OFFICAL GOTSTANG CALENDAR UPDATE THREAD!

[Nicoleb3x3]

CALENDAR STATUS:

Click Here to Link To GotStang Calendar Info Page (http://www.gotstang.com/profile.php?Nicoleb3x3&detail=1&page=7#jump)

PRICE: Will be $18.99 includes shipping. (YES-this is our cost to you!)

PURHCASE DATE:
I'm estimating the calendar will be available for sale online around Jan 6th. I've orderd a sample for review to ensure quality before releasing the product. :clap:

SAMPLE OF A TYPICAL MONTH:
http://www.gotstang.com/photodisplay.php?file=5913

FINAL STANGS IN THE 2006 CALENDAR:
We did our VERY BEST to get everyone in the calendar based on first-come first serve and images available.

COMPLETED: :clap:
JANUARY (WHITE)
SaleenLX5.0, Thecarphotoguy, 02Roush, powercrazed88

FEBRUARY (RED):
ysoffcr, girlzgt, 2003 redfire derk 2k 3M1,

MARCH (NORTHWEST STANGS):
02bluestang, nay, meneep, spike, jimudy, pacecar1979, silverandbluemustang, blueponygirl

APRIL (GT MUSTANGS)
jamessocal, tweety, hsepwrbrat, tribalstang

MAY (MUSTANG LEGACY):
ladystang78, 01FR500, riddick, 1nasty96

JUNE (SUPERCHARGED)
sicboy, mysticobra, lengendary, fierce rage

JULY (MACH/ROUSH/SALEEN/COBRA)
wldponi03, redtwilight, swervo, 306stang

AUGUST (FOXBODY)
crimsonblack, novidlx, topnotch5.0, bonesgt

SEPTEMBER (V6):
Electric Green, coopdog21, trikpony, Stang_gurl

OCTOBER (NH STANGS)
nicoleb3x3, blown93feature,onebad95

NOVEMBER (BLACK)
mustanglisa, the guardian, 2k5p51, 2003blacksvt, 97mustanggtchic, bmc_cobra

DECEMBER (MUSTANG LOVE):
yellow_fever, white_stang, skidad62, darkstryder

[Stang Gurl]

sweet, so are these going to be available for purchase or what? if so how much? this is kool... calendar and magazine in the same year, woot!!!!!! :beerchug:

[crimsonblack]

If you are not on the Calendar and still have a desire, should an opening come up, (seems likely) email me a 1600x1200 pixel image of your car (NO rear views,, front only, or engine shots) & (the 1600x1200 should be a photo of the car and not mostly background) with your gotstang name, GS number and year & model (GT, Cobra, V6, etc). I'll put you as an extra and use you as Nicole needs you. There are a lot of slots (people) on the current list that do not have the right image size posted on their site, or emailed me the right size.

IF you are on the calendar list and do not have the correct size image of the car you need to get it to me now. Get off your duffs and take a picture now. Hurry, hurry and yeah... hurry.

IF YOU SEND IMAGE WITHOUT THE OTHER INFO IN THE EMAIL IT WILL BE DELETED. THE CAR INFO IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE PHOTO.

My email is Crimsonblack@hotmail.com
Please make sure you follow the directions above to get on a stand-by list.

Thanks.

[electricgreen]

I'll shoot ya a shot of my V6 E-green vert (since the yellow one is really a project in progress) tonight. Do you just want one, or multiples to choose from? I've got a few shots I took this past year that I like...

http://www.gotstang.com/photodisplay.php?useruid=881&normal=1&showimage=23

and

http://www.gotstang.com/photodisplay.php?useruid=881&normal=1&showimage=16 (without me in it, I have that one on my home pc)

are my two favs currently

[2003 REDFIRE]

Crimsonblack:

Are the images I sent to you okay?

They were bigger than the 1600x1200.

Thanks,

Shane (2003 REDFIRE)

[crimsonblack]

Just got a flood of images this morning in my email box for the back-up list. Excellent. If you included all the information requested with the photo I'll save you to file and keep your for the back up and... I'll burn the folder to disc for possible calendar consideration if Nicole starts one for next year.

Thanks to everyone.

[2003 REDFIRE]

I put all that info with the picture.
I'm not a back up.
I'm in February.
According to the above post.

[saleenlx5.0]

Crimson...were my photos ok for you?

Nicole...Best idea I've seen in sometime!! Good work girl, count me in for atleast 2 copies. :nxnos:

[nhcobra]

When are you guys going to be ready for orders or did I miss that somewhere?
BTW...Great Job :j:

[crimsonblack]

I still need images from the following people.

