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06/30/2006 12:59:52 PM · #1 |
I'd really like to shoot some stock to make up enough money to upgrade my equipment, but now shutterstock says I need a 4.0 MP photo whereas my camera is only 3.2.
How can I upsize my photos to 4 while maintaining enough quality to get through the reviewers of the site? |
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07/02/2006 05:38:29 PM · #2 |
| Just use photoshop (or some equivalent) to upsize the photos so that their dimensions equal 4mp. It wont take much and it´ll be unlikely that they´d notice. |
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07/02/2006 06:10:04 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by moniepenny:
I'd really like to shoot some stock to make up enough money to upgrade my equipment, but now shutterstock says I need a 4.0 MP photo whereas my camera is only 3.2.
How can I upsize my photos to 4 while maintaining enough quality to get through the reviewers of the site? |
You can't -- because they also impose a 5% upsizing rule. If you upsize more than that, they can close/suspend your account.
iStock and Fotolia are still accepting 2MP images |
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07/02/2006 06:17:17 PM · #4 |
You will probably be best off doing what is called "stair-" or "step interpolation." If you are not familiar with it, basically it involves upsizing in many smaller steps as opposed to one large step. Usually steps of around ~200 pixels will be sufficient.
If you are using Photoshop CS or CS2, another option may be to upsize in one step using the resizing algorithm known as "bicubic smoother." You can get to it in the image size menu.
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07/04/2006 07:10:29 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by moniepenny:
I'd really like to shoot some stock to make up enough money to upgrade my equipment, but now shutterstock says I need a 4.0 MP photo whereas my camera is only 3.2.
How can I upsize my photos to 4 while maintaining enough quality to get through the reviewers of the site? |
You can't -- because they also impose a 5% upsizing rule. If you upsize more than that, they can close/suspend your account.
iStock and Fotolia are still accepting 2MP images |
But if you only have 3.2mp images then it doesn´t matter much if you get your account suspended or closed unless you really plan to submit images with a better camera later. Just strip all the EXIF data out of your image so that they don´t see the original dimensions or camera model or anything like that. Its cheating but it´d probably work. |
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07/14/2006 03:06:08 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by moniepenny:
I'd really like to shoot some stock to make up enough money to upgrade my equipment, but now shutterstock says I need a 4.0 MP photo whereas my camera is only 3.2.
How can I upsize my photos to 4 while maintaining enough quality to get through the reviewers of the site? |
I just noticed that your original premise is incorrect!
Shutterstock currently required a 2.5 MP image, not 4.0 -- they just use a 4.0 image as an example of a clearly legal image in their FAQ, not as a statement of minimum size.
So, your 3.2 MP is good to go with no upsampling at Shutterstock, Fotolia, iStockPhoto, and LuckyOliver.
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Here's an additional update from Shutterstock of possible interest:
Originally posted by Shutterstock Forum Announcement::
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:09 pm
We are changing our waiting period - from 90 days to 30 days for users who have had their initial 10 photos rejected.
This should be ready by the end of day today.
When we get this set up - users who are in review mode and have their initial batch of 10 rejected will be able to resubmit another batch of 10 after 30 days. An email will be sent reminding you that we're ready to take another 10 photos.
Please note: there is no current limit to the number of re-tries a newbie will get - but we reserve the right to stop accepting 10 image batches on a monthly basis if a user consistently uploads images that don't fit within our guidelines.
thanks! |
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07/28/2006 02:41:09 AM · #7 |
From the Shutterstock Guidelines:
Images must be at least 2.5MP (2.5 Megapixels/2.5 Million Pixels). To calculate the number of pixels in a photo - multiply the width by the height. For example - a photo that's 1700x1300 is 2.21 million pixels. The minimum size for new photographers is now 4.0MP.
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So.. Anyone new to Shutterstock is out of luck without a 4.0MP Camera. Which included me... *sigh*
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07/31/2006 01:33:46 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by moniepenny:
I'd really like to shoot some stock to make up enough money to upgrade my equipment, but now shutterstock says I need a 4.0 MP photo whereas my camera is only 3.2.
How can I upsize my photos to 4 while maintaining enough quality to get through the reviewers of the site? |
I just noticed that your original premise is incorrect!
Shutterstock currently required a 2.5 MP image, not 4.0 -- they just use a 4.0 image as an example of a clearly legal image in their FAQ, not as a statement of minimum size.
So, your 3.2 MP is good to go with no upsampling at Shutterstock, Fotolia, iStockPhoto, and LuckyOliver.
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Here's an additional update from Shutterstock of possible interest:
Originally posted by Shutterstock Forum Announcement::
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:09 pm
We are changing our waiting period - from 90 days to 30 days for users who have had their initial 10 photos rejected.
This should be ready by the end of day today.
When we get this set up - users who are in review mode and have their initial batch of 10 rejected will be able to resubmit another batch of 10 after 30 days. An email will be sent reminding you that we're ready to take another 10 photos.
Please note: there is no current limit to the number of re-tries a newbie will get - but we reserve the right to stop accepting 10 image batches on a monthly basis if a user consistently uploads images that don't fit within our guidelines.
thanks! |
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Hi, just saw this now, are you sure of this? I thought I read that all new photographers had to use 4 megapixels..?
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07/31/2006 01:41:36 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by moniepenny:
Hi, just saw this now, are you sure of this? I thought I read that all new photographers had to use 4 megapixels..? |
Sorry -- you're right. They've stupidly tacked that on as an addendum to their other instructions. |
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