help with email images...

[troyer16]

Hey all,
I recently shot a monster truck show and got some nice shots. I am contacting the truck companys and the leauge with my watermarked images inquiring if they are interested in purchasing any for advertising. Anyways i believe i should send low res images watermarked as the ones they can see if they want or not correct? What would be low res? Thanks

[Anke]

I guess you could have about 600px at the longest side and 72dpi. Why not just put them all in a secure PDF and send that?

[newbie_photog]

As long as they meet the requirements for being in this forum they will be sufficiently low res. If you have a website why not have a small web gallery and send them a link. Photoshop makes some pretty nice galleries.

[thedruid]

Set res to 72 dpi and long end of pic to 800 ppi and save as a jpg at quality of 12. This will give them a nice but sizeable low res image. For somehing of better quality down the road if they show interest you could make a 5x7 inch image at 150 dpi set jpg quality at 6, this would allow them to down load and print a sample image to pass around the office...:cool:

[primoz]

Just some off topic info guys, because it sounds pretty funny for me talking about X pix and dpi in this context... resolution doesn't have anything to do with all this. You can set it to 72, 10, 300 or 3000 and it still doesn't change anything. As long as you keep picture for example 1000 pix on longest side, resolution doesn't matter. Once when you start printing it, it does matter, but once again, not with connection to picture size in pixels, but in connection to printed picture size in cm or inches.
So if you have 1000pix wide photo, you can print 10" wide photo at 100dpi or 5" at 200dpi or 100" at 10dpi. All this from same 1000pix wide photo. So sending 1000pix photo at 72dpi is same thing as sending 1000pix at 600dpi... you can change dpi without photo being resized in pixel, but it is "resized" in inches or centimeters as print output.
And to be on topic... low resolution for sending through mail (if you are talking about previews only) is between 500 and 800pix on widest side.

[Gatorboy]

You can set it to 72, 10, 300 or 3000 and it still doesn't change anything.

BINGO! I find many threads that discuss an exact image size and then throw ppi into the equation as if that is going to somehow change the image.