I have a client that wants to sell their photos online. ( awesome!!) Now mind you the clients in this scenario are not computer literate. We are running CFMX 7.02 and Alagad Image Component 2.0. So here is what we designed: Upload interface, they can select the photo from their hard drive (basically their Kodak CD from developing), upload it to the website. We in turn change the resolution to either 225 x 150 or 150 x 225 depending on the original resolution. We found those resolutions to work well when displaying three across a page per row. Problem is it will not retain a crisp enough look for the client. I tried explaining that the original photo being 19 megs in file size with a resolution of 3504 x 2336 when scaled down will not be as crisp as the original. (Unless I am using the tag wrong) Oh also we are adding text to the image for copyright protection. So there are 2 photos on the site after upload: 1. Thumbnail size (usually around 90K) 2. Original size ( + copyright text) (varies in file size/resolution) (Largest I have seen was 19megs). Here are my questions: 1. Has/Does anyone designed / maintain a photography website that uploads photos? If yes, do you convert the original or does the client? 2. If you convert the photo for the client do you use Alagad, another web graphics tag, or do you use Adobe Fireworks/Photoshop and convert it before you upload? 3. The client basically does not want to do any computer work but take their photos from the CD, put them on the website, and them be as crisp and have the 2 sizes available for the customers. How would you handle it? (They do not want to pay to have someone to upload the photos for them. they want it done automatically). Thoughts / Suggestions??
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