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December 6, 2018
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Thank you for info on the last photo. I looked at this one again before I posted it, but if I'm missing something please let me know. Thanks!!

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Correct answer Ricky336

Hello,

It seems that you are using a smartphone for this picture - according to your metadata. So, with such phones artifacts are going to be a problem - especially when you increase them in size. Below was enlarged 111%. I guess you took this in JPEG format right? So, this is already a compressed file. Therefore, when enlarged you are going to get signs of artifacts like this:

See how 'blocky' the leaves are. This is due to the JPEG compression.

In all honesty, generally speaking, it is better to have a camera with a bigger sensor and one that can take raw, rather than JPEG -

especially if you are considering uploading to Adobe Stock (and other stock sites).

Ricky336

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Hello,

It seems that you are using a smartphone for this picture - according to your metadata. So, with such phones artifacts are going to be a problem - especially when you increase them in size. Below was enlarged 111%. I guess you took this in JPEG format right? So, this is already a compressed file. Therefore, when enlarged you are going to get signs of artifacts like this:

See how 'blocky' the leaves are. This is due to the JPEG compression.

In all honesty, generally speaking, it is better to have a camera with a bigger sensor and one that can take raw, rather than JPEG -

especially if you are considering uploading to Adobe Stock (and other stock sites).

Abambo

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To be clear: Phone pictures are accepted by Adobe. But to avoid refusals, all elements need to be optimal, including and specially lightning. Your phone should also have one of the better camera systems. Newer phones are here way better than older ones. I wouldn’t use my iPhone 6 for pictures for stock, because I feel that the required quality level of that camera is not given. I take pictures of my dog with it, and I love them, but they are not usable for stock.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

kconklingAuthor

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Raw is a general name for the native camera file. It is 'unprocessed'. Canon is .cr2 as mentioned in my above post. Nikon .nef and so on.

So, for Canon it is IMG_xxxx.cr2 (Camera raw version 2.)

(You can convert it to IMG_xxxx.dng if you use Adobe's DNG format.) I usually import into Lightroom as .cr2

As I said DNG is Digital Negative - DNG - a digital version of a negative!

In Lightroom the file is seen as RGB - colour - unless you change to B&W - grey scale.

I've been reading up on lightroom classic cc and my camera on the web. Right now I have it on raw. I've taken pixs...it will only let me import pixs to dng. I don't see a camera raw version 2. Is that from my camera? I have the raw & jpg or just raw on my camera to choose from. I would like to keep them raw if possible with the cr2 format. I haven't found anything in lightroom about cr2 format. Am I looking in the right area? Thanks

joanH

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Hi konkling, I think you can take out that small pink flower and clean up the area on Photoshop. The rest of the photo looks clear. If you pick the color of your background and erase carefully - it will leave only background color behind. Make sure it set to background for match color. Leave no traces. Best regards, JH

Abambo

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There are several artefacts in the leaves. This one stroke my eye, before even looking deeper at the image:

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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