EarthShot images are offered as a compressed download, suitable for Windows in Winzip EXE self-extracting format or Macintosh in Stuffit HQX self-extracting format. The bitmap format images can be opened by applications that can open, import or place JPEG format files, typically Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint, Quark Xpress, PowerPoint and many more. The ancilliary files are in Illustrator Vector v.7 format.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:
The EarthShots images are standard Photoshop output JPEG high quality 300 dpi image files, saved at quality 10. Supplied with the bitmap image, two corresponding PhotoShop Path files are offered to allow exte4nsive modification or enhancement of the image.
One contains text layers such as river names, major cities and town names, country names, physical features in the seas and oceans, and island names. The other Path file contains outlines of each map, with each country placed on a separate layer for easy location and editing, and a layer with all borders; also included are coastlines, rivers, major towns and cities, graticules (lines of latitude and longitude), and scales.
The corresponding map in Adobe Illustrator EPS format provide fully-editable outlines of each map, with each country placed on a separate layer for easy location and editing, and a layer with all borders; additional layers include coastlines, rivers, major towns and cities, graticules (lines of latitude and longitude), and scales. The Illustrator files also include a layer onto which the corresponding EarthShot relief map images can be placed.
FILE SIZES:
The images are high resolution 300 dpi, 24-bit RGB color, and are typically sized at 2,569 x 1,726 pixels in horizontal and vertical axis giving file sizes of approximately 12.7 Mbytes in RGB or 17 Mbytes if converted to CMYK. Image resolution is optimized to support high quality imagesetter output at full-page size.
LICENSING:
Reproduction rights granted with your purchase of the EarthShot image allow internal use and,
with free registration, almost unlimited commercial use. Restrictions on use of
the EarthShots require that the images should not form part of
another clip art collection or be made available to third parties in their original form. Full copy of the EarthShots License Agreement.