Stone Turp, Speedyhandk, trikpony, stang_gurl, NHCobra, Scott01cobra, jamessocal, pantydropper, derk2k3m1, Riddick, White Stang, 02Roush, Coopdog

What's funny is I have the quality images from a bunch of folks not currently slated for the calendar. But, if the folks listed above don't get it in gear soon, then the extras are looking good.

If you are on the list, you need to get the photos in NOW. My email is... crimsonblack@hotmail.com

[crimsonblack]

OK, I am getting some images... but I am not sure many understand what a beauty shot of your car is.

A beauty shot is from the front of your car generally showing the part of the front, a side and usually the top shooting a more downward angle. Attached is a photo of what the image should appear like.

Even try turning the wheels a bit away from the camaro to enhanced the rims and feel of the car. The second photo shows the front wheel slightly turned away from the camera. It actually fills in the wheel well and presents the rim to the camera.

Images taken for something like a calender should be at 1600x1200 and should be mostly the car, with very little background as you see in both images. (they are not 1600x1200 - they are just sample images)

Nicole will be doing a calendar earlier for next year and these are the types of photos that will be needed.

[crimsonblack]

STATUS:

Cover - 75%
January - 25%
February - 25%
March - Complete
April - 0%
May - 0%
June - Complete
July - Complete
August - Complete (using 2 extras)
September - 0%
October - Complete
November - Complete
December - 50%

Still missing a ton of images or more months would be completed.

[02roush]

I emailed you crimson. Thanks man

[electricgreen]

Come on folks, get your pics in-I can't wait to see this, I know there's a ton of sweet stangs here (I've had too much time on my hands and have been floating around checking out everyone's sites!).....

[Nicoleb3x3]

OK, I UPDATED MY FIRST POST---PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!

[02BlueStang]

I can be in the V6 class if needed since you said you are accepting new applicants...I have plenty of pictures that are about the min resolution and size....just let me know if you need a different shot etc of the stang and I will send some to you.

-Kyle

[crimsonblack]

Kyle, I don't think anyone is going to email you asking for photos. You need to submit them if you want to be in the V6 area. 1600x1200 and include your GS name, number and year/model in the email. Thanks.

[electricgreen]

I can be in the V6 class if needed since you said you are accepting new applicants...I have plenty of pictures that are about the min resolution and size....just let me know if you need a different shot etc of the stang and I will send some to you.

-Kyle

You totally should email some pics, your car is sweet!!

[trikpony]

Okay Crimsonblack I just sent you 2 pics in the 1600x1200 image size.. Hope those will do. Thanks so much

[Nicoleb3x3]

more updates posted in my original post-see top of page-
finally getting good responses, crimson has allot of pics to review :)

[2003 REDFIRE]

Do you have the pictures you need from me or do you need more or better?
Let me know what you need or want.
Thanks

[PowerCrazed88]

just in case i still got a shot here's the pics, otherwise let me know once they're done so i can see how everyone's calendar shots came out :clap: this gs calendar was a great idea!!

http://www.gotstang.com/photodisplay.php?useruid=2887&normal=1&showimage=9

http://www.gotstang.com/photodisplay.php?useruid=2887&normal=1&showimage=5


i have more but i'm not sure how to post on here cause they're off my documents and there's no URL to post them here to email me at jskibisky88@msn.com if you still need pics of my stang and i'll email better ones, unless i'm too late already then thanks for consideringing mine :) and let me know once they are finished and where i cn get one..and also if we ever do another :thumpupn: :beerchug: :gso:

-Jennifer

[crimsonblack]

800x600, which those are, are to small for a four image sheet. OK for a sixer or niner sheet, but that's about it. 800x600 is the largest that can be posted on Got Stang and that isn't gone cut it for a poster image. 1800x1600 by the time the car is cut out of the image is shrunk only about 20% to 30% to get the correct size for the calendar on a four car post.

[2003 REDFIRE]

I just sent you (crimsonblack) 1800x1200 images. Let me know if they are okay or not.

[crimsonblack]

I got a huge flux of car images today. We'll see how many sheets we can piece together and get done this weekend. :)

Thanks to everyone for the images... and shame on you folks waiting til the last moment to send them out. tsk, tsk, tsk. :)

[wldponi03]

Hey Tim and Nicole you guys are so great for putting this together, I can't wait to order a few, one to use and some for gifts!!! Thanks Again, now we can really advertise GotStang and show off the Awesome Stangs on here!!!

