Send us QSL or Old photo scans for the Ham Gallery
Please don't send more than 5 scans at a time. Please wait until these 5 go up until sending any more. These will usually go up within a few weeks. It's usually hard to keep up.
If you send a large quantity, I will put the first 5 up. The rest will go in a folder to be used at a future date.
Send scans of the more interesting QSL cards only. Don't send scans of common cards. Send hi-resolution, good quality images and I will crop them down to fit my format. Include the year in the filename, if not shown on the card. Use all lower case letters (example: kc4af_1957.jpg, or kc4af.jpg). Reverse side scans are not necessary unless something of interest is there. If you have any history, photos, or info to go with the card, send that long also.
Make sure the cards aren't already on the QSL Gallery.
Try to align the card scans fairly straight and with white or preferably no background.
Make sure the scanner colors are fairly correct. It takes a lot of extra time to get excessive yellow out and try to reset the colors back to normal in Photoshop. Yellow scans are ok if the card is actually that color of yellow.
Don't send digital photos of the cards, they must be scanned.
Sending scans of old photos:
Be sure to include the year, callsigns, and some info if
possible. Send hi-resolution scans. Some old photos are of poor
quality to start with. This is ok to send.
Scanning photo cards or photos with a lot of detail can sometimes come out fairly grainy. I have found that setting the scanner settings to 300 LPI (lines per inch), which is called "magazine or newspaper setting" can make the images more true to form and less grainy. Please send only good quality scans.
I usually don't let you know when the scans are received. I will let you know when they are on the site.
You can always check http://hamgallery.com/whatsnew/ to see the new files that are going up on the site.
Thanks for your help.
Send scans to: Tom K8CX