Almost everyone'll know how to download images like here for private use.
Mostly (e.g. on a Windows platform) you'll click right on the image to
summon a small menu, in that menu click left on the option labeled "Save
image as..." and finally, after entering the required details in the "Save
Image" window, you click the "Save" button. This'll work for all three types
of our images.

These images are mainly of the (compressed) JPEG format. Now everyone knows
that information is lost when a JPEG is repeatedly saved as a JPEG.
Downloading an image will NOT destroy any information. In fact, then the file is not
decoded and recompressed, but just copied without any change. On the other hand,
it's the browser and the device it's running on that greatly influence the way images
will end up looking; not seldom up to the font chosen for displaying text...
 
Resolution, Colour rendering, Printing
Browsers may fairly spoil the quality of images. Often, the "colour space"
utilised is far to cramped, and a subtly tinted image'll have to be messed
into it, making everything bold and glaring. Everything shows too green,
too red and too blue. The images on this site have been adapted to this
effect, insofar as we have converted them to the most common colour
space (colour profile sRGB). For optimal display on a quality screen or best
result on a quality printer it remains a bit of a muddle.
And above we already mentioned that it's the browser and the device it's
running on that often decide how an image'll turn out.
 
Once the image is downloaded, the "environment" (the program or app)
used for viewing it will make a difference too. All too often it doesn't take
any notice of the colour space we've set. To make matters worse, display
screens generally haven't been calibrated. Whether all this is so very bad
is a matter of taste and experience, but it does mean that in the end we
can't really determine what one gets to see...
 
A colour gradient, how colours gradually merge into each other, is also
tricky. Gradual change always requires many pixels, i.e. high resolution:
many pixels per inch. The images on our website are best viewed, or
maybe printed, with the resolution as given.

The coarse pixel structure of web images can be awkward. The minipictures on this
website are also tiny and coarse, and only the bigger ones can qualify for acceptable
viewing or printing. In our studio we utilise maximal colour spaces and high
resolutions (images measuring 8189x5387 pixels). Lastly, for printing we make use of
a professional printer (up to 2880 dots per inch), professional ink and matching
papers. If you want to impress even more, you can call this giclée.
(So, if for a special purpose anyone'd need more quality than we offer here, they'd
better try and contact us.)

NOTE: the *.gif minipictures (as in the "ladders") are unfit for download:
far too few pixels and a colour space (index ) that doesn't permit gradients
in enlargements. Subsequent enlarging makes no sense.
 
in the section brazenly beautiful pictures:
» images of 550 x 367 pixels that appear on the right hand side when you
click on a minipicture in the "ladder"

» detail images of 550 x 550 pixels that appear on the right hand side
when you click on inzoomdetail below the minipicture in the "ladder"

» larger images of 1100 x 772 pixels that appear in a separate window
when you click on 'here' in the text Click here for a larger version (this text
always appears somewhere in the border around the relevant image)
 
in the section cover designs:
» the 'larger' image with 600 x 110 pixels that apears when you click on a
minipicture in the 'ladder'

» the reduced download-image with 1000 x 652 pixels that appears in a
separate tab or window when you click on 'hier' in the text 'Klik hier voor een
grote downloadversie'

» the full download-version with 1899 x 1238 pixels you'll receive
Downloading audio files (MP3)
Only a few browsers, e.g. Firefox, use the same method as for images,
and just show the option "Save Audio As...". Most browsers, however,
refuse to be that cooperative or just don't handle sound. For the single
MP3 file offered by us, help is shown on the corresponding page.
 
Contact and Inquiries:
Ruurd en Mieke Groot
Lange Weide 6
1631DL Oudendijk
Nederland
 
email: images@iwacc.com
tel: +31(0)229542722