Retna

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format:	JPEG	TIFF
dpi:	300	150	72
size:	100%	75%	50%	25%

format:	JPEG	TIFF
dpi:	300	150	72
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FAQS

Let The Mouse Come To Rest
If you're unsure what a button does, or you want to know more about a thumbnail image you are looking at, let the mouse come to rest and your browser will display helpful hints and image information.

Find The Image You Need
1: Enter words and dates (in the format MM/DD/YYYY) that describe the image you need in the search box that's at the top of most pages. Use an asterisk to search using part of a word: for example 'Schwar*'.
2: Click on the button 'ADVANCED SEARCH' and enter both the words that describe the image you are searching for and words that describe what you don't want to find.
3: Use our 'browse by' section to get images that match a name, date, event or keyword (in the celebrity, music, historic archive) or that match a subject, emotion, location or action (in the stock archive). You can also see what's been recently uploaded to our archives in the 'browse by DATE' pages.
4: When a search has been completed and the results displayed on the search results page, you can use the 'sub-search drop-down boxes' on the right of the page to find images within the search result.
5: Or, contact your account representative with an image request (use their expertise to find the image you need in our online database or in the transparency archive).

Know What's Online and What's Not
Not all of the Retna archive is online. The list of names in the 'browse by NAME' page in the celebrity, historic, music archive is of virtually our entire archive. If you find a name here, and clicking on it gives no results, that subject will be in our transparency archive and you could make an image request. You might also try a 'basic search' on a name if 'browse by NAME' gives no results. 'browse by NAME' searches the archive in a specific way to find exact matches whereas 'basic search' searches more generically and may find images whose data has not been updated yet (for example, if they are new to the archive).

Download One by One or All at Once
Once a web page with the results of a search (basic or advanced) or the results of having browsed certain categories of images has been displayed, you can download individual images by clicking on the 'DOWNLOAD' button above the small (thumbnail) image. Or, you can check/mark them to add them to the shopping cart. You can have up to 100 images in your shopping cart, you can select any one image, several images, or all and then download them together. We recommend downloading a maximum of 50 images from the cart at any one time for speed's sake.

Saving The Images You Find
If you see an image you might need, but are unsure about, add it to the cart (check/mark it). It will stay there forever. It will only leave the cart if you download or remove it. The cart can hold up to 100 images.

Downloading Images
There are two areas in the website that allow you to download images:

Search results page (single images)
Once a web page with the results of a search (basic or advanced) or the results of having browsed certain categories of images has been displayed, you can download individual images by clicking on the 'DOWNLOAD' button above the small (thumbnail) image. You can also download the image after clicking on the thumbnail to see the image's details (and it in a larger format).

Shopping cart page (single or multiple images)
Once a web page with the results of a search (basic or advanced) or the results of having browsed certain categories of images has been displayed, you can add images to your shopping cart by checking/marking the image you want to add to the cart. The image is added to the cart as you leave the page or when you click on 'ADD TO CART', so you can check/mark an image and continue browsing the images in front of you and then return to your shopping cart later, or you can click on 'SHOPPING CART' in the top right of the web page and visit the cart immediately. You can also click on 'SELECT ALL' in the light grey bar at the bottom of a search or browse results page to add all images displayed on that page to your cart. Equally, you can 'DESELECT ALL' the images on that page if you have checked several and you change your mind about them.??Once on the shopping cart web page, you can either 'SELECT ALL' images (in the light grey bar at the bottom of the page) or you can check/mark images individually that you would like to download. We recommend that you download a maximum of 50 images at any one time (the cart holds 100). Then click 'DOWNLOAD' at the bottom of the page to download either single or multiple images. Equally, you can check/mark images and then click on 'REMOVE' to remove them from your cart. If there is just one image you want to download, click on the thumbnail or the image name and then in the image detail page that opens click on 'DOWNLOAD'.

Image Delivery Method
Once you have chosen the images you can click the download button to begin downloading compressed 300 dpi RGB files. Alternatively, chose the "customize this download" button for additional options, including CMYK files and emailing an image.

Download
After completing your additional choices (see below) about the download you will be presented with a web page with a link in the center. There are instructions given at this point about how to click on this link to have the images saved to a folder on your computer.

Email
If you choose email as the image delivery method, the image you have chosen will be emailed to your email address. Because of the limited amount of information that can be sent by email, only one (1) image can be emailed to you at a time. After choosing email, the page will refresh and you can enter the email address you want the image sent to.

Image Format
You can specify the format in which you receive the image(s). If you are unsure what format is best for you, stick with the default settings which are suitable for print.

Image Compression Type
You can also specify whether and how your images are compressed. We recommend you do compress the images you have chosen because they will download more quickly.

