If a client goes on Pictage and orders final prints, Do I have an opportunity to edit that photo myself, or is that done by Pictage? What if they have speacial requests, like cropping and certain photoshop intensive things that they may have seen in my other work?
thanks!
Full Version: How do you do final prints?
With Pictage, the photographer uploads the EXACT hi-res image (in 4x6 ratio) that is used when Pictage fulfills a print order for the client. If the client doesn't provide a special cropping request -- say for a 5x7 or an 8x10 -- then Pictage will do the crop by default. (They also offer a B&W or sepia tone if the image is uploaded in color.)
When I was uploading images to Pictage, we usually saved the images as JPEGs in Photoshop with JPEG quality 10, since you're uploading the full-res image to Pictage which can take TIME. Quality 11 or 12 only doubled or tripled the upload time without any noticeable difference in print quality.
On the plus side, uploading full-res JPEGs means Pictage becomes a "back-up site" of sorts for your images. On the negative side, it means you're uploading fully edited images that take time to create and time to upload -- as opposed to uploading reasonably sized "thumbnails" that you can later enhance if someone actually orders it.
So you have to look at what works best for your business model.
Hope that helps.
David
P.S. I should also mention that I think Pictage also offers something like "custom prints" which means they'll do facial retouching, glare removal, etc... and there's an additional fee for that -- can't remember what that is because we're not currently using Pictage much anymore for online proofing.
When I was uploading images to Pictage, we usually saved the images as JPEGs in Photoshop with JPEG quality 10, since you're uploading the full-res image to Pictage which can take TIME. Quality 11 or 12 only doubled or tripled the upload time without any noticeable difference in print quality.
On the plus side, uploading full-res JPEGs means Pictage becomes a "back-up site" of sorts for your images. On the negative side, it means you're uploading fully edited images that take time to create and time to upload -- as opposed to uploading reasonably sized "thumbnails" that you can later enhance if someone actually orders it.
So you have to look at what works best for your business model.
Hope that helps.
David
P.S. I should also mention that I think Pictage also offers something like "custom prints" which means they'll do facial retouching, glare removal, etc... and there's an additional fee for that -- can't remember what that is because we're not currently using Pictage much anymore for online proofing.
Well... I don't think I'll be using Pictage anymore. I mean, what's supposed to happen if someone wants to order a print in bw? I certainly am not a fan of their yucky conversion. It just doesn't make sense to me. Thanks for the prompt reply, though!
QUOTE(davidnicholas @ September 24 2007, 07:36 PM) 
With Pictage, the photographer uploads the EXACT hi-res image (in 4x6 ratio) that is used when Pictage fulfills a print order for the client. If the client doesn't provide a special cropping request -- say for a 5x7 or an 8x10 -- then Pictage will do the crop by default. (They also offer a B&W or sepia tone if the image is uploaded in color.)
When I was uploading images to Pictage, we usually saved the images as JPEGs in Photoshop with JPEG quality 10, since you're uploading the full-res image to Pictage which can take TIME. Quality 11 or 12 only doubled or tripled the upload time without any noticeable difference in print quality.
On the plus side, uploading full-res JPEGs means Pictage becomes a "back-up site" of sorts for your images. On the negative side, it means you're uploading fully edited images that take time to create and time to upload -- as opposed to uploading reasonably sized "thumbnails" that you can later enhance if someone actually orders it.
So you have to look at what works best for your business model.
Hope that helps.
David
P.S. I should also mention that I think Pictage also offers something like "custom prints" which means they'll do facial retouching, glare removal, etc... and there's an additional fee for that -- can't remember what that is because we're not currently using Pictage much anymore for online proofing.
When I was uploading images to Pictage, we usually saved the images as JPEGs in Photoshop with JPEG quality 10, since you're uploading the full-res image to Pictage which can take TIME. Quality 11 or 12 only doubled or tripled the upload time without any noticeable difference in print quality.
On the plus side, uploading full-res JPEGs means Pictage becomes a "back-up site" of sorts for your images. On the negative side, it means you're uploading fully edited images that take time to create and time to upload -- as opposed to uploading reasonably sized "thumbnails" that you can later enhance if someone actually orders it.
So you have to look at what works best for your business model.
Hope that helps.
David
P.S. I should also mention that I think Pictage also offers something like "custom prints" which means they'll do facial retouching, glare removal, etc... and there's an additional fee for that -- can't remember what that is because we're not currently using Pictage much anymore for online proofing.
David is correct.
When you upload to Pictage you must be certain it is a final printable image. What I do depends if we are talking weddings or portrait work. I treat them a little different.
The way I do it is that I do basic correction... color, WB, brightness, contrast etc. To all my images. I don't do any major retouching unless is something to obvious or that woulc hurt my chances of selling that image. I may select some images (my favorites, usually) to do some extra work, effects, etc. Theses are images that I think it may have an extra value. Then I upload them to Pictage.
The client can select size, sepia or B/W and in some cases border treatment. Pictage also offer retouching services that clients can choose if they want for a fee.
If you want to be able to allow clients the opportunity to ask you to do some kind of special treatment to the images online you can work a system by which the client places those particular images in a folder with notes as to what they want. The you can do the work on the images and add them to the online event when you are done making them available for the client to purchase.
Hope it helps you some...
When you upload to Pictage you must be certain it is a final printable image. What I do depends if we are talking weddings or portrait work. I treat them a little different.
The way I do it is that I do basic correction... color, WB, brightness, contrast etc. To all my images. I don't do any major retouching unless is something to obvious or that woulc hurt my chances of selling that image. I may select some images (my favorites, usually) to do some extra work, effects, etc. Theses are images that I think it may have an extra value. Then I upload them to Pictage.
The client can select size, sepia or B/W and in some cases border treatment. Pictage also offer retouching services that clients can choose if they want for a fee.
If you want to be able to allow clients the opportunity to ask you to do some kind of special treatment to the images online you can work a system by which the client places those particular images in a folder with notes as to what they want. The you can do the work on the images and add them to the online event when you are done making them available for the client to purchase.
Hope it helps you some...
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