Question:  Digital Images  Can I send you digital images attached to an e-mail message for placement on my FCA web page?

Answer:   Yes I will accept your digital images.

If you are scanning your own photos to send to me please adhere to the following guidelines;

• At the time of scanning set your scanner to scan at 72 dpi (Dots per inch) as this is all that most computer monitors can display and this will also help keep the file size small to improve the loading speed of your web page over the Internet.

• Adjust the colour of the scanned image so it has the proper brightness, contract, hue and saturation of colour and the colours truly represent those on the original art piece.

• Save the file as a .jpg or .jpeg file with the longest side of the image set at 400 pixels and the compression level for the image set at 25%

• When I place thumbnail images on you web page from images that meet the above criteria it will ensure your web page, with up to four images, will load over the Internet in approximately 10 seconds or less on a 56 k modem. 

• Note: Each time a .jpg or .jpeg file is saved the image gets compressed and loses some sharpness.  Once an image is compressed even twice it will often start to show a loss of clarity.  If you follow the above standards, then I will not have to change your digital images and resave them so the quality of your images will be retained at a high level.

Question:  The colour or brightness is wrong in one of the pictures on my website.  What can I do ?

Answer:  Please let me as soon as possible so I can correct this problem.  It is much easier to correct while I still have your photos in my possession.

Question:  I noticed that none of the artist's pictures have price information with their pictures. Is there a reason for that? If we want to sell from the site, then that information should be on the pages!!

Answer:  There are actually some artists on our website who have put prices on their pictures.  Whether an artists has pricing on their pictures is purely a matter of choice for the artist.  I am quite willing to add prices to the artists' pictures if they are supplied.  I checked the National FCA site and it appears about 30% to 40% of the artists have listed their prices.

Question:  I went to see the "Artists By Name" pages and the link to an artist's personal website works, but the back button is not active so I can't get back to the FCA site without retyping it in. Is there anyway to put up something on her page that says "Back to the FCA home page"?

Answer:  When you click on the artist's picture on the "Artists By Name" pages that takes you to an artist's personal website I have programmed the links so the artist's personal website opens in a new window in your browser. This allows you to thoroughly visit the artist's personal website in the new window of your browser and then close it when you are finished. When you close this new window, by clicking on the X in the top right hand corner of the browser window, you will find you are back in the FCA website where you left off to go to the artist's personal website. This is the normal way most websites are programmed. If I did not program it this way we would be at risk of losing viewers who click on hyperlinks to go to artists personal websites. This way we keep them coming back to the FCA website. When you go to an artist's personal website from the FCA link look down near the bottom of your browser window and you should see two icons that look identical each one is a different window in your browser. Click them both and you will find one of them takes you back to the FCA website.

Question:  Why do photos on some artist's web pages not enlarge very much.

Answer:  Regarding the enlargement of photos on the website there are many artists who do not want to allow any significant enlargements in the event someone is tempted to copy their work.  All photos are reduced to a resolution of 72 dots per inch which is all that most computer monitors can display using a web browser. It also means that if someone tries to copy and then enlarge the photo it will quickly turn into many little squares known as pixelization.  

Some of the photos on the website were passed on from the previous website at their current size and I cannot make them larger without a noticeable loss of clarity.

Normally when you click on a small picture of an artists work the image enlarges to 350 or 400 pixels long on the longest side of the image.  That is the standard I am using throughout the website for picture enlargements and making efficient use of the existing web space.