To create the highest quality edition possible, your original artwork has to be transferred to a digital file. While we can work from supplied transparencies and digital files, we have found that allowing us to make the transparency or digital image direct from your original art will nearly always provide superior results as we have perfected an in-house system of image quality control. The digital file format we use gives us the versatility to manipulate an image prior to hardcopy production. Lines, textures, colours and contrast can be altered, enriched or eliminated. All files will be archived for future prints.

I want to supply Digital Paintbrush with a digital file,
not my original art
Right, several factors to take into account here. Resolution affects the maximum size of reproduction. A personal digital camera costing under £500 is likely to reproduce up to A4, pay £1500 and you may be able to go up to A3. Image manipulation programs such as PhotoShop and PaintShop Pro are able to resize files, but please resist the temptation to do so. It really doesn't help at all - it is the pixels that come out of the camera that matter. Again, please get a professional to do the work if you can. Remember the grey card inclusion!

Of course, you may already have a scan from a tranny or a digital file from a previous job or you work in digital media. In this case a good rule of thumb for maximum print size is 200 - 300 ppi (pixels per inch) at final size. We accept files in most formats - TIFF, PSD, EPS, PDF are fine. They can be CMYK but RGB is preferred, they must carry a colour profile or sRGB will be assumed, they can be 8, 12 or 16 bit per channel. Please use the PDF form on the ordering page. An inkjet print is invaluable to us - you can mark this up with cropping / colour balance / caption information etc. and is another check for us to be sure that what we see our end is what you saw on your computer.