Roger

About the software, it looks interesting. I’ll link it.

Cheers,

Humberto

Good point. Unfortunately, one can’t create actions in PSE (but you can use those made in full PS). You also can’t set a default method of changing image size.

Adobe need to justify the price differential somehow.

Incidentally, I’ve found a handy size-checker tool, here — http://www.braeside.plus.com/photography/alamy/alamy.html . It works in Windows or Mac O/S.

Cheers,

Roger

If you want to do it by pixels, you can use the image processor in PS, but you have to remember going into the Preferences and set the Bicubic Smoother option as default method for upsizing.

Cheers,

Nugar

Further reading has unearthed this handy tip, which is to set the long side of an image to 5100-5200 pixels. That gives the requisite size, providing there’s been no extreme cropping.

Regards,

Roger

Cheers,

Humberto

Yes, thinking about it, there’s a huge confusion about this topic. Alamy asks for 48MB in their site.

In any case, the technique still applies for the interpolation and no it wasn’t a typo. If you want the value of the pixel dimensions to be exactly 48M (well, yes M and not MB) you can play with the percentage in the Width and Height boxes.

Cheers,

Humberto (Nugar)

However, I’m still confused about the size units Alamy is using. In its main statement of requirements, it says it wants “Uncompressed file sizes of more than 48MB…”*.

Your tutorial is based on their wanting files of at least 48 million *pixels* in size, not bytes. These are, as you know, different things.

(Even then, at one point you say: “If you want it to be *exactly* 48MB as Alamy asks, you can play with the percentage value.”. Perhaps it was a typo.)

I don’t want to risk having files rejected because they’re the wrong size, so what’s the answer?

Regards,

Roger

*See http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography-guide.asp .

1. You can use it, but I don’t think the results will look good.
2. There’s a tutorial on this at Alamy’s site: http://www.alamy.com/contributors/stock-photography-submit.asp
3. Working with RAW is a HUGE topic. The beauty of it is that you can tweak a lot of variables and the file can always be returned to it’s original state. I don’t create a jpeg because each time you save a jpeg, you’re losing detail, so I work either as TIFF or PSD. I keep a copy of the PSD as Masterfile and at the last possible moment, convert to jpeg to upload to Alamy or to any other agency.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Nugar

1. Can I use this upsizing method on any size of pic, eg: will it look shabby if there is too big a hike in the upsize ? Say from a 1688 x 2376 (1.52 mb. )
2. You mentioned something about Batch uploading ? Have you created a tutorial on this to help ?
3. Off the topic slightly, are you able to explain your workflow when working with RAW files, eg: do you leave the original alone and just creat a jpeg to work from etc ?

Once again, thanks for a great tutorial.