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01/23/2010 10:39:24 PM · #1 |
| I know it sounds like a slightly "newbish" question but do a lot of the stock agencies allow photoshop editing or anything else done to the picture? Obviously whoever wants to download the photo could be put to work fixing it up, but I didn't know if the agencies frown upon it. TIA. |
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01/23/2010 10:48:54 PM · #2 |
| It's not photojournalism -- you can pretty much edit as necessary, as long as you do it well enough that the editing isn't apparent. Most sites do not want you to apply sharpening, as the customer will do that based on their final use and size. |
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01/24/2010 04:57:08 PM · #3 |
Yeah, they all allow it.
iStock however likes mostly lightly edited images - they feel the designer should have the most options available, so the less editing the better.
The other sites like more editing and highly edited images often sell very well.
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01/24/2010 05:26:52 PM · #4 |
May not be a bad idea to check the individual stock sites FAQ, just to be sure. I remember reading a few years ago that Alamy preferred that no sharpening be done on images. I don't know if this criteria for Alamy holds true, have to check for myself!
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01/24/2010 06:31:11 PM · #5 |
It is often necessary to clone out brand names (for example) which might lead an otherwise suitable image to be rejected for copyright issues.
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01/24/2010 11:57:36 PM · #6 |
| Thanks!! I appreciate knowing which ones tend to not prefer it as well. I was thinking that - a lot of items you take pictures of might be hard to escape having brand names or other things that would cause the picture to be rejected so photo-shopping made sense. Also because I have an AWESOME picture but someone's fingers got in the way on the corner of the picture. :) |
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01/25/2010 01:26:41 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by leaf:
Yeah, they all allow it.
iStock however likes mostly lightly edited images - they feel the designer should have the most options available, so the less editing the better.
The other sites like more editing and highly edited images often sell very well. |
Any experience with Alamy and the sale of "highly" edited images? They don't cull based on subject matter so I see a wide variety of images--some rather pedestrian(not unlike mine, haha). |
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01/25/2010 10:26:16 PM · #8 |
| I guess I should ask - what about cropping if there is something slightly off on a corner of the image? I wondered since I've been researching and some say never to resize the image so I didn't know if that applied as well. |
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01/25/2010 10:28:04 PM · #9 |
| I imagine cropping is allowed, so long as the image meets the dimensional requirements. So you may have to upsize a little. |
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01/26/2010 12:32:45 AM · #10 |
Cropping is fine, at least with Alamy. What  snaffles said... |
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