Exporting Images

[Raymond Litschgy]

I have tried to export images to a stock agency who requires the images to be in a Jpeg formate, 24MB in size, using the RGB 1998 color space. So I take my images from Lightroom 3, into Photoshop CS5, using OnOne Genuine Fractals I select 25MB and apply this setting. My image is then saved on my desktop where I can right click to get info, to confirm that it is indeed 25MB. So far so good, but now using the upload page supplied by the stock agency I select the image from my desktop upload and it shows the upload in size in the email as being in kb not MB. Is there first a way that I can confirm that this image does meet the agencies requirements, prior to sending the image, and how do I know this file will actually open on their end as a 25MB image. This agency only allows you to meet their quality control three times, if you fail to meet their quality control standards you are blocked from submitting. Does anyone have an idea how I can export with confidence. The agency is Alamy if this helps and my software is Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS5, OnOne Genuine Fractals for sizing my image. I use Lightroom again to export from using Alamy's upload screen, where I drag & drop the image. Is there a better way to work?
Thank you for your help in advance.
Ray

[Digidave]

24 MB is huge for a jpg file & I don't think any e-mail will allow a file that size. I took a look at the site you are using(Alamy) & here are the requirements.

We need:

* JPEG’s saved at a high quality setting (i.e. Photoshop level 10 or above).
* Alpha-numeric file names ending in .jpg.
* RGB files, not single channel greyscale or CMYK.
* Uncompressed file sizes of more than 24MB. This means you should make your JPEG file from an 8 bit TIFF file that is at least 24MB. If you have a camera that is capable of producing an uncompressed 8 bit file of over 24MB then leave it that size.

I've never dealt with any of these agencies so I'm not sure of what they're asking for here. On one hand they want an Uncompressed file of more than 24MB but they then say that it has to be a jpg file? That doesn't make sense to me because jpg's are a compressed file & I've never seen one 24MB in size. Maybe someone else can chime in here with a bit more experience.

[jdepould]

They just want a high quality source file.

Export psd or tiff to photoshop, then save as jpeg, quality 12.

1 MB = 1024 KB, basically just move the decimal over one spot to the right.