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  October 2004

Tip of the Month – Save Time! Send Files with FTP (scroll down)

Adrian Says Hello. . .
Adrian's PhotoAdrian Velazquez comes to Giant Photo Service with over 20 years in the photographic industry. Adrian started his photographic adventures in grade school when his mother gave him an instamatic camera to take on school field trips. After college in the San Francisco Bay Area, he managed a custom photo lab in San Ramon California for 6 years. In 1990 he moved to SanDiego where for the past 13 years he was the manager of The Photo Factory.Adrian is a certified master craftsman printer, Adobe certified in digital imaging and is actively involved not only in San Diego but also internationally on several photographic advisory panels. We are very excited to have Adrian as part of our team.


Restore and share old family photos! Makes great gifts for the holidays!

Preserve your family’s history and memories for other generations. Our experienced staff, using state-of-the art equipment and software, can help you.Giant Photo Service offers a full range of restoration and retouching. Our services range from simple corrective spotting of prints to extensive restoration of very faded or damaged images; including Daguerreotypes, Tintypes, and tinted convex ovals When you bring a photo to us for restoration we will advise you of what can realistically be done for you and work within your budget.

We know that every image IS different and some photos need just a little amount of retouching while others may need elaborate work and digital enhancement. Our goal is to give you back a photo that looks, as close to the original as it did the day it was picked up from the photographer years ago.Including restored photos in heritage scrapbooks or historical memory books for your children and grand children becomes effortless.



BASIC DIGITAL PHOTO RESTORATION PACKAGE - Only $39.95!
Includes:
  • Scanning your un-framed original (up to 8”x10” in size)
  • 1 Color or B&W 8”x10” Photo Enlargement.
  • 10 minutes of digital restoration time. If additional restoration is desired, we can give you a maximum estimate when you place your order. (Additional restoration work is $90.00 per hour.)
  • Also includes a CD containing the retouched version of your photo.

Tip of the Month

Save Time! Send Files Electronically with FTP

Problem:
You need to bring over a CD with the images that you must have in a couple of days, BUT you have to be in meetings all afternoon long. And worse, the freeways are jammed… what are you going to do?

Solution:
Solution: Send us your files electronically! There are two ways you can do it.

Here's how to do it:

Option1

You can send us your file by . This works great for files that are 10Mb or less in size, and is very easy to do. E-mail us with your attached file to . Don’t forget to give us your name, a phone number and instructions for printing. If your have more than one file, please send each in a separate e-mail.

Option 2
FTP your files your files to us! "What's FTP?" File Transfer Protocol is a fancy way of saying "send your files directly from your computer to our computer through the internet".

Here’s how to do it:

If you have FTP software on your computer and are familiar with it, here are the numbers. This option works great with files over 10MB or numerous files.

Host Name or Address: 68.105.245.212
User name: giant
Password: (Please call us at (619) 232-1371 and we will give you a password and additional information)

If you don't have an FTP program, there are several “freeware” FTP programs on the web, as well as shareware and commercial products. These are sites we found. We are not affiliated in any way with them, but give them a try:

 PC
  www.snapfiles.com/shareware/network/swftp.html - List of FTP programs
  sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla - Filezilla FTP
  www.pclightning.com/sndtoftp.html - SendTo FTP

 MAC
  www.pure-mac.com/ftp.html - List of FTP programs
  www.fetchsoftworks.com - Fetch FTP

Go to www.giantphoto.com/ftp.html, follow the directions and off you go….

Keep Clicking!
Sincerely,

Your friends at Giant Photo,
- Alfred, Adrian, Sue and Crew


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800-99-GIANT (800-994-4268) · (619) 232-1371
3617 India Street
San Diego, CA 92103-4740
www.giantphoto.com
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