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Sending images to us
Posted 7 July 2011 in Useful stuff
Sending us logos?
As well as creating logos, we often need to receive them to design other projects. Depending on what we’ll be using your logo for, we’ll need you to supply it in different file formats. If you don’t have your logo or illustration in a suitable format or at all, we can recreate it for you but this will incur an extra cost.
Sending us other images?
Whatever project we’re doing for you, you cannot send us images you’ve ‘liberated’ from the Internet. That includes any website that’s not yours and yes, even from Google images. If you don’t have the original image or photograph, the chances are that you don’t have permission to use it. It’s also likely to be too low quality for any of your projects. We can source images and photographs for you, or draw those images for you, or even have the photograph commissioned and we can quote for any of these options if you need them.
Don’t worry if you don’t have the relevant software programs to check the resolution and colour settings of your logo and images, you can send them to us and we’ll let you know if they’re suitable.
Artwork formats for print projects
These need to be high resolution and at a minimum of 300dpi (dots per inch). Any artwork less than 300dpi will print blurry and look a bit like our logo below. (This was done intentionally!)
We can’t increase the resolution of any images supplied. If your artwork appears really small, it would suggest it’s low resolution and although we can increase the size of an image, it will reduce the quality of it.
E.g. If we stretch it from this 
it'll look like this! 
Files for printing need to be in either spot colours (pantone references) or CMYK (4-colour process)/
Suitable formats include the following;
.eps
.tiff
.jpg
.bmp
.ai (Illustrator file)
.pdf (press-ready file)
Artwork formats for any online projects
These files can be used on your website, email campaigns & pretty much anything that doesn’t get printed. The images can be low resolution and as low as 72dpi. Files for online projects need to be in RGB colours, which are better suited to viewing on monitors.
Suitable formats include the following;
.eps
.tiff
.jpg
.bmp
.ai (Illustrator file)
.pdf (press-ready file)
Any questions, give us a call on 01923 262189 or drop us an email! If you're trying to send us a huge file and can't upload it to our server, try using www.yousendit.com or www.transferbigfiles.com.
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