Metallic print order ? and a misc ?

rich56k

I just ordered my first metallic print 8x12" (order# 840357) to see what all the great comments are about...

It's a style I'm selling more of (hi-res scan of articles I've published with b/ground & text added) to those featured in said story - normally I print these locally as 12x18" lustre and mount on gator board -

I inadvertently ordered as 'auto color' although the background color was specific to my needs - will the 'auto' color process alter it greatly? can you change to 'true color' if yes?

Lastly is smugmug still (?) doing backups to 3 states? Do I need to back-up manually - had been doing dvd back-ups - now I come to find out how unreliable this can be.. can I count on smugmug to have safe, accessible back-ups of all uploaded images?

thanks
rich56k

Andy

Rich the print will be gorgeous.

We do backups in multiple data centers BUT BUT you must know that SmugMug is not archival - we're 6 years going and we don't lose photos but if you want perma storage you should consider a SmugVault
http://www.smugmug.com/price/smugvault.mg

rich56k

Andy wrote:

Rich the print will be gorgeous.

We do backups in multiple data centers BUT BUT you must know that SmugMug is not archival - we're 6 years going and we don't lose photos but if you want perma storage you should consider a SmugVault
http://www.smugmug.com/price/smugvault.mg

Re: print -excellent! Thanks Andy

Re: back-ups...I think I'm confused on this 'archival' word- at this point I'm still doing all jpeg files,
and is there a point when my galleries (both public and private) won't any longer be accessible?

Smug vault seems to be 1-for various file formats (not an issue yet) 2- another cost to do what I thought was already being done... (not that its bad to have 'permanent' back up -whatever that really is)

Not trying to be difficult - just don't quite get it

If I were to do smugvault can I do as a gallery by gallery (or even site wide) decision or will all need to be reuploaded...

Thanks

rich

Andy

Rich, your photos will always be accessible as long as you keep paying. But we don't guarantee archival storage. But we're also really, really safe We have mulitple copies of your photos in multiple places.

SmugVault is if you're looking for long term safe storage.
You can do just a gallery. Just a photo even

rich56k

Andy wrote:

Rich, your photos will always be accessible as long as you keep paying. But we don't guarantee archival storage. But we're also really, really safe We have mulitple copies of your photos in multiple places.

SmugVault is if you're looking for long term safe storage.
You can do just a gallery. Just a photo even

Andy,

Thanks for the clarification

Smugmug - Still the best deal in town!!

rich