Step by Step Beads

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

beadmaster — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:41:42 GMT

Suprise! You already know about this items! Yes, we made it. I thread this animated tutorials to see the reaction from the people. Your forum is very nice. I sent you e-mail about animated tutorials. I hope you are interested in.

Good Morning~~

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

Leslie — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:42:48 GMT

Hi! As professional associates of Beadalon, we are quite familiar with these tutorials. Are they your creation? They're nicely animated!

Leslie

editor in chief Step by Step Beads, Bead Star and Creative Jewelry

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

beadmaster — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:21:04 GMT

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Hi Leslie,

What do you think about above animated tutorials? This is the kind of digital contents for your megazine.

I'm from Korea and develope E-learning system for beading people. I hope USA people like our digital contents.

Good day~~

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

Leslie — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:09:53 GMT

I believe it comes down to what we are used to, regarding digital publications. I like the convenience and ecological wisdom of digital media, no storage or recycling issues...as well as the economics of postage. Yet, like Stan, I frequently print pages and always cut out what I like best from print magazines, to have stuff up on my inspiration board. (My husband often calls me the Guttenburg!)

If only computers could mimic the smell of ink on pages, ey? Maybe a scratch and sniff CD case...!

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

CrystalCubeBead. — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:50:46 GMT

I was subscribed to an electronis magazine that is now on-line. I can download and save it on my computer. The schematics are still clear. I can print out whatever I want from it.

I can have a hard copy, without ads !! I can keep copies of what interests me on my computer without needing to scan it first, ALL illustrations are very clear, can be enlarged for viewing details. BUT, I still miss the old magazine !

It is cheaper to publish, and it takes less archival space than would a set of CDs/DVDs.

Stan B.

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

LoisB — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:49:05 GMT

I don't think a purely digital magazine would make it... we're far to tactile for that to work I think. I would like to be able to buy the magazines in CD or DVD form to keep an archive of the work, but the images in it would HAVE to be high quality. My attitude with the beading magazines is "if I can't see the project REALLY WELL, I'm not interested" because I don't follow the step-by-step projects, I like to see how a specific aspect was done, then use it all for inspiration. Well, there's an idea, perhaps a digital "inspiration" magazine would be better... just a random thought.

I would especially like it if the digital version were less expensive, so I could buy more different magazines digitally, and still get the hard copy of my favorite ones.

Lois

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

christmaskid92508 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:04:58 GMT

YES!!!! I would love to see step by steps go digital

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

Nemeton — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:51:21 GMT

Hmmm, I'm not sure... I am a bit attached to my paper copies, dogeared though they rapidly become... it would be nice not to have to wait so long for the latest issues to become available here in the UK though!

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

Zoë So — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:36:16 GMT

Thank you Sue B., your link is much appreciated! I was also very happy to see free designs on Beadingdaily.com. Ok... off I go...clicking on you link...

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

Sue B — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:24:10 GMT

Zoe here is a web site with some free designs and tutorials. they are not movie type but they are very well illustrated www.bead-patterns.com on the upper right side click on free and look till you find a tutorial or design you want. Follow the directions to download the free ones. They have designs they sell as well, but I believe all the tutorials are in the free section. If you need any more help please come back and ask I will try and help the best I can.

I know there are other sites as well. I will do a search and see if I can help you find what you are looking for.

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

Zoë So — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:29:54 GMT

A desire from oversea:

a digital try out to start with would be reeaaaally nice. I am interested in beading magazines (as there aren't many in my tiny country) but I am not sure if I like the content, so I still have not subscribed yet. As a starter I am especially interested in Step by Step. If anyone like to sell an old issue for a reasonable price, or...show it to me via youtube... ...I 'd be very thankful!

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

Elizabeth — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:18:44 GMT

Hi,

I prefer the normal magazines!

I have a bit of a tradition,

I love going to the newsagents on a weekend to see what new craft magazines they have (its an even better find if a magazine you want was hiding behind another type!) - I then flick through the magazine, mostly looking at the project photos. Then I look through it later, looking at every page. Then a couple of days later I look at all the ads. I even do this when I am re-reading old issues!

I know I sound like a freak but I love magazines, and digital magazines take the joy out of magazines for me!

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

popnicute — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:03:21 GMT

@ Stan: i didn't mean they would put shitty pictures in the digital magazines. i'm sure they will have the same quality pictures. only the file size will be heavily reduced and converted to 72 dpi for easy loading and compactness. for good printing quality, the pics need to be in 300 dpi at the least.

this is more of the technical issue rather than artistry. to upload the original file size in a digital magazine would make it fragile to copyright violation. just imagine if the digi mag uploaded the full sized pic (probably close to 5-8 MB for each full size page picture), people would use these pictures for their own advantages. the quality is superb and prints out great, the readers would make a magazine of their own using these (what they assume as) "freebies" and sell em.

also, how many pictures are there in a magazine and how many pages? if one picture/page (assuming they're in TIFF best quality) is 7 MB, then you will only have 100 pages in a CD. (a CD is 700MB). 100 pages aren't exactly equal to 12 magazines, are they? much less 36 magazines. besides not economical, these pictures would be way to big for your screen in full view.

for the easiest example, try to print a PDF tutorial or a page from a website. that would be the print quality you could expect from a digital magazine. sure they will look good on screen, but not really on paper. would be really sub par to magazine printing quality. because CD/web quality pictures would only have 72 dots per inch (and small. think 800x600 px) while the magazine quality pictures would have 300 dots per inch (big file. think 5000x3500 px or more).

the most used monitor resolution is 1024 x 768 px. so i doubt a digital magazine would make their articles/photos way bigger than that. 5000 x 3500 px is not exactly fast to load on computer as well. especially for those with old and slow computer.

i hope that would explain my point.. x)

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

CrystalCubeBead. — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:07:34 GMT

One of the amateur radio groups I belong to (ARRL) puts a years worth of all three of their magazines, [one monthly an two semimonthly,] cover to cover, with all ads too [!!], on a CD at the end of the calendar year. Then they are available for anyone, not just members, to purchase. This includes photos and circuit diagrams, so the quality has to be good.

Stan B.

Re: Interested in digital magazines?

popnicute — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:06:10 GMT

while it's great to be able to print out the article of your selection, the result wouldn't be as good as the "real" magazine one. i'm pretty sure once they're "CD'd up", they will lower the DPI to web level for copyright purpose and to save some space so they could fit in a CD. also i'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to spend your printer's ink to print at the best result possible :B (also it would be a waste of money on something that's in a web-size. wouldn't look good even when you print it at best.)

i'm pretty sure the size of the pictures are all gonna be small (at least smaller than a full page magazine size). also soft copy is easy to hijack. being in indonesia makes me aware so much about pirating digital softwares/movies XD

i'm not opposed at all to digital copy, mind you.. i'm all for it. just some thoughts :P