What is the best Photos size to upload?

PilotGarrett3374

So I am a newbie here on smugmug and could not find anything or anywhere to pose this question to the general audience. What is the most popular size of photo that you are uploading? I shoot a Canon 7D which gives me a 3:2 ratio... Are you just uploading the original size and then letting your customers crop as they wish upon checkout? Or are you cropping before and only allowing certain size photos to be purchased to match how you cropped? Can anybody shed some light on a good practice to get into?

Thanks

-G

SmugMugHeroPamela

Hi G,

It actually depends. Most do upload the original aspect ratio and allow to custom crop in shopping cart. Here's a help page on cropping in check out http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93268

The only way to not allow certain sizes is to not allow that option when setting up your price-list in your shopping cart. If you have a business account you can assign specific price-lists to certain galleries and folders. So if you have an image you do NOT want cropped, you can only allow specific sizes in your price-list and then assign that price list to the image.

So to answer your question, most users upload and allow customers to crop upon checkout.