![]() When you have your final perfected image, save it in the file type you have been working in. You folks that work in Raw carry on as usual. psd (if you have Photoshop) and then do your magic. If you are going to work, modify, manipulate, your images, we suggest that when you import them to your computer save them as. So, with that said, here’s what we recommend… (It’s actually a bit more like 95mb… to be honest.) Two – It will allow you to upload your very large images and “get under” our file size cap of 100mb. In other words, your upload time is quicker. That’s what the compression is all about. Yet the compressed image file is smaller when “closed” than the non-compressed image file. When an image that has been saved in both file types (lossy and non-lossy) is “open” in an image editing program, both will have an identical file size. So why even use a lossy file type if it’s so crappy? Good question. Non-lossy simply means that no compression is used and an image in that file type can be saved over and over again with no loss of detail. Doing this repeatedly could theoretically turn your image into, well, mush. In other words – detail is minutely reduced. Lossy means that when a file is saved it is compressed and when that very same file is opened and then saved again it is compressed yet again resulting in “information loss”. The Big Giant Deal with files types is “lossy vs. (It’s still technical so you’re going to have to noodle it a bit.) So, right here, right now, we will make this as simple as it can be. As a visual artist you know you really don’t want that to happen. There is such an endless amount of info, dissertations and arguments, pro and con, about image file types out there, it can make your eyes glaze over. So, when creating your images, use 180dpi or higher. Not to mention, ours are way more colorful and therefore - accurate. The “dots” that our printers create are so minute that at 180dpi, we found that our prints were sharper than those high quality “coffee table” images. We still use dpi to describe the resolution but it’s a whole new ball game. After many, many refinements the Giclée came into being. Subsequently, and appropriately, the dpi term was carried over to dot-matrix printers (Ugh.) and laser printers (Great for text but when it comes to art, forget about it.) And then, the ink-jet printer came about. 300dpi became the standard for quality magazines and 350dpi became the standard for fine art publications, such as the familiar “coffee table” books of art and photographs. Originally, this term came about to describe the quality of an image created in the printing press industry. DPIĭots Per Inch – This is the resolution, or sharpness, at which your Giclées are printed. We can’t resist to add – We occasionally have genuinely old school folks send us images in CMYK. Yet, it’s also important to say, if you have an image in sRGB that looks great it will still yield a fantastic print. We suggest that you switch all your cameras to Adobe RGB (1998) if you can. Because it is “web ready” many cameras come out of the box preset to sRGB. Why include data that will not be seen? So those colors were removed from the set and sRGB was born, great for the web, not so much for artists (You could say, it removes nuance). ![]() What about sRGB? Sometimes called Simple RGB or Stupid RGB, or worse, this is a color space that was created for one “simple” reason, the World Wide Web is not capable of displaying all the colors included in Adobe RGB. So for best results, if at all possible, calibrate your display and work your images in the Adobe RGB (1998) color space. All of our computers and printers are set to Adobe RGB (1998). We use Adobe RGB (1998) for our color space. What’s important about this set is that it insures that the color of an image remains the same from creation all the way to final print. So here you go, in the simplest terms, color space is a defined set of colors. ![]() What is color space? We had intended on including a link to the Wikipedia definition and be done with it. Go to - input your email and ours - Accepted files types - JPG, TIFF, PSD, PNG, PDF, BMP, ICO, SVG, EPS, and GIF Color Space IMPORTANT UPDATE - WE PREFER YOU USE "WE TRANSFER" to upload images - it is a Free service. ![]()
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