Clipart.com and Graphic conversion questions

[Ineti]

So, the publisher I'm working with needs to have artwork provided as tiff images. Clipart.com has several pieces I'd like to use, but they don't offer tiffs as a downloadable.

Does anyone have experience taking gifs, jpgs, or eps files and converting them to tiffs? I use photoshop a lot, but havent' had to make such conversions.

I'd like to find out if it's doable before I go and buy a subscription to Clipart.

[Seanchai]

So, the publisher I'm working with needs to have artwork provided as tiff images. Clipart.com has several pieces I'd like to use, but they don't offer tiffs as a downloadable.

Does anyone have experience taking gifs, jpgs, or eps files and converting them to tiffs? I use photoshop a lot, but havent' had to make such conversions.

I'd like to find out if it's doable before I go and buy a subscription to Clipart.

I do it daily. It's definitely doable. But do you have to buy a whole subscription? Don't they sell them by piece?

Seanchai

[Darklord]

Normally just using "Save As" and choosing the graphics output type does it in most graphics software.

Try that and post back if it doesn't work.

Lee

[madelf]

Don't they sell them by piece?

Seanchai

Nope.
That's actually the beauty of clipart.com
You can buy a one week subscription for cheap and download enough pics to illustrate your whole book. Hell of a deal for a publisher on a budget.

Wait... Oh Crap!... I'm an artist. Forget I said that.
Nothing to see here, move along now...
:D


But yeah. As said above.
Download the jpg, save as tif. Shouldn't be a problem (just make sure the quality of the image is good - they sometimes vary quite a bit on that site).

[thele]

I use Clipart.com for about 25% of my internal artwork needs, and that will be increasing as my library of other art gets used.

It is great. You can download all you want with just a 1-week subscription, limited to 1000 a day I believe it was.

Of course, at this point I just buy a 1 year subscription and search for what I need.

I tried the whole "download as much as I can" route, but it is just easier keeping an ongoing subscription. At $170 a year, that comes to about $14 a month for all the internal images I could want, which I can easily make back in book sales in a week... not to mention it is far less than that "$40 per 1/4 page b+w" that artists demand these days.

Clipart.com is awesome.

~Le

[Seanchai]

Nope.
That's actually the beauty of clipart.com
You can buy a one week subscription for cheap and download enough pics to illustrate your whole book. Hell of a deal for a publisher on a budget.

True, but not all of their stuff is great. They've got a lot of cartoon stuff I use and access to a lot of Dover stuff and line art, but there's a lot of Japanese stuff, etc. thrown in.

Still decent price, I agree.

Seanchai

[Stein]

A main issue would be the resolution of the images. You may already know this, but in case you don't here it goes: To make a printed product you'll need graphics with a resolution of at least 300 DPI, while the standard for web graphics is 72 DPI. Ask your printer about the best resolution for the paper-quality etc. they'll use.

To see what size a graphic will be in another resolution, go to Image>image size. In this dialog un-check "resample image", change the resolution to 300 (or whatever you go for) pixels /inch, and you will see the values únder "document size" change.

As an example a 10x10 in. pic will become a pitiful 2.4 x 2.4 in. when doing this. Unfortunately to look good in print that's the way it has to be. Trying to scale low-rez graphics will make your product look like crap. Shrink it or lose it.