User contributed Gran Turismo Magazine

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GrahamTurismo
Are you recalling the fact that you said that to him, or are you directing it to me this time? I'm on your side here.

If it's the latter, I have done magazine layouts before; which is why I feel like I can provide constructive criticism here. GTLife is very well done. His magazine could use a little finessing. I could show examples of my work, but I'm not here for a d--- measuring contest like RC45 seems to be.Word works for typing. Or are you wanting to do layouts? You'll want to check out InDesign in that case.
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What's indesign?
 
MrMulsanne
What's indesign?
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That was a garbled mess of copypasta. And CS2 is years old, where did you even get that from? :P

InDesign is basically the world standard for page layouts (like Photoshop is for picture editing). It's made by the same people, and it's what was used to make the GTLife magazine. As you may decipher from the previous post; like all Adobe products, it's fairly expensive... but of course you can download a 30 day trial from their website. But really, if your just looking to type an article don't waste your time trying to muck about with InDesign. It's way overkill unless you want to add images and format a magazine-like finished product. And Schwadegan will do that for you if you're going to submit an article.
 
GrahamTurismo
That was a garbled mess of copypasta. And CS2 is years old, where did you even get that from? :P
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I've gotten quite a few articles so far and the greater part is really, really good material in my opinion. I'm still waiting to get most of them back from the copy editor though.
 
Hi again, Schwadegan.

I was wondering if anyone is doing an artical on Classic Cars? Explaining why one may prefer them to Modern Day cars etc...

If so, I would love to write my 2nd artical for GTP :)
 
TeamLotusGT5
Hi again, Schwadegan.

I was wondering if anyone is doing an artical on Classic Cars? Explaining why one may prefer them to Modern Day cars etc...

If so, I would love to write my 2nd artical for GTP :)
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No one has written an article like that yet, so you're good to go!
 
Just stumbled across this and i'm amazed at the effort that has been put in. Look forward to many future releases. Deserves a place in my sig.
 
Dear all: Awesome job on the magazine!!! Thanks a ton!!!

I have a question:

I am a 'real life' amateur racer. I got recently started in autocrossing and club racing, and am also a novice track day instructor. I am co-author on my friend Dave Gran (seasoned succesful racer) with his webpage that is a guide for beginners into real-life racing:

http://www.goaheadtakethewheel.com

(Check the blog - I am 'astrophysathingy' there).

It is a free resource (former book turned webpage) that the Sports Car Club of America recommends to its members as a novice guide. We even have a free mentor program where we connect beginners with experienced racers who volunteer their time to give advice.

It turns out that to get into motorsports, all you need is very modest money, and a normal street car, even an economy car is totally sufficient.

Dave and I were thinking that there will be many GT racers would be interested to try out real life motorsports - all of us are racing addicts after all. GT got me into real life racing (By the way, we know a bunch of US champion level club racers who love GT5 so much that we race online together - yes, GT5 is that good).

Would there be an interest from your side for an article that summarizes the options to get started in racing, with links to our page for further reading?

Thanks a ton! Cheers, Kai

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I've still got that article/column in the works.

EDIT: I just sent it. Check it out and let me know what you think.
 
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astrophysathing
Dear all: Awesome job on the magazine!!! Thanks a ton!!!

I have a question:

I am a 'real life' amateur racer. I got recently started in autocrossing and club racing, and am also a novice track day instructor. I am co-author on my friend Dave Gran (seasoned succesful racer) with his webpage that is a guide for beginners into real-life racing:

http://www.goaheadtakethewheel.com

(Check the blog - I am 'astrophysathingy' there).

It is a free resource (former book turned webpage) that the Sports Car Club of America recommends to its members as a novice guide. We even have a free mentor program where we connect beginners with experienced racers who volunteer their time to give advice.

It turns out that to get into motorsports, all you need is very modest money, and a normal street car, even an economy car is totally sufficient.

Dave and I were thinking that there will be many GT racers would be interested to try out real life motorsports - all of us are racing addicts after all. GT got me into real life racing (By the way, we know a bunch of US champion level club racers who love GT5 so much that we race online together - yes, GT5 is that good).

Would there be an interest from your side for an article that summarizes the options to get started in racing, with links to our page for further reading?

Thanks a ton! Cheers, Kai

dave_kai_civic_lrp-300x195.jpg
090609Miata-192-300x199.jpg
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That sounds interesting indeed. It would definitely differ from the rest of the articles, but in a good way. Write something down and send me in, I think this can work out really great! 👍
 
Schwadegan
That sounds interesting indeed. It would definitely differ from the rest of the articles, but in a good way. Write something down and send me in, I think this can work out really great! 👍
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Thanks Schwadegan! We will aim for a 1-2 page article with a few select hires photos for you to choose from - you are doing a VERY professional job with the layout! I showed the mag to my gf who is a car person too, and she said "If that was a print mag available at the news stand, I'd buy it!".
 
astrophysathing
Thanks Schwadegan! We will aim for a 1-2 page article with a few select hires photos for you to choose from - you are doing a VERY professional job with the layout! I showed the mag to my gf who is a car person too, and she said "If that was a print mag available at the news stand, I'd buy it!".
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Update: Draft V.1 is done. Will polish it a bit and will select some photos, then send it in. Kai
 
Looking forward to seeing my article published in the next issue. Had so much fun doing it that I'm seriously considering becoming a regular contributor...:D
 
ahh this totally slipped my mind sorry about that! I'll try get articles written up during today for future issue if it doesn't make this one.
 
Hey!

Been I while since I looked on here. If you've got some room left, let me know. I think I've got a nice idea. Also, did you add some advertising in it this issue?

EDIT:

How about a 2-3 page section with all the GTPlanet headlines from the last couple of weeks and what;s going on in the forums. Also something like a poll of the week would be nice. Maybe GTPlanet should consider a subforum only about GTLife were only you can add threads or something. So you can add polls, requests etc. Just some idea's.

I've also send you something I just wrote. At the moment it's a raw version. And I still got an 458 Italia advertisement that is half finished still on the shelves. Will dig it up tomorrow.

EDIT2:

The 458 'add' kinda sucked so I made a new one:
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Let me know what you think of it and I will send it to you as a PDF or TIFF, whatever you prefer.
 
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