Oriel Cambria - Digitizing your work

We accept images in the following formats

Original art work, if A4 or less.
Good quality prints.
Transparencies, no larger than 35mm. (If larger extra scanning costs may be incurred)
PC formatted 3.5" floppy disk / Iomega 100Mb ZIP disk
Kodak Photo-CD ROM
Email (please attach image to message, no larger than 30k for inclusion in directory please)

There are two ways in which to digitise your images for inclusion on our Web site, direct and indirect scanning. With direct scanning the original is either photographed using a digital camera or scanned using a flat bed scanner. In the indirect process the original is first photographed using conventional print or transparency film, the print or slide is either scanned using a flat bed scanner, 35mm scanner or stored on Kodak Photo CD-ROM (ask your photo-processor for further details).

We accept images either 3.5” floppy disk (PC format), Photo-CD ROM or the newer Iomega 100Mb ZIP disks. It does not matter what type of file format the images are in but we prefer .jpg, BMP (bitmap) or TIF (Tagged Image File Format). If you have your images in PhotoShop format that is acceptable.

Keep your image file size as small as possible and remember that screen resolution does not normally exceed 96 dots per inch so scanning at 1200dpi for large images is pretty much a waste of time (it won't fit on a single floppy disk).

Do ensure that you have proper colour saturation and if possible scan at 24 bits per pixel at the highest resolution you can (see above). Fine tune your resulting image on screen with the correct Gamma setting for your monitor. Try and keep the final image size 40k or less.

We will accept images via email but please warn us before sending, stating number and total image file size.