linpelk
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Ok, so I want to offer my clients a CD with fully edited HIGH RESOLUTION images. I am telling them that they will get the 10x16 version. right? So, if they decide to print a 10x16 picture...it should be perfect, but now what if they want to print a 24 x 30? Will it still be perfect and IF SO...then if I offered them a CD with fully edited LOW RESOLUTION photos (say 4x6) wouldn't they still be able to print perfectly fine 10x16 prints with those as well?
If you're offering them the full res image file, I wouldn't worry about making smaller sizes. It would be more trouble than it's worth telling the client which image is for what size and keeping them all sorted. Just give them the full res file and let them print what size they want from it.
I guess this is what I'm getting at:
A local photographer near me has her prices listed on her website. She has a flat rate "session fee" then she sells 5x7 or 8 x10 or whatever prints from these pictures, but she also gives her clients a disk with all of the images in LOW RES she says are suitable for printing 4x6. Couldn't they just print their own 5x7 and 8x10 anyway and get pretty decent prints?
The reason I am asking all of this is that I'm in the process of actually setting up a price list for my website and people these days are getting used to the "shoot and burn" photographer who gives them ALL of their images. I would like to sell prints, but I would like to offer them something like the above mentioned photographer does. However, why would they buy prints from me if they can just print their own from the low res. images I gave them on the disk? Is there a DIFFERENT adjustment you make in photoshop to make the pixel count smaller or something that makes them look really crappy if they enlarge? I know I am going off on a tangent a bit, but just trying to make sense of the whole process.
If you are growing tired of my endless questions, feel free to let this thread go. I am so grateful for your help so far and you've really cleared a lot up for me already.
By the way, I have like 100 more questions about the different "quality" sizes of the jpeg (maybe THAT is the difference in print quality??) so it may not end anytime soon :blushing:
If you're offering them the full res image file, I wouldn't worry about making smaller sizes. It would be more trouble than it's worth telling the client which image is for what size and keeping them all sorted. Just give them the full res file and let them print what size they want from it.
I guess this is what I'm getting at:
A local photographer near me has her prices listed on her website. She has a flat rate "session fee" then she sells 5x7 or 8 x10 or whatever prints from these pictures, but she also gives her clients a disk with all of the images in LOW RES she says are suitable for printing 4x6. Couldn't they just print their own 5x7 and 8x10 anyway and get pretty decent prints?
The reason I am asking all of this is that I'm in the process of actually setting up a price list for my website and people these days are getting used to the "shoot and burn" photographer who gives them ALL of their images. I would like to sell prints, but I would like to offer them something like the above mentioned photographer does. However, why would they buy prints from me if they can just print their own from the low res. images I gave them on the disk? Is there a DIFFERENT adjustment you make in photoshop to make the pixel count smaller or something that makes them look really crappy if they enlarge? I know I am going off on a tangent a bit, but just trying to make sense of the whole process.
If you are growing tired of my endless questions, feel free to let this thread go. I am so grateful for your help so far and you've really cleared a lot up for me already.
By the way, I have like 100 more questions about the different "quality" sizes of the jpeg (maybe THAT is the difference in print quality??) so it may not end anytime soon :blushing: