Sending Digital Photos...Help!
Both Nick and myself work from photos and they are key to a good portrait. The clearer and better quality the photo, in all honesty, the better your portrait will be. For actual help on taking photos and advice in that area please visit our Pet Portraits Photography Tips page >>
If you have already taken your photos, you have viewed them on your computer and you are happy with the results, you next need to email them to us so we can paint from them. Easy!...or is it?
Often clients have difficulty emailing photos as some email software can reduce the file size of the images for email. For instance if you email photos via Picassa it can reduce the images for you and email them almost without you noticing what it has done. This is because for the most part, the software is wizard driven - its leading you through the process being very helpful sending your emails and photos very quickly though the internet. However! This isn't helpful to us as we need to see the photo the original size they came from the camera.
Hopefully this page will help our clients email the original size photos to us. Unfortunately I am unable to give step by step help for everyone individually as everyone is undoubtedly using different software from picassa, aol, gmail, outlook express, windows live, yahoo, bt online mail - or even email photos from a mobile phone....the list is endless.
What I can do is give you a little guidance to try to email the photos the long way around, hopefully enabling you to have full control over your emails. If, after you have read this page, you need to ask for advice please don't hesitate to contact me at any time.
Emaling your original size camera photos....
Digital cameras these days should be taking a decent sized photos. Therefore the photos that you get from your camera, as long as you don't do anything to them, the dimensions should be in their thousands - not in their hundreds. So for instance my camera photo dimensions are 4592 x 3056. Working on a pc i can find this information out by either right clicking the image and viewing the properties or left clicking an image once in the folder and the information shows at the bottom of the folder.
So once you have your photos on your computer and they are still their original size, we need to email them. We don't want to use any programs to help us - all we need is your email software and the photos. My advice would be to send only one or two at a time to start with, so choose your favorites to send at the start.
Open your email software and start a new email to me - petportraitartist@gmail.com What we are looking for is the 'attachment' feature in your email software. This is usually just above the area where you type a message. It can sometimes say - 'add attachment', 'add photos' etc. Click the button and it will open a dialogue box to browse to your computer. Locate your photos folder, open and click once on one of the images. Click open / attach and it should have attached that image to the email.
If at any time the software asks you to reduce the files size, either decline - or try to choose the largest file size you can.
Click send on the email and we will let you know what happens at our end!
Alternative ways of getting your photos to us....
If all else fails and you are unable to email us the original file size of your photos there are alternatives ways below to send us the photos. We need to try these methods before you print and send photos in hard copy. Home printed, or even printed photos from kodak etc are never as good as seeing the original digital version. This would be the last resort. Have a look at the options below to see what would be best for you.
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