If you're a web designer putting together a netalog (online catalog) of small parts, you may have learned the bad news. Thousand-dollar digital cameras don't do closeup work well, and they don't handle the glare common to small parts. You could spend the big bucks to take care of it in-house, but how often will you be seeing small parts? Then there's cobbling together stages, back drops, part holders, and gaining the specialized experience -don't you have your hands full building websites? Sometimes the client says he'll do it - how do you spell d-e-l-a-y ?

Photo studios* want over $100/part, typically because they produce high-quality images suitable for brochures. But you have a box of 100 parts and need only the quality suitable for a computer screen. Photo studios have to fit you in, set things up, show you proofs, learn what works on the web, and then turn your job around in weeks. Then you have to digitize all the pictures and adjust the background. Would you prefer it all done on internet time instead?

How about $10/part and a 24-hour turn around?

* Here's the asterisk on many photo studio contracts. They retain ownership of your pictures. Want to use your picture on another website or brochure? Be sure to find out what the studio's cut will be - it can be thousands of dollars. Check our terms and conditions about how we let you keep what is yours.

Our approach is this simple:

• Fill in the online order form.
• Ship your parts to Smallpart.com.
• Within 24 hours of arrival, you will receive email directing you to an online proof set of thumbnails.
• If you approve, you can immediately download your detailed pictures.
• We ship back your parts with a CD containing the detailed pictures.
  

You get to tell us how you want the picture taken of each part. You choose the background and pedestal from our library.