Uncompress Utilities
Here are a few links to some applications to uncompress the images that are downloaded: Macintosh: StuffIt Expander Windows: StuffIt Expander or WinZip

Find The Image You Need
You can find the image you need in the Retna archive in one of several ways:

1: Browse
Use our 'browse by' section to get images that match a name, date, event or keyword (in the celebrity, music, historic archive) or that match a subject, emotion, location or action (in the stock archive). In the 'browse by' section of this site, and after you have searched the archive and received a set of results, the 'sub-search' keyword shortcuts that are offered will only find images that have been keyworded by Retna. This means that 'basic search' will always return more images than 'browse by' keyword for the same word. Some of these images will be useful, their data has simply not been updated (as they have been recently added to the archive for example). Some of these will be images you had not intended to find (such as an image of Freddie Mercury of Queen when searching for HRH Queen Elizabeth II).

2: Basic Search
Enter the words and dates that describe the images you need in the search box that's at the top of most pages. You can enter as many words as you want and dates must be in the format MM/DD/YYYY. The results of your search will include any image that has been described using any of those words. You can also use an asterisk (*) in the basic search. Use the asterisk to search using part of a word: for example, searching for 'Schwar*' will return all images that have any word that begins with the letters 'Schwar' including images of Arnold Schwarzenegger and any pictures we have of F.A.O.Schwarz.

3: Advanced Search
Click on the button 'ADVANCED SEARCH' and enter both the words that describe the image you are searching for and words that describe what you don't want to find. By default, all the different types of information ('all fields') stored with each image will be searched for the words you have typed in. If you know which of the fields (see below, For The Technically Minded) the words you are searching for are likely to be stored in, then only search that field. For example: if you are searching for pictures by a certain photographer, choose the field 'photographer' in the drop-down list at the start of the line that you typed the photographer's name in. You can also, by checking/marking the button next to the text describing how the date will be included, search for images from a specific date or from a specific time period.

4: Sub-Search Drop-Down Boxes
When a search has been completed and the results displayed on the search results page, you can use the 'sub-search drop-down boxes' on the right of the page to find images within the search result: in the celebrity/music and historic archive by name, Retna's keywords, date and event and by Retna's keywords alone in the stock archive.

5: Image request
Contact your account representative with an image request (use their expertise to find the image you need in our online database or in the transparency archive).

Search Results Order
The images found during a search are displayed on the search results page ordered by date and then name.

Know What's Online and What's Not
About one quarter of the Retna archive is online. The list of names in the 'browse by NAME' page in the celebrity, historic, music archive is of virtually everyone in our entire archive (online and transparency). If you find a name here, and clicking on it gives no results, that subject will be in our transparency archive and you can make an image request.

[NOTE: A 'basic search' on a name is likely to return more images than the 'browse by name' link for the same name because the 'browse by name' function searches in a specific way. Some of these images will be useful, their data has simply not been updated (as they have been recently added to the archive for example). Some of these will be images you had not intended to find (such as an image of Freddie Mercury of Queen when searching for HRH Queen Elizabeth II after entering 'queen' in the 'basic search').]

For the Technically Minded (The Retna Image Data Fields)
The different types of information (data fields) stored with, or attached to, each image are as follows:

celebrity, music and historic image data fields

name	this field describes the subject of the image. For example: Caine, Michael or Knowles, Beyonce etc.
caption	this field gives general information about the image and often summarises the other fields. This field is likely to contain additional words that describe the image beyond the Retna keywords.
event	the occasion at which the image was taken from list of annual events.
date	the date on which the image was taken.
keyword(s)	the Retna celebrity, historic, music keywords that apply to the image.
photographer	the name of the person who took the image.
credit	the copyright information of the image. NOTE: removal of this information subsequent to downloading an image is a federal offence.
image	name the filename given to the image by our computer system. NOTE: this information is the only way to identify a specific image (it is the 'unique identifier'). So if you want to take note of a specific image for later (rather than adding it to your shopping cart) you can note down this information and use it to find the image again later.

stock image data fields

caption	this field gives general information about the image and often summarises the other fields. This field is likely to contain additional words that describe the image beyond the Retna keywords.
date	the date on which the image was taken.
keyword(s)	the Retna stock keywords that apply to the image.
photographer	the name of the person who took the image.
credit	the copyright information of the image. NOTE: removal of this information subse quent to downloading an image is a federal offence.
image	name the filename given to the image by our computer system. NOTE: this information is the only way to identify a specific image (it is the 'unique identifier'). So if you want to take note of a specific image for later (rather than adding it to your shopping cart) you can note down this information and use it to find the image again later.