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what was involved in this particular part of construction.
This process gets pretty quick once you get the hang of it.
If you are going to take the pictures and complete the proj-
ect prior to writing the article, it’s important to make sure
you have all the necessary pictures. While doing subsequent
construction articles, I have found it easier to take the pic-
tures and document each step as I go rather than waiting
until the project is finished.
When the manuscript was finished, I printed it out and left
it alone for a day or two. For me, this helps to clear my head
and get away from the process of pounding out detailed
explanations of the work involved. I inevitably make changes
when I go back through and edit the document. This step is
critical in making sure that your article is as crisp and con-
cise as possible. And a trip through the grammar and spell
check is a requirement.
SUBMITTING THE ARTICLE
Once the article was finished, I put together the bill of
materials and prepared captions for each of the photos. I
printed these out and reviewed them in detail while looking
at the photos for each step.
Then I checked the “Organizing Your Submission” informa-
tion on the MRH website to be sure that my article would
meet all of the requirements. I put the article and bill of
materials, both of which were Word documents, into a
“When the manuscript was finished, I printed it
out and left it alone for a day or two. I inevitably
make changes when I go back through and edit
the document.”
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new folder on my computer and then added a folder titled
“Assets.” In this folder I placed all of the photographs to be
submitted with the article.
In order to get a large file submitted to MRH electronically,
it has to be compressed into a zip file. I followed the link on
the MRH website to Zipcreator (
and made a
zip file of the folder with all of the material for the article.
Once the zip file was created, I submitted it by clicking on
the "Submit an Article" drop-down on under the Authors
heading on the MRH banner.
It’s important to check your file size, as each submission is
limited to 64 MB. If your submission is larger than this, break
it into two separate files and label them with “Article XYZ-
Submission 1” and “Article XYZ- Submission 2” so that the
folks at MRH know there are two parts. So with the article
finally finished and submitted, I patiently await a response.
Good news arrives! MRH is going to use the article. But not
so fast – the bad news (but actually really good news) is that
Joe and Charlie want to use it for a cover article. So it's back
to the basement to take more photos.
About this time I learned about Helicon Focus, a computer
program that allows you to combine multiple photos at dif-
ferent focal ranges in order to get incredible depth of field.
I found a free focus stack application by the name of
CombineZM (
and start taking more photos.
“So with the article finally finished and
submitted, I patiently await a response. Good
news arrives! MRH is going to use the article.”
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