In the process of trying to set a price list, all the details of processing must be accounted for in order to get accurate perspective of the time commitment.  Once the amount of time to process photos is determined, one step in calculating the cost of creating images is also understood.

Initial timings for 102 (1.22GB) images:

• Copying from media card to server 8 minutes
• Tagged with basic information in 4 minutes

There are more steps to finding out the actual cost of an image, and this is the beginning…