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My first digital art piece got flagged by a gallery in Chicago last week
I submitted a piece called 'Urban Echo' to a local digital art call in Chicago, and they said the file format wasn't gallery standard. I'd exported it as a PNG, but they required a 300 DPI TIFF. Has anyone else run into specific format issues with physical gallery submissions for digital work?
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vera_robinson363d ago
Wait, they're still making people use TIFF files? What is this, 2003? I guess they need that huge file size to match the huge egos of some gallery people. You'd think a place in Chicago would be a bit more with it for digital art. My friend had the same thing happen with a PDF last year, they said it wasn't "archival" enough.
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avery2192d ago
Oh man, @vera_robinson36, I get the frustration but TIFFs are actually the standard for a reason (it's a lossless format, so no quality gets tossed out when you save it). Galleries want files that won't degrade over time, which is fair for archiving. A PDF is basically a container that can hold different quality images inside, so it's not a reliable standard for a high-res master file. It's less about being stuck in the past and more about keeping a perfect copy forever, which is pretty important for digital art too.
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