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Brennan5FB7
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December 3, 2020
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Photo Rejections for Technical Issues.

  • December 3, 2020
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I'm new to Adobe Stock, but have been using stock images for a year or two now. I finally was able to purchase a DSLR worthy of Stock images, and I will always try and get some stock-type shots whenever I'm out shooting. Not much material recently, but I was able to grab a few that I thought could do okay on Adobe Stock. They've all gotten rejected for technical issues, so I was hoping to get some insight. It'd be nice if they gave a little more description pertaining to the technical issue.

I would have just inserted them into the text box for easier viewing, but the files were too big. Sorry.

The attached images aren't all of my submissions that have been denied, just the ones that I thought for sure would be accepted. I know that the last image, of the mountains + river has a little bit of artifacting when you zoom-in a lot on it, but I thought its not easy to tell until really zoomed in. 

 

For reference, the first two photos were taken with a Nikon D7000, (16.2mp sensor), and the kit Nikkor 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6. I'm aware the glass quality isn't great, but I thought it adequate enough for stock photos. 

The last photo was taken on a compact/bridge camera, althogh I have printed that image out poster size and it looks fine. 

Sorry for the long post, just wanted to get some constructive criticism to get my photos on stock. Thanks!

 

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Ricky336
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Ricky336Community Expert
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December 3, 2020

Hello,

You do get artifacts when enlarged. For the mountains and river,  you are also getting noise - which isn't good for stock.

It looks 'grainy'.

It's the same issue with the other pics.

For stock as well, better to take the pics in raw format, use photo editing software such as Lightroom - you need to do some post-processing -  and then save to JPEG. You can control the output quality, whereas with the camera in-processing, you don't have any control.

Have a read of this. It's a brief guide on image quality:
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html

and this:
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/how-to/tips-stock-image-acceptance.html?set=stock--fundamentals--adobe-stock-contributor

 

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Brennan5FB7Author
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December 3, 2020

Thank you for the prompt response! I was aware of the artifacting in the one photo, but I wasn't sure how much of an issue that would be. Regarding post-processing, I typically edit everything that I want to use for something, and very rarely use the camera's JPEGS. The photo with the music stand was in fact edited in lightroom, and so was the shot of the walkway.  I uploaded the walkway photo previously without any editing, and it was not accepted, so I uploaded again with an edited veresion to balance out the shadows of the bridge and highlights in the background.

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Brennan5FB7Author
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December 3, 2020

The compact/bridge camera does not allow for RAW shooting, so I don't have very much control over them unfortunately. I also studied the guides pretty extensively prior to uploading, and was a little bit dissapointed.

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Brennan5FB7Author
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December 3, 2020

I also wanted to note, when uploading JPEGS that were processed by my DSLR I get a quality alert. It initially asks me, this image may be too low quality, submit anyway? I chose yes, as I haven't found any quality issues, and a 16.2mp sensor is plenty high resolution, although I'm aware an 18, 20, 24, or 48 mp sensor would be preferable. However, weirdly enough, when uploading photos from my 12mp compact/bridge camera, there was no quality notice, and you can actually tell a visual quality difference when looking at photos from both side-by-side. Any guidance on this would be appreciated as well. (Lightroom exports (editing RAW .NEF files from my DSLR) to JPEG Large does not get the quality alert.)

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