Cost per thumbnail?

dismaldonkey · 06-10-2005, 05:13 PM

Hi

I am tendering for a graphics contract which includes thumbnailing photographs. The work involves selecting an appropriate area of the photo, cropping it, resizing and optimizing. It doesn't take long per pic, perhaps 2 or 3 minutes each, but the client wants me to quote "per thumbnail" and not for the whole job. Does anyone have any idea what a reasonable rate for this would be? It would involve about 2000 pictures in total.

Cheers

DaveyBoy · 06-10-2005, 05:57 PM

do it for an hourly rate, agreeable before you start. you don't know exactly how long it's going to take per thumbnail so i'd say so that. if they won't go for that, i don't know.

dismaldonkey · 06-10-2005, 06:14 PM

That was my initial suggestion to them. Unfortunately they are insisting on a per thumbnail quote. I may need to try and estimate how many I can get through in a hour, divide that my my normal hourly rate and see where I end up.

sim · 06-10-2005, 07:10 PM

The work involves selecting an appropriate area of the photo, cropping it, resizing and optimizing.

y cant u resize the whole image. if that was the idea. you could do 2,000 images in about less then a minute. =)

DaveyBoy · 06-10-2005, 07:16 PM

because it's a lot better to find a good part of the pic and crop it, so you can actually see what the photo shows without clicking it. i would never make the thumbnail of the whole photo.

if it's per thumbnail, maybe a working of £10 an hour = 10/20(20 thumbs per hour) = £0.50 per thumb.

dismaldonkey · 06-11-2005, 03:28 AM

Quote:

= £0.50 per thumb.

Just the figure I decided would be fair. Actually works out more than I would have probably charged if quoting on the whole 2000 as a job lot.

Think I will go with that and see how it goes.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers

**3ncryptabl3_lick** · 06-25-2005, 09:24 AM

i would do what you said about averaging how many you can do in an hour, except i would then half that, then divide that into your hourly rate.

im wondering though, if you can do some 30 an hour regularly, would 100 be fast? and if so, is it worth being paid less each to do a 100 pictures... or 30 an hour at a higher rate. cause in the end, its still gona be your hourly rate. hmmm.