[Nay]

W00t! My picture worked!

[sicboy]

i have begged for a preview but came up empty handed so dont waist your time :cussing:

[crimsonblack]

I have created a... sample for posting and sent it to Nicole yesterday asking if I can post it for you guys to see. You wouldn't be able to do anything with it, but get a general feel for how the entire thing will look. We'll see what she feels like.

I have had to rearrange some cars and use quite a few extras but I have all the sheets complete except for NW Mustangs. I have submitted the entire run to Nicole for review. I am sure I screwed up at least one on the GS# for someone. She'll find it and I'll got through it all again I think.

Hopefully when Nicole starts the one for next year people will be more willing to get off their butts and take some quality photos of their car. This one was hectic coming up with all the cars, info and background designs in such a rush.

Fingers crossed on getting the sample posted.

[sicboy]

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[wldponi03]

As soon as the weather is good I will start scoping out great places for pics!!! I will be doing alot of roadtrips this year so should be able to find some Great Locations!!!
Can't wait to see the Calendar when its done!!

[Nicoleb3x3]

UPDATES ON POST 1 - INCLUDES A SAMPLE :)

[sicboy]

that looks great. thanks for the peek and all the hard work!!

[blueponygirl]

Its not that I am lazy that I don't have a good picture, its just that I work 12 hours a day and my days off its either rainy or gloomy (it is Washington) so I really can't get another picture. (Plus I am not in WA right now) I am sorry none of my many hunt pictures didn't work either. I was really hoping my p-51 one would work too. Kinda sucks because I was the one who wanted a Washington Mustang/ Northwest stang page and I can't be in it!! oh well. maybe next year!!!

[crimsonblack]

Your in it.

[wldponi03]

The preview looks awesome, can't wait to place my order!! You guys did awesome work together!!! Thanks!!!

[2003 REDFIRE]

LOOKS GREAT!!!!! I give you both a huge thumbs up for all the hard work you guys did on this calendar!!!!!

[crimsonblack]

I have completed Nicole's repair requests on each sheet and sent her the final images. Hopefully it is done.

[mustangfreak123]

I have completed Nicole's repair requests on each sheet and sent her the final images. Hopefully it is done.
nice job crimson :beerchug:

[Frosty]

nice job crimson :beerchug:

Ditto. :woohoo:

[ladystang78]

Hey Tim and Nicole you guys are so great for putting this together, I can't wait to order a few, one to use and some for gifts!!! Thanks Again, now we can really advertise GotStang and show off the Awesome Stangs on here!!!
I second that motion :beerchug:

[crimsonblack]

nice job crimson :beerchug:

Better wait until you all see the finish product. :) :nutkick: :diss: d

But thanks for all the compliments so far. I just hope everyone is happy with it. :nailbite:

[Nicoleb3x3]

some updates on post #1 :)
thank you everyone, I'll have an update for the final release within 1 week at the most.
(I'm reviewing a sample before releasing the product for final sale. We want to ensure the quality of the printing is worthy of crimson's fine images) :)

[electricgreen]

:clap: :woohoo: :gso: :beerchug:

Thanks for all your hard work!! I can't hardly wait :nailbite: I need a new calender for my office (and of course, my house)!!

[ladystang78]

Wooohooo! Cant wait. :clap: :clap: :clap:
You know it will be a good one.....its all Gotstang members :beerchug:

[BonesGT]

Nicole, just let me know where and when to send the money...hehehe
I'm honored to be included in this first ever GotStang item!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!

[Nay]

Too cool! My fiance's family is getting a copy of both of the 2006 calendar's that I'm in! I might even autograph them.. Hm..

[2003 REDFIRE]

Any update on the sale of the calendar?

[hrsepwrbrat]

I'm on the sample!!! Well, Ellie is... woohoo!!! But she's not a 93, she's an 03 LOL

[2003 REDFIRE]

Anybody hear if the calendar is for sale as of yet???
If so who and where do we send the money?

[wldponi03]

Anybody hear if the calendar is for sale as of yet???
If so who and where do we send the money?
I think we are all waitng for word on the sale of the Calendar!! I can't wait :w00t:

[J]

We are waiting for sample prints of the calendar to see how it will look. It will be available on the website for the cost. We are not making any money on this (as always). So you will order from the print company directly. We are expecting our copy to be in the mailbox tonight.

[electricgreen]

:nailbite:

[Nicoleb3x3]

I HOPE that it'll be for sale tomorrow night.
the calendar did not come in today...damn mail!

