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vinnie77
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 12:13 pm
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I recently tried submitting photos to Shutterstock and they all failed to upload due to my images not meeting the 4.0 megapixel requirement.
However, my camera is 4.0 megapixel and I took the images at the largest size. They were about 1.87 mb or something close.
So my question now is, how do I know if my images are 4.0 mgpx? The dimensions? Size?
I know they were taken at the largest setting and my camera is 4.0 yet they did not upload on Shutterstock.
Any clarification about this would be appreciated.
Vinnie.
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hhltdave5
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 24081
Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 12:29 pm
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| vinnie77 wrote: | I recently tried submitting photos to Shutterstock and they all failed to upload due to my images not meeting the 4.0 megapixel requirement.
However, my camera is 4.0 megapixel and I took the images at the largest size. They were about 1.87 mb or something close.
So my question now is, how do I know if my images are 4.0 mgpx? The dimensions? Size?
I know they were taken at the largest setting and my camera is 4.0 yet they did not upload on Shutterstock.
Any clarification about this would be appreciated.
Vinnie.
www.vinniesworld.com |
Your mp size is simply the length X the height of your image in pixels.
To be honest I doubt if your camera is giving you exactly 4mp images. Often the actual output is a touch under that size. Plus if you do any cropping of the image even at its biggest you will be going under the 4mp minimum.
If you are serious about stock I would upgrade to a better camera more in line of a 10mp range. |
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semmickphoto
Joined: 12 Feb 2012
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Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place
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Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 2:02 pm
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If you are 5% off you may upsize, but thats the max SS will allow. So if your photos are 3.81mp or higher you can upsize to 4mp |
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pharm
Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: Never quite sure
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 10:44 am
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I wonder if the answers helped any. |
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semmickphoto
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Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 5:21 pm
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| pharm wrote: | | I wonder if the answers helped any. |
Dave answered the question, the rest is added bonus. :) |
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pharm
Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: Never quite sure
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 11:52 pm
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| semmickphoto wrote: | | pharm wrote: | | I wonder if the answers helped any. |
Dave answered the question, the rest is added bonus. :) |
lol - what I meant was that since the OP never bothered to return and comment on the answers given we don't know if they ever read them at all. 5 days and no "thank you" or any other response from vinnie77. |
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vinnie77
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:13 am
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Thanks everyone for sharing your feedback and insights. I'm just getting back here now, sorry for the delay to reply! I'm going to try to upsize my photo the 5% now and hope it will still be alright to submit.
Cheers,
Vinnie. |
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royster
Joined: 19 Apr 2009
Posts: 279
Location: England/Greece
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:51 pm
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| vinnie77 wrote: | Thanks everyone for sharing your feedback and insights. I'm just getting back here now, sorry for the delay to reply! I'm going to try to upsize my photo the 5% now and hope it will still be alright to submit.
Cheers,
Vinnie. |
You got in there Vinnie just in the nick of time.
It does make the blood boil a bit when a question is asked and others go out of their way to make the time to answer and then there is no reply from the original poster |
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semmickphoto
Joined: 12 Feb 2012
Posts: 6486
Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place
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Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 4:53 pm
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| vinnie77 wrote: | Thanks everyone for sharing your feedback and insights. I'm just getting back here now, sorry for the delay to reply! I'm going to try to upsize my photo the 5% now and hope it will still be alright to submit.
Cheers,
Vinnie. |
Cheers, let us know how you get on.
Late reply, but at least a reply ;-) This is a very active forum and the members are very passionate, experienced and committed. As someone here once said, these people are helping new members become their own competition, in their spare time, for free ! How crazy and unique is that?!
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peteklinger
Joined: 01 Aug 2007
Posts: 1027
Location: Great Place By a Great Lake
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:55 am
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| vinnie77 wrote: | Thanks everyone for sharing your feedback and insights. I'm just getting back here now, sorry for the delay to reply! I'm going to try to upsize my photo the 5% now and hope it will still be alright to submit.
Cheers,
Vinnie. |
Easiest way to have done this would be identify your specific camera so people have an idea what it is? That data is useful.
Finding your file size is fairly easy. Open in any photo editor and if it doesn't have the dimensions listed, click on RESIZE image, (you don't change anything just look) #### times #### and you have it in pixels.
Open in irfanview, (free software) click "I" it will show the number of pixels. Same as above multiple #### x #### and you see a number.
What you are going to need to start with is roughly 2400 x 1800 which will equal 4,320,000 pixels or... 4 Megapixels or four million pixels.
Hope that makes it easier to understand.
It's probably better to have a 5MP camera to start with to have to edit and crop allowance. Also as someone else pointed out, some camera say 4 Megapixels and are right on the edge, and are really 3.95MP so they won't ever pass. |
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darla
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:40 am
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I have occasionally wanted to upload an image that was just a hair too small. Instead of interpolating up, I usually add onto one or more edges.
Look your image over, and decide which edge(s) would be best to expand for a good composition.
Add a border of the needed width to that side.
then, clone, paint, fill, or otherwise color it to match the background.
I did that with these. I have gotten a "bigger" camera since, and haven't had to do it in a while, but it worked well when I needed it.
(oogh. I was looking at my earliest submissions to find these, and now I want to delete a lot of things) |
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semmickphoto
Joined: 12 Feb 2012
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Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:44 am
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| darla wrote: |
(oogh. I was looking at my earliest submissions to find these, and now I want to delete a lot of things) |
Oooh, dont delete photos, you never know what might sell out of the blue. The general idea is, if its accepted, leave it. Mike Price has a good thought on the matter and I quote "I dont delete accepted photos as I find that a deleted photo never sells."
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