free file uploading/storage service?

Does anyone know of a good free site where I can upload a file and then send the link to someone? I know about one but I can't remember what it's called. It has to allow big files. Sizes of like 40MB. Know of any places?

I know www.putfile.com and www.youtube.com are good places!

Hope it'll help ^^

putfile.com was more like what i was looking for. just a simple upload thing but putfile's limit for image files is 2MB so that wont work at all.

The purpose of this is LadyAnime is having trouble getting me her high res images for the store because her email has a 10MB limit. So we need a way for her to get the image to me.

I guess I'll just have to set up an FTP thing on my own server instead.

I tried to set up an upload thing, but it doesn't seem to work with big files for some reason. I don't know how to change that.

My dad sends me huge files through Yahoo Messenger, but I don't know the limit on how big that is. You could try it though.

I just ran a search on it and this one sounds promising http://www.savefile.com/  it says you can upload 60mb's and get a link so that others can download your stuff and it claims to be free but I didn't try it to get to the fine print.

Why are her files 40 MB?!  Did she have them at 600 dpi or something? It is a TIFF format?

You shouldn't have to wrestle with such a large file Susie.  Just a suggestion...but perhaps a little tutorial is in order on creating print ready images in reference to submitting to The Store.  Even cafe press suggests a dpi no greater than 300.  And I don't think we're printing huge banners/posters and such.  My life sized Vegeta poster - which I made myself, mind you.  Was (hi-res) 20 MB...and it's 6 and a half feet tall! 

 

Thanks for the link MoonDemon. I'll have her try sending the file through AIM first. Why didn't I think of that? That's a great idea. If that doesn't work for whatever reason, i'll have her try that website.

Sliverbane:
Her file isn't 40MB but it's more than 10MB. We have to have her file at a high resolution of about 600dpi for printing, Sliverbane. I just used 40 as a rough number as some of my files are about that big.

There IS a tutorial available. It's been there for weeks. There is a link to it from the store submission page.

Yeah 200 dpi is ok if we are only going to put the artwork on products that are the same size as the artwork. For example, if the artwork is drawn on 8.5 by 11 paper and we only scan it at 200 dpi, then the largest product we can put it on is 8.5 by 11. But most people will want to have their stuff available on the mini-poster print which is 11 x 17; twice as big as 8.5 x 11. So, you'll have to scan it at 200 dpi x 2 = 400 dpi. To be safe, I asked her to scan it at 600 dpi, so that we can put it on even bigger products when needed. It's better to go bigger as I can always resize down later.

Sheesh. Sorry I'm really frustrated that I keep having to explain this.

All I'm really trying to say is that is seems unessessary to go through all this trouble.  That's just my perspective on it. 

How is it unnecessary? just wondering

I think Silverbane is just saying it seems like a lot of work for you Susie, when we all know that you have a shister load already. I could be wrong there.

Personally I think its great that you want Kristy's work to look as good as it can at the store you're just out to make me spend all my money

Thank you MoonDemon.  That's IS what I was trying to get at...

I figured it would get real old to be running around *figuratively of course* for every submission that is too big.  I can only imagine if and when the site gets bigger.  Are you gonna do this for everyone?  Some further guidlines on creating/scanning and submitting art that is print ready may be nessessary.  I spent three years learning about how to create images for print.  It starts at your thumbnail, naturally.. Will this look better on a business card or a highway billboard. I looked at what cafe press had to offer in the way of merchendise and I don't understand why 600 dpi is nessessary.  Maybe you could explain more about what you're dealing with.  The image(s) in question, that is. 

On Dec 20, 2005 2:02 pm, Sliverbane said:

Ok well ideally, everyone is supposed to prepare their images for themselves but not everyone has programs like Photoshop to adjust their images. Because the store is just getting started and there isn't a lot of products available yet, I'm doing the template work for those that dont have the software or knolwedge to do it. Once the site gets bigger, I'll probably still do it for a few people that are friends or whatever, but not for everyone.

None of us are creating artwork specifically for one products. we just create a piece of artwork and put it on a bunch of products. if you'd like to go to that sort of level with your work, that's great. you'll probably sell more. But most of us don't know about that and are just going to just try and do the best as we can.

Let me explain it with an example. Let's say I have a drawing and the size of that drawing if I measure it with a ruler is roughly 5x8 inches. What if I wanted to put that drawing on an 11 by 17 poster? If I only scanned the artwork at 200 dpi and placed it in the 200 dpi 11 x 17 poster template, the image would be really small on the template and would not fill up the entire space of the template. It would only fill up roughly a fourth of the page.

In order to have my 5x8 inch drawing fill up the 11x17 space, I would need to do some math. how many pixels are in 11 inches at 200 dpi? (11inches * 200dpi = 2200 pixels). So the width of my scanned drawing will have to be at least 2200 pixels.

So divide 2200 pixels by 5 inches and you get 440 pixels. So that means you'll have to scan your artwork AT LEAST at 440 DPI to cover the entire width of the 11x17 poster. I round up to 500 just in case and to make it even.

Now all I do is take my 500 dpi drawing, drag it into my 11x17 200 dpi template, and VIOLA! it fills up the space. EVEN THOUGH the drawing is 5x8 inches, it will take up MORE THAN 5x8, infact it will take up 12.5by20 inches because the drawing is now 2500 pixels wide by 4000 pixels high.

I say to people if you don't want to do the math, just scan your artwork at 600 dpi, and then we don't have to worry about math. If the artwork is too big, I can always just do Free Transform in Photoshop to adjust it to the size of the template without doing any math. I can always scale the artwork down quickly without a problem. What I CAN'T do is scale it UP because then there will be quality loss.

Hope that explains everything.

Ah! I see now.  That's just it!!  I wouldn't make an image that is 5X8 then suddenly want a 11 x 12 poster of it. (I know better and in my opinion so should the artists who submit to The Store). Some images can handle the size change...others can't. If the artwork is completed already:  Picking the right images for the right product is important. If the artist is looking to make something for printing on various products: Creating the right images that work is also important. I'm talking about composition and media as well! I personally am not gonna throw a bunch of  art at you that's made for a poster size print and ask you to put it on a coffee cup.  It's kinda silly.  I realize not everyone has Photoshop, or a  hi-res scanner, etc - perhaps in the future that may mean; unless the artist have the means to create/scan images that pint with in the perametes that Cafe Press offers they are out of luck. One last question - Is the quality of the print affected by the increase in pixels?

You're a generous and forgiving person Susie.  I just wouldn't have the patience to modify every image that didn't quite fit.