Scanning and Photographing • Digitizing your Art • Image File Services
We have three digitizing levels depending on your image file needs.
1. Digitizing Services – (for in-house printing)
Creating digital files for in-house printing – When having your paintings scanned or photographed and printed with us; we will provide you with a cleaned up, cropped, and technically adjusted colour file in tiff, jpg and a small jpg for social media or email sharing.
We will create in-house calibrated files to provide you with your requested printing. These final calibrated files are in a format that only professional print software will open and recognize and we are not able to share those files. All other files are also archived
What you will receive/have access to:
1. Cleaned, cropped and technically colour adjusted files for default printing and sharing, full size tiff and sharable jpgs supplied.
2. (upon request only) Master image – no adjustments, colour tags attached
3. Full archiving services – Your master and print files are keep in our archive for future print orders. All files are provided at the time in which the services are requested. Future access to your files are available (when possible) for a de-archiving fee of $10 per image
2. Digitizing Services (no in-house printing)
Creating digital files only – When having your paintings scanned or photographed (but not printed), we will provide you with a master scan (with colour tags) for future calibration at the source of where you print/proof. These files are not print ready, they are ready to start calibrating and preparing to print. This process is entirely output specific, so no adjustments are made. This is how professional files are transferred not knowing the output device. If requested, we can also provide you with a cropped, cleaned and technically adjusted file (to industry standards) for social media. For such jobs, we do not keep your files archived, please have your files safely stored away when received.
What you will receive/have access to:
1. Master image – no adjustments, colour tags attached.
2. (upon request only) Cleaned and cropped files for default printing and sharing, full size and sharable jpgs supplied
3. No archiving services – Please note these files are not archived in our data base
3. Digitizing Services for Portfolio & Social Media (no in-house printing)
Creating digital files only – When having your paintings scanned or photographed (but not printed) for social media or your portfolio, we will provide you with a cropped, cleaned and technically adjusted file (to industry standards) for social media and web portfolios. For such jobs, we do not keep your files archived, please have your files safely stored away when received.
What you will receive/have access to:
1. Cleaned and cropped files for default printing, sharing, and portfolio – full size and smaller sharable jpgs supplied
2. No archiving services – Please note these files are not archived in our data base
Image File Management
We recommend that you store your files where you can access them easily in the future, and back them up as they are an important documentation of your body of work. We archive your calibrated print image files for future print jobs. These files are in a format that only professional print software will open and recognize, therefore not available for sharing. All sharable files are provided to you for free when you have your paintings digitized. If you have printed your image files with us, we will keep copies of your sharable files so you can requested to have them de-archived in the future. Due to the time consuming process of accessing your files, a de-archiving fee of $10 per image applies.
Archive Disclaimer
Digital file storage is provided at no cost for all files printed or managed with our company (backed-up, on and off-site). We do our very best to back up and archive all of our clients’ work, but cannot guarantee against acts of god, unforeseeable circumstances, or events beyond our control. Image files are always available (at no cost) when you digitize your art. Alternatively, we can provide a back-up of your archived files for a fee. Please keep copies of your image files stored in a safe place as they are an important documentation of your body of work.