Recommend Dimensions for "Client"

This is a little odd, but then so am I…

I am a fine art photog and am winding up a series of portraits of homeless people here in Knoxville. (Yes, they volunteered (eagerly), got paid, signed releases, and understood I will probably hang them in local shows.) I shot these outdoors under a bridge near where many congregate. Needless to say, I didn’t just go out and set up my tripod and wait, not because of any real danger but because of mistrust — I’d still be waiting without some kind of validation in their eyes. So I worked through one of several agencies which serve the homeless here, and they paired me up with a

who has lived on the street for 17 years and is known and respected among his peers. (They do have a social fabric, though I imagine the rules differ from ours by a bit…)

Though I own the photographs and want generally to protect my ownership,

this unusual case I feel a need to make images available to the local homeless agencies to use in any way they see fit. I will trust them not

damage my interests and accept whatever risk that entails. I will ask for credit, of course, and a copyright line. I plan to provide the images on CD in sizes suitable for Web viewing and general print purposes. My questions have to do with my best choice of size and format.
For online viewing, what is the smallest JPG that won’t pixellate before full-screen? 600 pixels on the long side? Should I provide thumbnails,

let them deal with that? If so, what dimensions?

For printing, what is the smallest size that will yield a good image quality in brochure size (say, 6 in. maximum?) without giving away my best print capability? (My operating format is TIF and file sizes are about 60 megs.) Will a JPG do, or should I provide a TIF?

Or should I just offer the print size only and let them make the smaller images?

It may be of some significance that these agencies are filled with folks who spend all day thinking about social problems and don’t, as a rule,

knowledge of, or access to, the cool graphics programs we enjoy. If they use these CDs at all, they will likely take them to a third party — maybe a small print shop — and ask for a fund raising brochure, etc.
I look forward to your advice on this.

Thanks.

David
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David Habercom
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN

This is a little odd, but then so am I…

I am a fine art photog and am winding up a series of portraits of homeless people here in Knoxville. (Yes, they volunteered (eagerly), got paid, signed releases, and understood I will probably hang them in local shows.) I shot these outdoors under a bridge near where many congregate. Needless to say, I didn’t just go out and set up my tripod and wait, not because of any real danger but because of mistrust — I’d still be waiting without some kind of validation in their eyes. So I worked through one of several agencies which serve the homeless here, and they paired me up with a

who has lived on the street for 17 years and is known and respected among his peers. (They do have a social fabric, though I imagine the rules differ from ours by a bit…)

Though I own the photographs and want generally to protect my ownership,

this unusual case I feel a need to make images available to the local homeless agencies to use in any way they see fit. I will trust them not

damage my interests and accept whatever risk that entails. I will ask for credit, of course, and a copyright line. I plan to provide the images on CD in sizes suitable for Web viewing and general print purposes. My questions have to do with my best choice of size and format.
For online viewing, what is the smallest JPG that won’t pixellate before full-screen? 600 pixels on the long side? Should I provide thumbnails,

let them deal with that? If so, what dimensions?

For printing, what is the smallest size that will yield a good image quality in brochure size (say, 6 in. maximum?) without giving away my best print capability? (My operating format is TIF and file sizes are about 60 megs.) Will a JPG do, or should I provide a TIF?

Or should I just offer the print size only and let them make the smaller images?

It may be of some significance that these agencies are filled with folks who spend all day thinking about social problems and don’t, as a rule,

knowledge of, or access to, the cool graphics programs we enjoy. If they use these CDs at all, they will likely take them to a third party — maybe a small print shop — and ask for a fund raising brochure, etc.
I look forward to your advice on this.

Thanks.

David
—
David Habercom
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN