, it makes you recolor. ;) Or -- it could have you upload the b&w 
and then do all the coloring online within the electronic system, so 
then all tinctures would be correct by default. (I imagine this would 
have to be very advanced software...)

Colored pencil would almost always register as the wrong color in a
system like this. "Your colors are too light. Did you use colored
pencil? Please recolor your emblazon with Crayola markers or the 
equivalent." ;) Heh.

Of course, this may be too technically advanced, or it may have problems
of its own. But the comment "This is why a wholly electronic submissions
process will never happen" automatically puts my brain into "never say
never" mode and I want to think of ways it *could* happen. It's a fun 
mental exercise.

W

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