Uploading Images with Logos

justus

I feel like I'm on the bottom of the food chain here, but I am having a hard time grasping how to add my logo once pictures are purchased. I am comfortable with my logo brush, etc but my question is:

When a photo is ordered, since I upload based on multiple size orders, how do I know if my logo will appear to scale on each purchased photo?

For example, If a client orders a 4 x 6 and an 11 x 14 of the same print, I then re-upload the photo after the order, adding the logo. How do you know if the logo will appear to scale on both photos, since the upload needs to be big enough to facilitiate both the 11 x 14 and the smaller print?

Hope I'm not being too confusing, I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around this one....:scratch

Allen

justus wrote:

I feel like I'm on the bottom of the food chain here, but I am having a hard time grasping how to add my logo once pictures are purchased. I am comfortable with my logo brush, etc but my question is:

When a photo is ordered, since I upload based on multiple size orders, how do I know if my logo will appear to scale on each purchased photo?

For example, If a client orders a 4 x 6 and an 11 x 14 of the same print, I then re-upload the photo after the order, adding the logo. How do you know if the logo will appear to scale on both photos, since the upload needs to be big enough to facilitiate both the 11 x 14 and the smaller print?

Hope I'm not being too confusing, I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around this one....

Are you confusing the logo with the watermark? Watermarks do not get
printed, they only show on the display photos.

Your logo is part of the jpg if you're adding it before upload and however it
looks will be printed.

justus

Adding Logo to purchased photos
Thanks. I think I'll try uploading a few photos, then order a couple different sized photos to test. I guess I'm trying to analyze too much. You're saying if I add my logo prior to any uploads, that it will appear as such on any sized photo a client orders? I guess I was just questioning that since the size of my uploaded photos is large enough to incorporate a large mounted canvas sized photo, but clients could also just order a 5 x 7 for example.

Sorry for sounding like a newbie, but I did just switch to digital and am still in a learning curve!

pilotdave

Well I think you have a valid point. SmugMug has an issue that you can't replace a single photo with multiple versions when someone orders multiple sizes of the same photo.

If you wanted to add a signature to your prints, scaled appropriately for the size ordered, you can only get it right for one size.

I'd rather be able to use the proof feature to tell smugmug what picture to use for each item in the order (even if multiple items are the same photo in different sizes). I don't necessarily want to replace the original photo I uploaded with the version I'd like to send to that customer.

Dave

justus

Logo
That was my original concern. The only way I can think of to get the logo to scale for each photo ordered is to upload one at a time, as they are ordered, which is not effective. If someone orders an 11 x 14 and a 4 x 6, I can't upload two photos to accomodate the orders.

This can't be rocket science....now I'm really confused!

justus

Logo
To answer the original reply, no I'm not confusing watermarks with logos. I have had NUMEROUS prints used in advertising in a local magazine, and the custom is in horse photos that the photographer's logo identifies the photographer in cases where photo credit isn't given. I'm just wanting to show my logo on ordered photos, which is standard in the horse photo world.