It'll be available in the GS store when it's for sale
...you all will get a link right to it.

[02roush]

Thanks for all the hard work on it everyone.

I can't wait to order one(or two). Although I will probably never change it from January.

[Nay]

Yeah~ I'll be on March for a while! :D

[Nicoleb3x3]

Calendar is not in the f-in mailbox!! dammit!!!!
...hopefully tomorrow...i guess

[ladystang78]

Dang the mail :wow:
:nailbite: :nailbite: :nailbite:

[electricgreen]

AAAAUUUGHHHH.....The stress......lol

[2003 REDFIRE]

Thanks for the update. I'm just antsy for the calendar. I'll need one or two or etc... One of them will stand on February forever. Thanks for all of your hard work Nicole and Crimesonblack!!!!!!

[electricgreen]

September ownz joo....:P I can't wait, I need a new one for my office....

[Nicoleb3x3]

DAMMIT!
So frustrated it wasn't in today's mail!!!!
:ranting: :ranting: :ranting: :ranting: :ranting:

..ok, if not here by tomorrow.... :ranting:

I'm very sorry to all the White Stangs of January....

[coopdog21]

DAMMIT!
So frustrated it wasn't in today's mail!!!!
:ranting: :ranting: :ranting: :ranting: :ranting:

..ok, if not here by tomorrow.... :ranting:

I'm very sorry to all the White Stangs of January....
as long as we get it by september :lol:

[Nicoleb3x3]

FINALLY!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:
For sale now! (and yes still at cost) :devil:
Click Here To Purhcase A GotStang Calendar Today! (http://www.cafepress.com/gotstang.43034618)

http://www.gotstang.com/photodisplay.php?file=6044

Crimson, we'll pay for your calendar! (and send you some GS decals)
send me an email with your mailing address.

[hrsepwrbrat]

Am I the first to buy one? LOL THANKS so much!!!

[Nicoleb3x3]

lol, probably!
..not counting our "test" copy

[J]

I hear theres nude pics of crimson on the back...... :rofl:

[2K5P51]

Wow!! I am in it!! had no idea till just now... I am buying 4

[wldponi03]

It looks Great :clap: :clap: Got my order in for 2 so far!!! I can't wait Cafe Press does awesome work. They did all of my stuff with my toon on it.

[bkhroush2]

Well I didn't make it IN the calandar, but it looks like I made the cover! Very cool! It'll be hanging on the wall unopened! :lol:

[crimsonblack]

Tweety's shot for April is probably my favorite in the calendar. The angle of the shot, position of the car, the turned front wheel just looks awesome. Hope you guys like the calendar.

[RedTwilight]

Thanks for all the hard work! Looks awesome! Got mine ordered today!

[stolenheron]

LOOKS SICK!

[Frosty]

Great looking poster, gotta order 1!

[electricgreen]

http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/images/smilies/bounce.gif

[hrsepwrbrat]

Tweety's shot for April is probably my favorite in the calendar. The angle of the shot, position of the car, the turned front wheel just looks awesome. Hope you guys like the calendar.
I love it! Except for one thing... My little April girl has the wrong year on there... but that's ok, I still know it's her!

[swervo]

Damn, the wrong picture is on there. That's my friend's wife's car.

[J]

Damn, the wrong picture is on there. That's my friend's wife's car.
LOL!

[swervo]

Im kinda disappointed, but at least my name is on there. Oh well, there's always next year.

[J]

Im kinda disappointed, but at least my name is on there. Oh well, there's always next year.
I wonder what went wrong?

[crimsonblack]

If someone was listed for the calendar but did not supply the quality images needed (1800x1200) they were substituted with extras that did.

[swervo]

I wasnt a substitute. You guys just accidently picked the wrong pic thats all and yes that picture was on my page, but it was labeled "my car's twin". Im not mad, just wish my car was on there. Like I said before, there's always next year.

[yosemiddysam]

I would very much like to be in the next calendar if it is possible. And really if there was that many people that wanted on and didnt get on why couldnt there be two different calendars?

[J]

31 calendars sold. 5 pending. very cool!!!

[Scott 01Cobra]

I would very much like to be in the next calendar if it is possible. And really if there was that many people that wanted on and didnt get on why couldnt there be two different calendars?

ya, no kidding - I know of SEVERAL cars that should be in there ....

[PowerCrazed88]

got mine and it's hangin on my wall, i really gotta say, you both did an incredible job on this and the final product looks amazing!

