Here is why images from IAYA are different from most other providers
Although IAYA can produce images in traditional mediums like paint and sculpture most all images produced by IAYA are produced digitally.
Most Digital Images are made up of tiny little squares called pixels – these are called raster images. The images from your digital cameras are this kind of images.
You can see this if you zoom in on a digital image or if you look at a printed digital image with a magnifier of some kind. Each little pixel has its own specific color and brightness.Lot and lots of these pixels mixed together form your digital image.
The more pixels an image has, the better the picture looks and the better the image looks when printed.If the resolution is not high enough – images will look grainy.
These are good examples of the products, although the images are not very exciting. The samples show how the vector images are very simplified.
OTHER ALTERNATIVES AR VECTOR IMAGES
Vector graphics are a mathematical image made up of 'numbers".. Lines, shapes and colors that make up an image are done as a mathematical formula. A vector graphics program uses the mathematical formula to construct the screen image by making an image from the mathematical data. The mathematical formula figures out where dots that make up the image should be placed for the best results when displaying image.
The advantage for this type of image is that it can be scaled to any size.Printing from this kind of image can be very sharp. Especially if it is compared to images printed in an average raster resolution.
Disadvantages, to IAYA standards, are that image scalability and file size is being traded for image quality.
What IAYA provides to clients in addition to artwork
Your artwork will be produced in very high resolution. Usually 300 dpi, but if IAYA knows that the artwork will be used for very large images – car wraps, billboards, signage of any kind – then we will produce the image large and in higher resolution – up to 600 dpi.
When the job is done, the client will be provided with a compact disc with the images on it.
Working Files:The images will include much larger working files in a “PSD” (and Adobe Photoshop image). You will not be able to open these on your computer unless you have Adobe Photoshop on your computer - that is okay though.Because if you have to take these files to another graphic artist, the graphic artist will have the correct program on their computer.The .PSD files are files that can be edited and used or modified.
Production Files:These are files in the sized and formatted for the job you contracted IAYA to do. For instance, for print (like business cards), the file will be in CMYK, and .PDF the size will be at 300 to 480 dpi. The image will be “flat” and not in a format that can be edited. (If you need changes – a graphic artist will have to go back to the ‘working files’ mentioned above).
Palette:This is something that is easy for your graphic artist to provide at the time the work is done. I compare this to an interior designer’s story board.It is crucial to get if you are doing primary work like logos and other identity branding products like webpage headers, banners, etc. But it is good to get anyway.
These palettes will usually include colors (in hexadecimal numbers for use on a webpage) and images. Ask about getting this at the time the work is produced.If you ask for it while the work is being produced there should be little or no cost for you. It will cost about an hour of time if you ask for it after the work if done.
