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Rejection due to lack of quality

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 24, 2025
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Hello everyone,

the photo is noise-free, has a deep depth of field, and beautiful colors. What could be the problem?
I submitted a second one in landscape format, which was also rejected.

Thanks for your oppinion.

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daniellei4510

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The building and horizon line are slanted.

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tim_0384Author

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Thanks, I just discovered the Auto-Align feature in Photoshop Elements. I used to use Lightroom, and it was different back then... 🙂

Abambo

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Back then was when?

You can mostly manually fix the level issues in your picture.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Abambo

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You would need to correct the exposure and take down the saturation. The asset is not level and would need a perspective correction. In addition, there are artefacts in the image, very visible if you check the clouds.

You also have chomatic aberration and at least some of the people could require a model release.

I doubt that you will need a property release for the city hall, but eventually a moderator could also give you a final refusal on that ground. Anyhow, this is theoretical, as the quality issues are probably not corrigible here.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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tim_0384Author

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Thanks for the reply. I like slightly oversaturated landscape photos and have submitted them quite successfully to an old account. Perhaps times have changed, though. Unfortunately, I can't find the artifacts in the clouds... The slight misalignment is correct, yes. I only have PS Elements at the moment, where it's not as easy to correct this as in Lightroom.

What also worries me is that when I try to reopen the image in Camera Raw, many fields are colored blue. As soon as I open the image, it returns to normal. Is this related to the color profile, or perhaps because I upscaled by 2 using AI?

Abambo

Community Expert

You shouldn't upscale the pictures... (but I too would by now ignore this, as many generative AI fake images are getting upscaled without limits....)

As for the clouds:

If camera raw as display errors, I would guess this to be an graphics card or driver issue than anything else. The perspective and level can be nicely corrected in Lightroom (Classic) or Camera Raw. In most cases you would not need to open the asset in Photoshop (Elements). But yes, as Photoshop Elements was until recently a for buy option, you may have an older version of that.

(Nb: You upscaled by AI? You probably used a program claiming to upscale with the help of AI, that is different from using generative AI. Just saying)

(Nb 2: I did edit my initial answer after posting, so you may not have gotten all what I wrote.)

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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