The first thing I did was to ask her if she still had her original photos from her wedding photographer. She did and I instructed her to send them to me using a non destructive method. There are many ways to send photos or large files, I usually recommend Dropbox or Wetransfer. I went ahead and did a batch photo retouch for her. The extra time I took to resolve the image size when sending photos from a mobile phone really paid off.
Thank you for making my wedding photos beautiful! – Jeanine
I have had to cancel many wedding photo edits. Because the client has asked for the retouched photos to be prepared for a printed album. You will not believe how distressed they have been. When they realise they will never have good quality print sized photos of their wedding.
Let me show you why are cell phone photos so small
To highlight the difference between cell phone photos and the original, have a look at the example below:
Iphone and android devices can reduce photos
The white rectangle is the low resolution image size of the cell phone photo she first sent. The larger black rectangle is the size of the full resolution photo that the photographer sent to her. There is no way I could have edited a wedding photo for printing if I only had the Iphone photos to fix. The difference in the photo sizes are 75 Kilobytes for the small cell phone photo, to the original 16.5 Megabytes.
Icloud and Google Photos
Icloud and Google Photos do not compress your photos, they are also really great applications for storing original images. When you get your original photos sent to you, save them straight to one of these apps. That way you will always have a copy of the full resolution photos.
If you ever need to send the photos for printing or for editing, you can then either download them to you laptop or desktop in full resolution to send. There is also a way to get the uncompressed photos onto your phone or tablet.
Here is how to do it if you have an Android device:
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Photos app
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- Sign in to your Google Account.
- At the top, tap Menu
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- Select Settings
Back up sync.
- Under “Settings,” tap Backup mode.
- Select High quality or Original quality.
- Tap Select.
To do it using an Iphone:
- Connect your iPhone to Wi-Fi.
- Open “Settings”
- Scroll down.
- Toggle on “iCloud Photo Library”
- Make sure that the option “Download and Keep Originals” is checked.
- Wait until all your photos and videos have been downloaded.
