hey- so i'm about to get started with putting a package out there for senior pictures, and i'm not a professional. so i'm charging $80/location and saying i'll do up to four locations- fair enough.
I was planning on just handing the customer a cd or thumbdrive with the originals and edits on it- and letting them print from the disk or drive on their own time, since printing packages etc get really complicated. Any suggestions? should I load the pictures onto a "share-site" so that the customer can print straight from there and give them a disk or drive also? or just hand them the disk/drive with their pictures and say 'have fun'?(:
and if you do reccommend that I do the share-site which one would you reccommend? shutterfly, snapfish, fotki? I have a PC, so no mac stuff for me(:
1. don't give your customer your originals. ever.
2. use a site like smugmug to set up a gallery if you don't have your own website.
3. if they are going to be printed, you have to use some color management tools to make sure they are going to print correctly - otherwise you could run into some funky crap and have a pissed off customer. ie. gamut warnings, RGB to CMYK, etc.
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1. good point. lol - thank you
2. do you think smugmug is my best option?
3. thank you thank you. that's a really good thing to remember/think aout!!!!
@tigerdreamer i have a good book as well if you like books (i do) ISBN 978-0-240-80649-5 it is out of print but i got mine on ebay pretty cheap.
As well, you can use a calibration tool like ColorMunki Photo to calibrate your screen and create ICC profiles for different paper stocks with your printer.
@tigerdreamer@sdpace just noticed that book is available for kindle from the UK amazon site. If you cant find a hard-copy on ebay, then you could download the kindle app onto your computer and then view the ebook version there.
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2. use a site like smugmug to set up a gallery if you don't have your own website.
3. if they are going to be printed, you have to use some color management tools to make sure they are going to print correctly - otherwise you could run into some funky crap and have a pissed off customer. ie. gamut warnings, RGB to CMYK, etc.
1. good point. lol - thank you
2. do you think smugmug is my best option?
3. thank you thank you. that's a really good thing to remember/think aout!!!!
http://www.nyu.edu/its/pubs/connect/fall04/pdfs/smith_color.pdf
As well, you can use a calibration tool like ColorMunki Photo to calibrate your screen and create ICC profiles for different paper stocks with your printer.
http://365project.org/discuss/tips-n-tricks/11893/help-it-s-my-first-wedding-any-tips