ajzammit Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Just a little question for the experts. When you give a CD to your clients with low res images for them to choose whcih ones to print, what resolution do you consider safe?thanks and regards to allAlfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_daalder Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 For what it is worth, I stick to a maximum of 800 pixels in the horizontal dimension. That's pretty 'safe'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james d. Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 650 pixels can produce 4x6's. Watermark, slideshow then at least you have a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenneth_dougherty Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 384 X480 (low rez 8X10) can be viewed as slideshow but doesn't give good prints even at 4X6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annealmasy Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Why not just post them online so they CAN'T print them? Most web apps are right-click disables, and a lot of them also dynamically generate the images so that they don't appear even if you screen print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annealmasy Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 To clarify, I'm referring to online proofing applications such as PicTage, PickPic, SimplePhoto, etc. Such proofs are typically only a medium-quality JPG constrained to around 400 pixels. You can watermark your images. They are right-click disabled. And if you try to print the page only the frame will print, not the image itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete_s. Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I had a look at pictage. It took me less than 5 minutes to figure out how to get an image from them with no watermarks and slightly higher resolution. This one is from their demo. I don't know if it's the original file or what.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwendlyn702 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Or instead of giving a proof CD you can give a magazine style proof album. This way they are not limityed to only viewing the pics online, they can take the book with them to show off to everyone and possibly get prospects out of it. They are only a little more expensive then the CD, but require less of your time to put together, and free advertising from your client to there friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajzammit Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 thank you all very much for your replies. For the moment i will stick to my conventional way, but reduce the resolution of proofs as i guess they were rather high, but the other options sound very interesting and worth investigating. thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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