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Submitting stories to our publications

Are you interested in submitting an article to one of our publications? Click here for our Style Guide that will provide some necessary information.

Submitting photos:

Image Spec for photos

The quality of the images on your products depends on the quality of the images you upload. Below are some tips and guidelines for ensuring the best print quality for your image.

File Formats and Compression

JPG – JPG’s support over 16 million colors, but slightly “distort” the image to compress the file size. For photos, the human eye cannot tell the subtle changes in color, but along straight edges and in pictures with large solid colors, distortion becomes very apparent.

The following formats have long uploading times and are not recommended:

PSD – PhotoShop Document supports millions of colors. This file format also has exceptional image quality, but it does not compress your file so file sizes will be large and uploading times will be long.

TIFF – Tag Image File Format is similar to a PSD file but the layers are flattened. Uploading times will be long.

Resolution and Sizing

Resolution is what determines if your pictures look “chunky” when you print them. All computer pictures are made up of small dots. Resolution is how many dots in an inch, often referred to as DPI or “Dots Per Inch”. Your computer monitor generally displays less than 100 DPI while a printer usually prints at 300 to over 1000 DPI. What looks good on your screen will not necessarily look good printed. When you create a picture you will want to follow the guidelines presented in the Image Resolution Guidelines (see chart below), specific to each product.

When creating images, start your image at 200-300 DPI

What are Resolution and DPI?

Resolution and DPI are often used interchangeably, but they are quite different.

Any digital image is composed of pixels. The pixels are the small colored square dots that can sometimes be seen when images are enlarged too much, or if you look at your screen close enough. Resolution is the number of pixels in the horizontal direction by the number of pixels in the vertical direction. For example, a picture with 1200 pixels at the horizontal direction and 2100 pixels at the vertical direction would have a resolution of 1200 x 2100 pixels (pronounced 1200 by 2100 pixels).

Maximum file sizes for each format

(before receiving timeout errors while uploading) If you are receiving a timeout error, check to see how large your file is. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, files over 7 MB can timeout.

JPG – 7 MB

Extra Tips:

1. – Print the picture yourself on your own printer at the same size you want it to appear on your products. If it looks “chunky” or “dirty” on your printer, it will look “chunky” or “dirty” on your products too.

2. – If this doesn’t work try again or call Bob Oller @ Oller studios and he’ll try to walk you thru it…