On July 12th, I recieved a personal email from Microsoft. It appears they've gone though my online photo albums (all of them, so they looked at hundreds of pictures!) and found some they liked:
"Hello <Glitch>:
My name is T..., and I am a content coordinator with the Windows Personalization Gallery.
Blah blah ... and are interested in possibly adding some of your photos the gallery! Here are the images we found particularly interesting:
<thumbnails here>
This is fantastic news for me. Unfortunately, they don't offer any money, but it's huge exposure for someone who is trying to make the leap to professional photographer.
But I have a problem. They want photos that are "larger than 1920x1200 at 96 dpi" ... this isn't a problem for the photos they wanted except one, which I took in 2005 with a digital camera from 2002. It's only 1600x1200. I could just bring it into photoshop, enlarge it to an acceptable size, save it, and send it off, but I wanted to know, is there a better way?
On a side note, don't worry about any of the legal stuff. I am not sending them originals (I never sell or give use of those), I am to be credited on the image and in the meta data, and I still withhold my copyright to them. The contract they sent was simple and mostly was "These are really yours, right?" which they are.
Edit: The attachment has been deleted. Shouldn't matter pertaining to the question anyway.
"Hello <Glitch>:
My name is T..., and I am a content coordinator with the Windows Personalization Gallery.
Blah blah ... and are interested in possibly adding some of your photos the gallery! Here are the images we found particularly interesting:
<thumbnails here>
This is fantastic news for me. Unfortunately, they don't offer any money, but it's huge exposure for someone who is trying to make the leap to professional photographer.
But I have a problem. They want photos that are "larger than 1920x1200 at 96 dpi" ... this isn't a problem for the photos they wanted except one, which I took in 2005 with a digital camera from 2002. It's only 1600x1200. I could just bring it into photoshop, enlarge it to an acceptable size, save it, and send it off, but I wanted to know, is there a better way?
On a side note, don't worry about any of the legal stuff. I am not sending them originals (I never sell or give use of those), I am to be credited on the image and in the meta data, and I still withhold my copyright to them. The contract they sent was simple and mostly was "These are really yours, right?" which they are.
Edit: The attachment has been deleted. Shouldn't matter pertaining to the question anyway.
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