Please look and see and decide if this is a bad quality image in a technical issue!.

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September 23, 2020
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Is there really anything wrong with this image!.

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Correct answer Ricky336

Hello,

It is best to leave in colour - that is according to Adobe Stock - the buyer can easliy convert to B&W but not the other way round!

From a B&W perspective, your image is underexposed, it lacks contrast, so the result is'muddy'. There are no whites or blacks, just a muddy grey.

Looking at the histogram of your image it shows this:

This means it is underexposed.

So, an alternative method instead of levels is to increase exposure in the exposure slider, increase contrast, and decrease the highlights a bit - something like this:

Of course, this is much easier done if you took this in raw, rather than the camera saving to JPEG.

If you don't know about raw, then I would read a lot about it.

So, yes, there are a number of issues with this image.

Abambo

Community Expert

In addition to the very good analysis that you got here, I recommend some reading:

If you are new to stock, you should consider these resources: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/tutorials.html
Please read the contributor user manual for more information on Adobe stock contributions: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/user-guide.html
See here for rejection reasons: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
and especially quality and technical issues: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Ricky336

Correct answer

Community Expert

Hello,

It is best to leave in colour - that is according to Adobe Stock - the buyer can easliy convert to B&W but not the other way round!

From a B&W perspective, your image is underexposed, it lacks contrast, so the result is'muddy'. There are no whites or blacks, just a muddy grey.

Looking at the histogram of your image it shows this:

This means it is underexposed.

So, an alternative method instead of levels is to increase exposure in the exposure slider, increase contrast, and decrease the highlights a bit - something like this:

Of course, this is much easier done if you took this in raw, rather than the camera saving to JPEG.

If you don't know about raw, then I would read a lot about it.

So, yes, there are a number of issues with this image.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I might be wrong but I don't think there's a whole lot of demand for B&W photos on Adobe Stock. Most graphics people know how to convert color to B&W for special use cases. So that's not something I would be personally interested in purchasing.

The composition is murky. I assume this is some sort of rocky beach or coastline but what the actual subject is, I am not really sure because the image is too dark. As you can see from this Photoshop graph, the Input Levels need adjustment to bring them into better balance.