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Artwork Submissions - FAQ What Type of products can my artwork be licensed for? Depending on the subject matter and styles you paint, products which traditionally use artwork and which we licensed for include:
What is a license? Essentially a license is the right granted to a customer to exclusively reproduce & distribute a certain product using the artwork in a pre-determined region/time period. How long does it take for the artwork to be photographed/scanned? Between a couple of days and a week depending on how large the painting is. Do I lose the copyright? No. You will still hold onto the copyright. We only grant licenses, rather than copyrights to our customers. Can I sell the painting after it has been sent to you? Of Course! Selling the painting has no impact on licenses granted as the new owner of the painting does not automatically get the copyright unless you have sold the copyright. I currently publish my own prints, can I continue to do this? Yes. This is fine as long as you tell us, so there is no risk of us licensing the artworks for prints whilst you are producing/distributing them. Because the licenses which we
offer require an exclusive reproduction license nothing can conflict
with the licenses granted. In what format do you require the artwork? The quality of artwork which we supply to our customers is very important. We can handle: Original artwork - These will be
scanned/photographed and returned Who pays for the photography / Scanning? We pay for all the photography and scanning if you are not supplying them to us. What format do you require digital files to be? 300dpi at 100% of the artwork size or larger. For example if the artwork is A4 in size the image will be approximately 25Mb in size for a Tiff file, and 6Mb for a JPG uncompressed. We prefer tiffs. Can you use 35mm Slides? No. The quality of slides are not good enough for us to scan and supply digital filesto our customers. Can you scan from Prints? No I have taken photographs on my Digital Camera, can these be used? Unless you have a professional studio with a very high resolution digital camera, these can not be used. Our customers demand high quality digital images to reproduce onto their products. Photos taken from camera phones, compact digital cameras or even Prosumer Digital SLR's are not good enough. As a point of reference the digital camera of the which we use costs approximately £10,000. Can you use scans from my flat bed scanner? If the scanner is of sufficient quality to capture all the detail and colour, then yes. As a point of reference our scanner is a Creo IQsmart 2 which cost us £12,000. Quality is very important to us!
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