Picture Perfect

Greg Carter, studio manager at NuVisions M2C, a photography-based catalog and Web design firm in Santa Ana, Calif., suggests that catalogers negotiate full rights on photos for a specified period of time. He also notes that for production purposes, it's important to decide where the photographs will be used ahead of time. Otherwise, the files could be the wrong resolution, "because the cataloger might want to do ads and billboards, and the resolution may not be high enough," he says.