Photo Stamping?
LimeLight
Registered Users Posts: 1 Beginner grinner
New to SmugMug. I am loading up my images to an album and I have watermarks on my images. I have two questions for ya. First, when my customers go to check out and they choose an image that requires cropping, will they be the one who is responsible for cropping?
Second, I am interested in applying like a stamp of my business in the lower right hand corner of all printed photos. Is this something the printing lab can do? Or is this something I will need to add to the photo before uploading? Its a concern to me to apply the stamp before upload because im afraid the customer will crop it off. Or is there a particular crop size that would be best in photoshop prior to uploading?
Sorry so many questions, just hit a huge stumbling block.
Thanks.
Second, I am interested in applying like a stamp of my business in the lower right hand corner of all printed photos. Is this something the printing lab can do? Or is this something I will need to add to the photo before uploading? Its a concern to me to apply the stamp before upload because im afraid the customer will crop it off. Or is there a particular crop size that would be best in photoshop prior to uploading?
Sorry so many questions, just hit a huge stumbling block.
Thanks.
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Proof Delay will solve all your problems... sort of.
It lets you fix your customers' crops before prints get shipped and lets you replace the image with a new version... such as with your stamp in the right place. The only problem is SmugMug's severe limitation that you can only replace the image once for a given order... if someone orders two different crops (due to paper size) of the same image, you have to place your stamp in a spot that works for both of them. And the "stamped" version replaces the original in your gallery. If you don't want the stamp showing in the gallery, you need to replace the image again with the original after finalizing the order.
We should have the option to either replace the original or to just replace it in that particular order.
Dave
So do the cropping to the aspect ratio you want to sell.
Q2 - Signatures - have not got all my files done yet but when I sell a file I place a signature on it approx 1.5" from the right side and the right bottom.......this will normally keep any farther cropping from interfering with the signature.......
Unles the lab is willing to actually do gold fiol stamoing I prefer to sign my photos using a pen and wacom tablet......now that I upgraded my PS i have to remake the signture action ......within the action it places the signature on the photo them I move it around on the layer to where I want it (some photos require different placement then I flatten the layers before saving..........the signature is the very last thing I do......prior to the signature is the upresing in genuine fractals and the sharpening using unsharp mask then I add the signature........that way it loos normal and not sharpened.........I also make the original signature with white font.....then I color it.........I have decided that having 2 signature actions would be better...one in a gold and one in silver, just as if I was actually signing the phtos with a Sanford Prismacolor paint pen (these are acid free paint pens and won't harm the photos)
Good Luck
Edit: i forgot that if a lab will gold foil stamp for you then you will have to have made the printing slugs ( a small metal bar , usually al. or lead, with your signature to be stamped from........I did this over 25 yrs ago and the cost was around $75 for 4 slugs.....