Picture web research and simple editing (60 pictures)

Hi, The project is the following: Research, capture/download, format and deliver pictures, from the web, depicting specific tourism related sites in a European contry. Sites/places can be public monuments, places of interest, hotels, restaurants, churches, beaches...so on. Most places should have usable pictures readily available in the web, others may require a bit more digging and search skills. Sizing: - 3 reasonable quality pictures (enough for web publisinh) per site (see guidelines below) - initial pack of 20 sites Total for this project: 60 pictures In this project you will deliver initially the pictures for 5 sites (15 pictures total) to assess quality and so that I can provide you feedback. If the quality is not good enough, I may cancel the project, although I WILL ALWAYS PAY your work. In this case I always pay the inital 25% of your bid. After that, you will deliver in packs of 5 sites (4 packs in total, 15 pictures each) as soon as you have them, so that I can check it. I have personal knowledge of most sites that I'm sending you, so if I detect "wrong pictures" (pictures are not related with the site) I will not pay for them. So you must be good with your research. If, for some reason, you are unable to find pictures regarding one site/place let me know and I will replace that site with another one. I need a lot more pictures than this, but I've never "outsourced" this task and I want to see how it goes: quality, price and accuracy (not providing pictures from wrong sites). So, if your price is right (low...) and work is good, you can count on a lot more coming your way. If you think you can do this, fast, with quality and for a good price..go ahead and bid! looking forward for your proposals (PLEASE SEE PICTURE GUIDELINES AFTER SIGNATURE) cheers, miguel PICTURE GUIDELINES TO BE FOLLOWED STRICTLY 1) The picture shoould be of reasonable quality. 1.2) Don't use poor quality originals 1.3) Never do enlargement of originals (originals should always be bigger than the size I'm targeting) 1.4) Don't perform successive resizing operations or format transformations (always work from the original) 1.5) Don't change the proportion ratio of the original, because it will distort the picture. 2) Suitable license: No royalties. Doesn't require payment or specific authorization: e.g. public domain, CC with attribution, etc.. Or if it's from a commercial place and comes from their own site(e.g. hotel, restaurant, since they usually don't mind good publicity.). Or still from owners that although not specifically authorizing re-use, hint that they wouldn't mind it, since we are talking about public places and never includes persons. 2.1) Never use pictures that are specifically copyrighted/protected and/or where the author specifically requires payments or other form of compensation (besides attribution or recognition). Examples: Commercial sections ofpicture sites. 3) Each photo NEEDS TO INCLUDE author name and site/url where it came from, so that I can include attribution and I will check that the photos are suitable to use. 4) Photo should provide a good perspective of the place/site and/or of it's special features 5) Picture should be visually pleasant. No ugly perspectives, dirty places or completely crowded places (unless its a place where crowd is ok like a bar/club for example). If you have any doubts ask me! 6) Picture Size: 425x280 (picture can be bigger if it keeps proportion ratio) 7) Format: .jpeg 8) Minimum resolution: 72dpi 9) picture file size: in the range 40KB-60Kb 10) Editing tool: You can use any tool that allows quality picture resizing, cropping and jpeg output. I like to use GIMP, but as long as quality is good you can choose whatever you like.. Together with your bid let me know if you have already done something like this and quote "PICTURES" in the beggining of the message so that I know you've read this far...