-> If someone wanted to buy a digital picture for some sort of promotion or
-> related material what should I want to know before agreeing?
-> 
-> Karen

How much money will they make by using your picture as opposed to how much
money will they make if they don't use your picture?  How unique is your
picture compared to all the other picture possibilities available to the
people who want to use your picture?  Do you have a picture of the Queen in
a Canadian outhouse doing her business?  That would be very valuable to one
of the supermarket tabloids. If it is a pretty picture and a calendar
company wants to use your picture on their calendar, then if you want to
see your name on a calander as the photographer of a pretty picture, take
whatever their standard remuneration is. Though your picture may be pretty
there are no shortages of pretty pictures. Price depends on what it is a
picture of, and how unique that picture is.  You are saying selling your
picture, so I assume you are actually selling all rights to that picture,
not just renting it for one use and you retain the rights to sell it again
at a later date.

Digital should have no bearing on the price, as anything that would be used
in an area where a high price would be justified will be digitized by the
buyer anyway.  If the picture is to be used in a digital environment, then
use Photoshop and put your name on it.  If there is a substantial sum of
money involved, then buy a digimark from the company listed in the
Photoshop filter that places marks and reads them.  
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