BoBman

Thanks, BoBman

Hi, no video clip Alamy, thats a shame. I searched for a search box but couldnt find one BoBman

Hi, I ran a test many years ago where I established that Q6 pshop was the point at which an immediate visible difference was not apparent for general run of the mill image saving for other folk at work, and myself, and for important work I adopted q10 through to q12, so q10 is not discernible from q12 and abetter file size. noted, thanks. BoBman

Hi, It would seem a logical follow on to also treat video clips in the same way as photos. I dont see mention of this type of 'stock' . Has Alamy plans for this or if not where can I place video clips that I have to be sold in the same manner as photos ? BoBman

Hi, There is no Alamy 'manual' as such that I can see where one can search on a term and find an answer, I have looked at the contributors page but no mention of how to see data on interests in the photos I have. Where do I go to see a record of hits on my images to get an idea of what is proving interesting etc and to see what search terms were used for such ? Cheers BoBman

I was going to take this off on an angle to the question of does a buyer know that the jpg is max quality, does Alamy check on the fact that its saved as such, but no doubt thats in the manual or declared somewhere that the buyer can have faith. BoBman.

Politely RTM ! I posted this having seen threads on the subject with Alamy mentioned, so assumed it was a worthy debate. they also need to RTM ! BoBman.

That solves that one then ! BoBman

Hi, Not sure what RTFM stands for. BoBman.

Hi, What is best practice for file type submission ? JPG I save as max quality but if a potential buyer sees jpg, might they think its suffering compression artefacts ? Can they see its saved as best or is it assumed ? If they see tiff they will assume its pure and pedigree., no quibbles there. If they see RAW they know they have control and can tweak and hone it. Also supplying raw files saves a massive amount of time on fine tuning, rotating, tweaking etc , though submitting images that need a bit of work doing isn't really acceptable and could count against you. Alternatively if one has edited out a traffic cone or minor feature spoiling otherwise a great photo, and no doubt there are some of use who have found ourselves photographing a village on bin day , 😏 raw file means the buyer has that to do, if they care. So is it best to supply raw and be done with the time hogging tweaking leaving that to the buyer ? BoBMan