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The originals are at 1600x1200 (around 500kb), but I have been resizing them to 800*600 (100kb) so they don't take as long to upload over my dialup connection.
At the moment I am getting a lot of people looking at the photos section of my site, but I am wondering whether I should provide an option to let people download the full sized photos so they can make their own prints of them (usually $1.50 per print at the stores I go to.)
Also I have had a few requests for sets of photos from particular events on CD. I usually just send a copy of the originals in case they want to edit them. Should I send the ones I have edited as well if they don't know how to do this?
Thanks.
...when sending out CDs of photos, include copies of the 50K, 100K and unedited images.
That's what I'd do, anyway. :)
If you don't have one, you can easily download a free jpeg resizer/optimizer from a download site. The best ones show the original image on the left and the optimized one on the right - with a 'slider' under the original. The further you slide along the more the image is optimized - just stop when you find a happy medium between file-size and quality.
You could use a micro-payment system to sell your pics. For example: reverse-sms. Your visitors text a number + a keyword of your choice. They recieve a text back (instantly) with a code which they can use to get the pic. Their bill is charged, say $3 and the reverse-sms company give you $1.50. You could do this to sell a single picture or batch of pictures.
Their are of course, other versions of micro-payments and credit-card processors. The problem with the latter is that can't really charge less than $5.
Hope it helps,
HarlsenC
