Alamy Stock QC

Shutterman

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I am in the process of sorting images that I feel might do well on a stock site.

I am about to start the rework process for these images and I was going to use an action or droplet. No issues there I am quite happy with doing that.

However I would like to know what processing people who upload to Alamy carry out on there images and what method they use within PS to upsize the images to meet the Alamy requirements.

I am shooting with a D200 which gives me an uncompressed JPG size of around 25meg.

Have any members had major issues passing the QC process if so what where the issues and how were they resolved.

Many thanks

Nigel
 
 
I have failed the process twice, reason was size, all were as far as I am concerned correct but I have now failed twice.

I can't see where I am going wrong, having followed the various tutorials so a mate is going to go through the images with me in the New Year !
 
Many thanks for the comments and links.

Processed first set of four, sailed through now just got to upload more.

Cheers

Nigel
 
Hi Nigel
If you haven’t done it already, my advice would be to check out Alamy’s submission requirements. This link will take you to the ‘Prepare image’ page:

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography-guide.asp

Also check out:

http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2008/12/10/3826.aspx

For a good overview have a look through the whole of ‘Selling images?’
And for comments from other Alamy contributors have a look at the forum:

http://www.alamy.com/forums/

Although there is plenty of excellent advice on the Talk Photography, I have found that some unsuccessful would-be Alamy contributors can give confusing and unnecessarily negative comments, which can be misleading and discouraging. Alamy QC is not ‘rocket science’ and there are plenty of Alamy photographer (including myself) more than willing to help out.

Good luck and keep us posted.
Sam-D
 
Kerioak said:
Do you mean they have been reviewed and accepted already? My last lot have only just been accepted after waiting since last week sometime .
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Yep already approved and I have just tagged them.

I sent an email to the submissions department asking if they could forward additional information relating to errors in processing if they failed and they went straight through.

Cheers

Nigel
 
Hi, I know it can be frustrating about having refusals but 99.9% of the time Alamy are correct about QC.

One of the most important things in stock is exposure. You have to get this correct or as soon as you play with levels/curves/shadows etc, once you try and upsize it will generally show interpolations.

Try and over expose by a 1/3 of a stop and I bet you will have more sucess in QC.
 
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