[Nicoleb3x3]

I would very much like to be in the next calendar if it is possible. And really if there was that many people that wanted on and didnt get on why couldnt there be two different calendars?

Sorry, but we didn't have enoght time and enough large quality images.
honestly, it was surprising how many people couldn't give us a 1600x1200 image of their stang...

Next year we have enough time to get people signed up early and qualified with appropriate image(s). I would like to see a regular calendar like the one produced this year, and a second calendar which would showcase the top 12 cars on Gotstang...or something like that.

[ladystang78]

Got my calender but for some reason i keep finding it stuck on May :clap:
Awesome work.I love it

[crimsonblack]

I would very much like to be in the next calendar if it is possible. And really if there was that many people that wanted on and didnt get on why couldnt there be two different calendars?

The... orginal interest of people expressing their undying desire to put there Mustang Love in a calendar was overwhelming. We could have done two or three calendars based on that.

However, when it actually came down to stepping up those people once expressing that love weren't willing put forth the effort to get the quality photos, (1600x1200) of their cars. That undying desire turned into enough hot air to start a heat wave in the antarctic. We barely enough cars to get this calendar completed and we were on a tight schedule to get it done.

If we did not have the sheets with six or more cars on them we would not have had enough images to do a regular calendar. The images used for those sheets were taken from their gotstang sites and some images were barely acceptable.

You can look at the calendar and figure that at least one car per page was not originally slated to be in this first calendar. They back up entries that asked to get in after all the slots were full. Luckily they sent the quality images along with their request and they made it on the calendar.

Time would be a second factor as we didn't even get started until the end of November I believe. Add in actually getting the car photos from all the owners, creating and designing the calendar layout, setting up the text desgn and of course photoshopping the cars from every photo, pasting, resizing, color correction, adding effects and so forth makes it a fairly time consuming project.

Hopefully for Nicole people will be ready with their part to get in the calendar, if she does one this tim, and more people will actually make the real effort to participate. Those that made the effort to get your cars on the 2006 calendar... "THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH".

The calendars came out very nice from what I am reading, and with the 2006 calendar out maybe more people will be forth coming with images of their car this time. .

To Hrsepwrbrat I apologize that Nicole and I failed to catch the incorrect listing for your car. I am sorry.

[hrsepwrbrat]

To Hrsepwrbrat I apologize that Nicole and I failed to catch the incorrect listing for your car. I am sorry.

Hey man, no need to apologize. I just thought it was kinda funny, that's something I would do LOL

Calendar looks great, good job guys!!

[blown93feature]

I just recieved my calender in the mail yesterday and I have to say you guys did a fantastic job :beerchug: :beerchug: I want to thank you guys for the effort and I do appreciate what you have done for us. :thanks:

[Blow-By Racing]

edit : I should have read... sorry, i've been off the boards for some time now.

if you do it again next year, please, make sure you let me know.

[Blow-By Racing]

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MustangWorld/LNR_FU.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MustangWorld/LNRMySpace.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MustangWorld/MySpacePics006.jpg

[Nicoleb3x3]

Yes, looking forward to at least 2 calendars next year :)
With advanced planning, it'll be great. And, perhaps we could do advanced ordering...with enough orders perhaps we could get higher quality printing (larger with more freedom of secondary images in the calendar portion of the calendar)

[Rwest75]

I got mine in the mail today. Only thing missing was my stang......:rofl:

Ryan

[crimsonblack]

Wow! I got my first peak of the actual printed out calendar last night. And, it looked good this morning too. It turned out very nice. March is colorful and came out surprisingly well with the 8 cars on the page. I thought November was probably the least favorite page for me. I still think maybe the best pose in the calendar was Tweety's car in April and 1Nasty96 looks good too.

Again. Thanks to everyone that put in the effort and sent in photos the right size and right quality.

[ladystang78]

Just ordered another calender.This time for the guy who made it possible for me to own Destiny.He is going to love it.
Any idea how long they will be up for purchase?

[tweety]

Tweety's shot for April is probably my favorite in the calendar. The angle of the shot, position of the car, the turned front wheel just looks awesome. Hope you guys like the calendar.


Wow! I got my first peak of the actual printed out calendar last night. And, it looked good this morning too. It turned out very nice. March is colorful and came out surprisingly well with the 8 cars on the page. I thought November was probably the least favorite page for me. I still think maybe the best pose in the calendar was Tweety's car in April and 1Nasty96 looks good too.

Again. Thanks to everyone that put in the effort and sent in photos the right size and right quality.
Thank you crimsonblack I am very humble by that :j: