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« on: July 26, 2013, 03:49 »
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First of all, what a fantastic idea and what a fantastic program/theme.

I've been setting up a small shop made in Joomla, but yesterday I closed it and made one in Symbiostock instead. Everything is going great, but then I have a couple of issues with the Large filesize.

1. I have always uploaded my photos with 240 dpi, and then the sites have scaled them after their needs. Does this mean I have to redevelop all my photos to meet the 300 dpi in Symbiostock - or is there a smarter way to do it?

2. When I make a test buy of a Large photo and download it, it will have .html in the end of the filename: for instance 22-large.jpg.html. If i remove .html, the file is fine?

3. I read in a post at this site, that the files is sitting at wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content, but that only seems to be the microphoto and the watermark photo. Where is the Larger photo?

My site is at http://danishstockphoto.lk5.dk [nofollow] and I am looking forward to just start uploading - and renaming  : ) - all my photos. I believe this is gonna be huge.


Thanks a lot for this opportunity.


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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2013, 03:55 »
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3. I read in a post at this site, that the files is sitting at wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content, but that only seems to be the microphoto and the watermark photo. Where is the Larger photo?

Full size images are stored in /symbiostock_rf

« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2013, 03:58 »
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Hi Niels and Kliim
Welcome to Symbostock and you have made a good start.

1 300 is a good baseline for print, the other sites will have rescaled the rather than changing dpi I would have thought

2. I had not noticed this so cannot answer

3.  The main files are at wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf  not wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf_content,

Don't forget to add Licence details to the EULA page then when your site is ready to open to the public post in this thread
http://www.microstockgroup.com/symbiostock-network-building/networking-what-are-you-looking-for-in-a-match/375/
so everyone knows you are ready for linking

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« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2013, 07:50 »
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Neils

I see this statement about dpi so many times that I begin to think I am misunderstanding it!

However, I'll have a go at explaining. A digital file as a pixel count - ie 3000 x 1500. That is all. To print a digital file in a program like Photoshop (or any other), you need to set a dots per inch (DPI) setting that logically scales the image to a physical size. So 300 dpi means my file would print at 10 x 5 inches. Nothing changes in the file when you do that (assuming you don't enable resampling) and so you can change that dpi value all day long and it would not change the underlying file.

I've seen people ask for a 240 dpi image to be sent for review (with no indication of the size they expect). That, to me, is a meaningless request but I see it all the time.

So I wasn't even aware that Symbio has any requirement for dpi (unless there is something that says that a particular file would print at a certain dimension assuming you used 300 dpi). If you use 150 dpi, it would print at twice the size - duh...

If I have been wrong on this all these year, someone please correct me!

Steve

BTW - I've never seen that .html in a downloaded jpeg. Something wrong there.

« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2013, 11:02 »
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Thanks for all answers.

@Kerioak~Christine: I found the Large images, but on my installation they are at wp-content/symbiostock_rf instead of wp-content/uploads/symbiostock_rf. Maybe the directory has been moved in a newer installation.

You are right about the EULA, and I read a thread about the diferencies in EULAS from site to site, and some wanting a common one for everybody for the costumers not to be confused. Do you know if there is a draft or anything to use - being a dane does make it a bit harder to write the legal stuff. : )

@steheap: I agree on your thoughts, but the thing is that it is prestated on the download page, that the Large image is in 300 dpi - while the three smaller is in 72 dpi - so even though it doesn't make any difference a costumer will expect to get an image in 300 dpi.

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« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2013, 12:29 »
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@steheap: I agree on your thoughts, but the thing is that it is prestated on the download page, that the Large image is in 300 dpi - while the three smaller is in 72 dpi - so even though it doesn't make any difference a costumer will expect to get an image in 300 dpi.

it doesn't really say that - it says that the file has a certain number of pixels at each file size. It also gives you an idea of how big you can print the latter two (in my case) at 300 dpi. The smaller ones are for web use and so it shows what size it will appear on a typical screen. Your original question was whether you needed to resize - the very clear answer from me is that it is "no", the dpi means nothing in terms of a digital file.

Steve

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« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2013, 12:34 »
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Here is a suggestion:

The way that it should work is that the customer should be able to enter in the DPI that they want, and the Symbiostock app would then apply this entry into the created file.  For example, if a customer buys a Large, but wants it at 200 DPI, they should be able to enter that into the system and have the system generate an image file with 200 DPI.

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« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2013, 13:20 »
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Here is a suggestion:

The way that it should work is that the customer should be able to enter in the DPI that they want, and the Symbiostock app would then apply this entry into the created file.  For example, if a customer buys a Large, but wants it at 200 DPI, they should be able to enter that into the system and have the system generate an image file with 200 DPI.

OK - I'm officially going crazy. What buyer will take a file they have paid good money for and send it straight from the file manager to a printer without looking at it in a photo editing program and maybe cropping it a little to fit with their design? As they are doing all that, they need to decide how big it needs to print. So, they adjust the dpi to fit their printer process and scale the file down to meet the physical size they want. What has Symbio got to do with any of that?

Steve

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« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2013, 14:02 »
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Here is a suggestion:

The way that it should work is that the customer should be able to enter in the DPI that they want, and the Symbiostock app would then apply this entry into the created file.  For example, if a customer buys a Large, but wants it at 200 DPI, they should be able to enter that into the system and have the system generate an image file with 200 DPI.

OK - I'm officially going crazy. What buyer will take a file they have paid good money for and send it straight from the file manager to a printer without looking at it in a photo editing program and maybe cropping it a little to fit with their design? As they are doing all that, they need to decide how big it needs to print. So, they adjust the dpi to fit their printer process and scale the file down to meet the physical size they want. What has Symbio got to do with any of that?

Steve

I was just trying to make a suggestion that would help make it easier for some customers.

For a pro that understands image sizes in MP and print sizes in DPI, then that is fine.  But there are a huge amount of people that don't understand these nuances.

We aren't sure who Symbiostock customers will be yet, but I'm betting that it won't be the monolithic ad agencies and it will rather be the mom and pop shop that doesn't understand that sort of thing, or doesn't own the software to do that sort of thing.

Anyway, it was just an idea, so feel free to shoot it down...


 

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