Recommended Photo file sizes

• Minimum of 100k
• Please be guided by your connection speed. If you have a broadband connection, please upload the largest file sizes you can to ensure the highest quality output for your pictures.

How to reduce your file size

1. Using Windows XP

• Save all your pics in one folder, i.e. ABC book.
• Select all the photos you want to resize
• Select the 'Email this file' task from the explorer task list

• You will be prompted to 'make my pictures smaller'
• Select 'show more options'
• Choose 'Large'
• Windws XP will then create an email with all the resized photos attached into e-mail - simply select the attached photos and save back to a folder.

2. Using Picasa (www.picasa.com)

3. Using iPhoto (for MAC Users)

What format should a digital image be sent as?

• We accept .jpg format

How to take good pictures for your MKB books

Here are some tips to make sure you get the best quality pictures for your ABC books and flip cards

• For Each letter of the Alphabet, make a list of the people, pets or objects that you would like in your child’s book. Now it is time to take the photos or collect the ones you already have on disk.
• It is not necessary for each photo to be a head and shoulders close up. As long as you can see clearly who the person, pet or object is.
• The ABC book and flip cards templates will allow for both portrait or landscape style photos, so either is fine.
• Make sure the background of each shot is clear and uncluttered; you want the focus of each picture to be the person, pet or object.
• Take your photos to correspond to each letter of the alphabet and save them in a folder entitled ABC Book or flip cards, or choose from photos you already have.
• Now is the time to edit them, for light, red eye reduction etc. If you crop them, try to ensure they are still approx. 100k in size or you will lose resolution and the quality when printed in your book will be poor. If you are not happy with the look of the photo, we recommend taking another shot.

I don’t have photos for each letter of the alphabet, what will happen on these pages?

If you don’t have a picture for any letter of the alphabet, You may choose pictures from the mKb Image Library. There is no charge to use these pictures.

Or you may try these ideas for some of the harder letters.

• Q – Your child’s quilt; your child with a quokka at the zoo. Your child with a picture of the queen.
• V – A pic of Mummy or Daddy with the Vacuum.
• X – Your child playing with a xylophone. Your child with a toy x-ray kit.
• W – Your child wearing water boots/Wellingtons.