Adrian Says Hello. . .
Adrian 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.

• 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.

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