2009 September | Design and Photography Highlights

Cutcaster speaking at ASPP event in Boston- Come Join us

Sep 302009

For all the Boston and Northeast Cutcaster’s out there, John will be speaking at an ASPP (American Society of Picture Professionals) event on Thursday October 8, 2009 at 6:00 – 8:30pm at Pearson Educations office building. The event will cover new licensing models and the best ways to price your content so it is right up Cutcaster’s alley. To attend the event and root us on you can sign up via Evite at http://bit.ly/11PdUcS. It will be held at Pearson Education’s offices in Boston on the 9th Floor in the Cafeteria, so come hungry for food and knowledge .

The panelist include:

John Griffin, CEO, Cutcaster
John founded Cutcaster in 2008, a community based marketplace for buying, selling and requesting digital media content.
www.cutcaster.com

Pat Hunt,Managing Director of Huntstock
Pat Hunt is a writer and workshop leader for the stock photo industry, and managing Director of Huntstock in Boston.

Rob Sylvan, Site Director for iStockphoto.com
Rob is a photographer, trainer, author and web developer. Â In addition to being NAPP’s Lightroom Helpdesk Specialist, he also writes the “Under the Loupe” column for Photoshop User magazine.

Christopher Kenneally, Director, Creative Relations, Copyright Clearance Center
At the CCC, Chris is responsible for organizing and hosting programs that address the business needs of authors and publishers. He will be speaking on behalf of ozmo.com

Jean Howard, Account Executive, Editorial Sales for Aurora Photos
Jean entered the stock photography world at Stock, Boston where she became the Manager of Research and Editing. She has been with Aurora since the summer of 2003.

And the Moderator is Mark Ippolito
Mark has held senior leadership positions with Digital Railroad, Getty Images, Corbis, PhotoDisc, and Comstock. In January 2009 he founded a consulting service in marketing and business development for clients in digital media and online advertising.

Thanks to Sharon Donahue, Mark Ippolito and everyone at ASPP. It’s going to be a marvelous event and see you all on Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 6:00 – 8:30 pm in Beantown.

Resizing your images without quality loss

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Sep 102009

We get emails now and again from puzzled photo buyers about image resolutions at Cutcaster and what size photos they need for their specific project now that we offer different image resolutions at Cutcaster. Photo resolution has to be one of the most confusing and misunderstood aspects of digital image editing. Photo resolution only matters if you’re going to print the image in a book or magazine for example. If you are only going to use the photo online, you should focus your attention on the pixel dimension. At any resolution, you can measure the pixel widths and heights. It’s important to be very careful though how you change it. In order to best protect yourself, open the Image Size dialog in Photoshop and “uncheck” the Resample Image check-box at the bottom left. This has the effect of locking the pixel data, thus locking in quality. This is where it can be kind of confusing because the onscreen image won’t change at all and you can only see the truth by opening the Image Size dialogue box.

If you have any question about photo resolutions or pixel dimensions, please leave a comment below or email help AT cutcaster DOT com.