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How do you test photos for stock suitability?
Aleksey:
Hello everybody! My question is for both reviewers and submitters and i mean not а plot of the picture or а scope of it's use. And also i don't speak about common sense and naked eye tests, when you see a technically unsuitable photo and reject/recycle it. There are such things like holes instead of white cloud, or other things unknown to me because of my very small experience, which annihilate market quality of a picture. What tools do you use to find such bugs? May be it is 'Eyedropper tool' and Info window in PS, may be playing with brightness and contrast? Оr some other soft?
Syates:
Aleksey, do you mean what criteria in general decide if an image gets accepted? Images get at 100% reviewed so they have to be good at this size, sometimes you have an image that looks great at blogsize or med web size, but if you look at it at full size, you find all sorts of things (noise or color fringing for example) that makes it not suitable for stock. Some sites are more strict in their quality guide lines and others more relaxed. Does that help? SY
Aleksey:
Sybille Yates, no i don't mean declarative rules of almost all (micro)stocks.
I mean how do you find such mistakes like dirty not contrast black colors, or white color without any percent in cmyk if it is not an isolated image (i know such things a very bad for printing in journals for example). Or may be it is not a point of reviewing?
Syates:
All sites I submit to, ask us for rgb color space, I don't think any micro site will test them in cmyk color space also. Obviously our monitors are calibrated and we, I assume most of us, have the possibility to download images into Photoshop. But checking them for quality in different color spaces might be perhaps little bit offer the top. SY
Aleksey:
It is not a rare case when photos are declined, but the reason is not fully covered by the standard phrase of reviewer...
on the other hand you are reviewing a very big amount of photos every day..
How many time do you spend on an average photo?
What is average route of your eyes on a monitor?
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