Tips on how to scan images for Painet
Notes: As of July 8, 2002, Painet has changed the photographers' contract regarding delivery of digital image scans. Painet will now accept a smaller commission for sales of your images delivered as high resolution scans (16-65mb,when opened in Photoshop). Save the high resolution scans in the TIFF format.Use of LZW (lossless) compression is acceptable. Delivery of high resolution scans on CD or data DVDs is now the preferred method of image delivery. FTP is also a delivery option. If you wish to FTP to our server, email us at photogs@painetworks.com and request the FTP site address.
If you do not have a photographer's code assigned to you, email code@painetworks.com and request a photographers code prior to sending any images. Upon receipt of the code, insert the code in front of each image ID (attachment filename) being sent. Note: If you are sending CDs or DVDs of images, we can assign and attach your code for you.
If you elect to give Painet the higher commission rate, as specified in the contract, you may scan and email images using the following scanning tips.
Film scanning / 35 mm
1) Scan at 72 dpi (monitor resolution) or 90 dpi
2) Set the image size to 512 x 768 pixels (minimum)
3) Perform the scan
4) Save as JPEG file. (name the JPEG file with your Stock Identification Number. The Stock Identification Number is whatever YOU choose to name the photo scan. Note: Do not use any words or spaces in your scan name. Make certain your photographer's code precedes your Stock Identification Number and, that it ends in .JPG).
5) Send as an attachment to your e-mail message to photogs@painetworks.com or painet@stellarnet.com
- Attach up to 40 images per email.
Film scanning / other film formats and print scanning
1) Scan at 72 dpi (monitor resolution) or 90 dpi
2) Set the image size so that the minimum dimension (either vertical or horizontal) is 568 pixels.
3) Perform the scan
4) Save as JPEG file. (name the JPEG file with your Stock Identification Number. The Stock Identification Number is whatever YOU choose to name the photo scan. Note: Do not use any words or spaces in your scan name. Make certain your photographer's code precedes your Stock Identification Number and, that it ends in .JPG).
5) Send as attachment to your e-mail message to photogs@painetworks.com or painet@stellarnet.com
- Attach up to 40 images per email.
Sending images already scanned (selected from your stock or CDs or DVDs)
1) Reload the image into your image manipulation software (ie, Photoshop)
2) Scale the image
- In your image manipulation software (ie, Photoshop), scale the image so that the smallest dimension (horizontal or vertical) equals 568 pixels. Enter 568 pixels in the scaling selection for the smallest dimension (horizontal or vertical).
- Keep aspect ratio and scale the image
3) Save as JPEG file. (name the JPEG file with your Stock Identification Number. The Stock Identification Number is whatever YOU choose to name the photo scan. Note: Do not use any words or spaces in your scan name. Make certain your photographer's code precedes your Stock Identification Number and, that it ends in .JPG).
4) Send as attachment to your e-mail message to photogs@painetworks.com or painet@stellarnet.com
- Attach up to 40 images per email.
Sending images created in a digital camera
Note: Send only those images you shot and captured at a minimum of 8MB size. Then follow the instructions below.
1) Reload the image into your image manipulation software (ie, Photoshop)
2) Scale the image
- In your image manipulation software (ie, Photoshop), scale the image so that the smallest dimension (horizontal or vertical) equals 568 pixels. Enter 568 pixels in the scaling selection for the smallest dimension(horizontal or vertical).
- Keep aspect ratio and scale the image
3) Save as JPEG file. (name the JPEG file with your Stock Identification Number. The Stock Identification Number is whatever YOU choose to name the photo. Note: Do not use any words or spaces in the name. Make certain your photographer's code precedes your Stock Identification Number and, that it ends in .JPG).
4) Send as attachment to your e-mail message to photogs@painetworks.com or painet@stellarnet.com
- Attach up to 40 images per email.
NOTES (EXAMPLE):
When attaching images to an email message, make sure the attachment has your photographer's code as a prefix in the filename. In the example to follow, your attachment file name would be abc_1234.JPG . DO NOT USE WORDS OR SPACES IN THE ATTACHMENT FILENAME. It is not necessary to Zip or Stuff the attachments. They are already compressed sufficiently as JPEGS.
TYPE THE DESCRIPTIONS AND KEYWORDS IN THE EMAIL MESSAGE BODY. WE CAN ALSO EXTRACT YOUR DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE IPTC FILE INFO AREA OF YOUR IMAGES; HOWEVER, WE PREFER TO HAVE A MINIMUM SUBMISSION OF 100 IMAGES WHEN USING THE IPTC METHOD.
We need your help to present your images in the best possible way. The description should include keywords which help define the image. For example, if you took a photo of a young girl standing on an elephant, holding a rat in a cage, and the Washington memorial can be seen in the background. The typed entry (IN THE EMAIL MESSAGE BODY) might appear as:
abc_1234.JPG girl child standing elephant holding rat cage front washington memorial fear courage balance child and animal timidity bravery monument wahington dc concept contrast MR (25 words maximum)
NOTE: The underscore (_) and .JPG must appear in the typed description/keywords.
where,
abc_ is your photographer's code, and
1234 is your own personal stock ID for the image. Note: Your personal stock ID can be anything, an arbitrary name or number, or, the image ID from your database of images. It must be limited to 22 characters and/or numbers. The personal stock ID is whatever YOU choose to name the photo(s). Be sure to include the extension .JPG after the stock ID. DO NOT USE WORDS, OR SPACES, IN YOUR STOCK ID.
Once the descriptions and ID#s are received the image will be entered into the main database from which searches are made. If a search matches one of your images, the JPEG image will be e-mailed to the client. If they request a larger sized image file, we will contact you and request you upload a larger file to our FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site, or, e-mail a larger file or send the original to us. On originals, we will make the larger scan and return the image to you. We pay the FedEx charges.
We will also place your selected images on our website search engine so that our customers can perform their own searches to find images they wish to purchase. THIS NORMALLY TAKES 3-4 MONTHS.
In order for the above to work, it is vital that we be able to contact you 24 hours a day, every day of the year. If you have e-mail and check it everyday, no problem. If not, an answering machine is required.