Hi,
I am a new member. I joined because I have some photoshop questions about my wedding CD.
I purchased the photo CD from my wedding photographer. When I got it I noticed that the size of all the photos was between 600KB and 1,200KB. I went back to the photographer and told her the file size was too small. She claimed that when you open them they get really big; around 20MB. Anyway I went to her office and asked her to demonstrate that for me, and she was not able to. Eventually she agreed to give me the photos right off her camera which were around 4MB and above.
Unfortunately that was not the end of the problem. She was working on creating a coffee table album which she outsourced to a company in China. The first time they printed it out, some of the photos were washed out. The photographer agreed to have it redone. At this point we are about ready to print it again. Before doing so I asked the photographer for a screen shot from windows explorer, showing the sizes of the original photos they used in the album. Sure enough they were all the same size as on the original CD she gave me. Most of them were less than 1,200KB. I want to ask the photographer to switch these out for the higher resolution photos she gave me the second go round on the CD. I think she is going to argue that it does not need to be done.
The album designer in China also said that when the photos are opened in photoshop they get really big; up to around 20MB.
My question is, does photoshop really have a mechanism to compress files down to less than a megabyte, and then decompress up to 20MB? Will I have print quality issues if they are using photos that were less than a MB?
Unfortunately on the CD all of the pictures of the wedding party and the family have a big sunspot in the bottom left corner. Is it an indication that she did not use a lenshood?
I would really appreciate any advice your members could give.
I am a new member. I joined because I have some photoshop questions about my wedding CD.
I purchased the photo CD from my wedding photographer. When I got it I noticed that the size of all the photos was between 600KB and 1,200KB. I went back to the photographer and told her the file size was too small. She claimed that when you open them they get really big; around 20MB. Anyway I went to her office and asked her to demonstrate that for me, and she was not able to. Eventually she agreed to give me the photos right off her camera which were around 4MB and above.
Unfortunately that was not the end of the problem. She was working on creating a coffee table album which she outsourced to a company in China. The first time they printed it out, some of the photos were washed out. The photographer agreed to have it redone. At this point we are about ready to print it again. Before doing so I asked the photographer for a screen shot from windows explorer, showing the sizes of the original photos they used in the album. Sure enough they were all the same size as on the original CD she gave me. Most of them were less than 1,200KB. I want to ask the photographer to switch these out for the higher resolution photos she gave me the second go round on the CD. I think she is going to argue that it does not need to be done.
The album designer in China also said that when the photos are opened in photoshop they get really big; up to around 20MB.
My question is, does photoshop really have a mechanism to compress files down to less than a megabyte, and then decompress up to 20MB? Will I have print quality issues if they are using photos that were less than a MB?
Unfortunately on the CD all of the pictures of the wedding party and the family have a big sunspot in the bottom left corner. Is it an indication that she did not use a lenshood?
I would really appreciate any advice your members could give.