How Create Y'all Post Large Images Of Your Artwork?

This post examines how people brand large images available to me together with how y'all brand large images available to others.

As I review fine art competitions, opened upward exhibitions together with major exhibitions inwards national galleries I larn access to a lot of really large high quality, high resolution images of artwork.  However these high resolution  images are exclusively rarely sent to me via email.

Picselect website

Here's a summary of the ways that galleries brand images available to me.

• some galleries host their images on their ain website inwards secure space.  I had to provide credentials together with last approved earlier I could travel inwards this space.
• some galleries role a secure hosting website which is non the same equally their ain website.  The Press Association's PicSelect is 1 such site

This is the Press Association's premier publicity distribution service, supplying thousands of print-quality images, video together with well files into the hands of influential journalists together with editors at the pump of the media industry.

YouSendIt website

• some galleries role software together with cloudbased computing to give y'all access to files which are also large to e-mail - using software such as YouSendIt
• I hardly always larn sent a CD alongside images.

With the exception of the latter, what they all convey inwards mutual is that all I larn is a link to the image.  

This tin last either a hyperlink inwards a press liberate or on a website or inwards an email.

Interestingly, the exclusively people who transportation me large images tend to last artists or pocket-size galleries who are non tech savvy.

Maybe it's fourth dimension that artists together with smaller galleries got rather to a greater extent than sophisticated virtually how they brand high character images available to potential buyers together with reviewers?

Or perchance they convey already?

How create y'all transportation your large high character images?

Tell me what types of services together with methods y'all currently role to transportation large really large high character images to potential purchasers, clients or galleries.  

This mightiness last inwards the context of:

• digital entry to fine art competitions or opened upward exhibitions, 
• submissions to galleries, 
• illustration travel for clients or 
• information for prospective purchasers.

Please respond the next queries and/or exit a comment below together with I'll role the data to aid part data alongside a wider circle of artists virtually electrical flow together with best practices for sending images.

• Do y'all transportation images compressed or uncompressed? (eg jpeg or Tif?)
• Do y'all nil files?
• Do y'all voluntarily limit the file size? (if together with then what form of limit create y'all use?)
• If no prescribed method is stipulated, create y'all role specific software or cloud services to transmit images?
• Please dot whether y'all are an creative someone or a gallery when responding.

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