Stock list

[misskitty]

I need to develop a stock list. I take photos with my digital camera. Should I take the photos at the highest resolution & setting that my camera will take? Would that be better for anyone wanting to purchase the photos? Can I e-mail the photos at a high resolution or do I need to send a smaller size? Thanks

[robertwgross]

Absolutely shoot at the best resolution that your camera can do.

Then, once you have your best images safely stored (and backed up), then make JPEGs of very limited resolution. You can use those on a web page or send them to a prospective client/customer. However, if you do it right, the limited-res JPEG won't be terribly valuable to steal and use by people who don't want to pay. The JPEGs that I publish are less than 1% of the full TIFFs that I store.

---Bob Gross---

[misskitty]

Great idea to send the smaller resolution. But how can I make them smaller? I plan to store the photos on a cd.
Thanks

[robertwgross]

By "smaller", I mean lower in resolution and higher in compression factor.

I shoot digital images, which are 18 or 36 MB in TIF. I also shoot slide film, and then scan the slides into TIF files of 100-150 MB each. That is the important stuff that I save to hard disk, archive to DVD or CD, etc.

Then, depending on the purpose, I make JPEG files from those. If they are for publishing to my web site, then normally I make them about 500 x 700 pixels at a maximum, sometimes smaller. JPEGs don't take up much space, so I leave them on the hard disk for quick re-use, or I can email them to a client/customer.

Right now I have about 100 GB of stored images, and only a small percentage is actively used/sold/rented.

Hard disk storage is extremely cheap. Use it.

---Bob Gross---

[misskitty]

??? Sorry to be so uneducated about this, I am a beginner & don't understand exactly how to take the digital photos (whether on my hard drive or a cd) and make them smaller! One has to talk kindergarten level to me LOL

[robertwgross]

In just about every city around where I live, there are community college classes in photography. Some just teach basic film photography, and others get into digital photography and image processing. Maybe that would be a good investment in time.

---Bob Gross---

[CyberDyneSystems]

You will need a software application that can reduce the overall dimensions of your images (as a copy! leaving the originals as full size and unharmed! ) and make the copies into more compressed jpegs.

There are a lot of applications that can do this from very pricey to very reasonable.

I highly recomend a program called ACDsee available for about $50.00

It will be a great asset to you for managing all your images in many ways,. not the least of which is that it will convert and entire folder of hundreds of images to reduced dimensions and file size with one quick operation, and rename them for you as well!

Have a look here.

http://www.acdsystems.com/English/Products/ACDSee/index

If you have any questions regarding ACDsee feel free to give me a shout :D

[scollins]

I highly recommend ACDsee to manage your photos too. I'd be lost without it.

[henkbos]

MissKitty,

I certainly do not wish to discourage you from setting up a stocklist, but it seems that you lack even the most basic fundamentals of digital photography. No problem, we all had to learn. You should however first learn these basics and then move onwards.
I suggest that you buy books, read on the internet, etc.
Although people are here to help, answering questions takes time and if the questions are so basic it will take a LOT of time. This (volunteered) forum might not be the right place to do so.

Good luck and post some shots!