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I have a photo question. Thinking of having a website with customers able to "upload" or email a pic. I will be sublimating onto hard substrates. Are pics that are uploaded better than being emailed as far as the resolution or does every pic lose quality when being transferred from one medium to another? I'll have to have good resolution for hard substrates compared to tshirts. I was just wondering how much work will have to be done in Photoshop to correct resolution. I'm sure most pics will come from phones. Just learning about dpi, ppi, etc...gets very confusing and I don't want to waste ink on practicing too much. Thank you for any feedback.
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I don't deal any more with user pics. They used to send me rubbish images that had been screenshot on a mobile, or cropped to within an inch of their life, and I was spending waaaay too much valuable time cleaning them up in Photoshop, plus the constant emailing back and forth to make sure it was what they wanted.

Nowadays, I do my own designs, to which they can add a litttle personalisation if required (text only) and have a much happier and more profitable life!
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Uploading or emailing will not make a difference. Uploading comes in handy if it is s large file that an email server my reject due to size. Your real challenge with dye sub is color correcting to your profile. I would post in the dye sub forum on suggestions on color correcting to get professional results.
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Thank you for the reply! I see where you're coming from. I will be sublimating and I know they say "garbage going in - garbage going out", so that will definitely make my life less happy.
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Uploading or emailing will not make a difference. Uploading comes in handy if it is s large file that an email server my reject due to size. Your real challenge with dye sub is color correcting to your profile. I would post in the dye sub forum on suggestions on color correcting to get professional results.
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I see what you mean about file size and I will want the best photo I can get so I would think they would be large files. Thanks for the feedback.
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