High resolution download formats

Pixaria Gallery allows you to offer high resolution images for sale or for free download to your visitors and clients.

From version 1.5.3, the system by which images are organised within the library folder on your website will change and it is strongly recommended that the new organisation system is used in preference to the old one to ensure compatibility with Pixaria 2.0 when it is released.

High resolution images in Pixaria 1.5.3 and above

Version 2.0 of Pixaria will see changes how high resolution images are stored to allow for better control of how images are sold to customers at different resolutions. Part of this change will involve an alteration to the organisational structure of the library storage folders. To make this transition simpler, these changes will be introduced in version 1.5.3.

At the present time, high-res PSD, TIFF and JPEG 2000 images have to be stored in folders called original_PSD, original_TIF and original_JP2 which are located alongside the thumbnail, comping and original JPEG images in your library image folders. From version 2.0, these images will have to be stored all together with full size JPEG images in the 'original' folder currently only used for high-res JPEG images.

As with the current version of Pixaria, high-resolution images of any kind are completely optional and you can include whatever types or combinations of files you want or even none at all.

To ease the transition to the new organisational structure, version 1.5.3 will make it possible to store images in either the new OR old locations but you will need to completely migrate to the new way of storing high-res files in order to offer file downloads with Pixaria 2.0 when it is released.

High Resolution Images in earlier versions

To offer high-resolution file downloads in JPEG 2000, Photoshop or TIFF formats, you need to supply versions of your images in the same base directory as the original file but with a different file extension:

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Created: Monday, November 6, 2006
Last edited: Monday, July 2, 2007