DerekVallintine Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The last time I uploaded was in August 2014 and the minimum size was 24.8mb or thereabouts. Has this been lowered to 17mb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 The last time I uploaded was in August 2014 and the minimum size was 24.8mb or thereabouts. Has this been lowered to 17mb? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekVallintine Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Thanks for replying John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Thanks for replying John. No problem. There's also an updated version of Alamy SizeCheck that reflects the new 17MB min file size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpole Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Just down loaded this and I didn't realise i was using SRGB rather than Adobe RGB 1998 . What effect would that have on sales ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 None. I've always used sRGB too. There's a slight difference in colour rendering which is of historical interest to printers but it's largely irrelevant now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShon Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I've just joined and am trying to upload my four test images but it keeps saying they are too big! The minimum is 17mb, my files are between 18-25mb... any ideas where I'm going wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpole Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 You sending jpegs or trying to send tiffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 It's 17MB uncompressed- do you mean 25MB compressed? If so it's evidently too big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShon Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Sending jpegs... not compressed though, do I have to send them compressed?? As zip files?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armstrong Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Are shooting in RAW or JPG? If it's RAW, edit then save out as TIFF. If the TIFF is 24MB then go ahead and save as a level 12 JPG. If you are shooting straight from JPG there is an Alamy Size Checker utility which you can Google for. You can also use this if you want to cut out the TIFF stage above and save straight from RAW to JPG. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Sending jpegs... not compressed though, do I have to send them compressed?? As zip files?? Your saved jpg file is compressed - has nothing to do with zip files. If you cannot see the uncompressed file size in your image editing programme and don't want to do any calculations - this is the programme Michael is talking about: http://www.braeside.plus.com/photography/alamy/alamy.html Niels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armstrong Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Just out of interest what are you shooting on? The biggest uncompressed file size Alamy accept is 200 mb (http://www.alamy.com/contributor/help/image-submission-checklist.asp). A D810 approximately makes a 120mb TIFF file as a comparison. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MircoV Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 To keep it simple....... just make sure that your photos are at least 6 megapixels. Then you are in. Mirco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RShon Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Ah! I see. Thanks so much for your help everyone... I'm getting there. Although I'm still getting 'Profile Warning' so must be in the wrong colour profile... I see a lot of faffing to be done with all the images I want to upload. Fingers crossed the return is worth it Shoot with a Canon EOS 500D Michael, normally shopot straight into jpeg due to laziness in post-processing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Don't worry too much about colour profile. Alamy recommend aRGB but my cameras have always produced sRGB and I have never changed it. The return may not be worth it unless you can streamline your processing. Shooting jpeg helps with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Armstrong Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Ah! I see. Thanks so much for your help everyone... I'm getting there. Although I'm still getting 'Profile Warning' so must be in the wrong colour profile... I see a lot of faffing to be done with all the images I want to upload. Fingers crossed the return is worth it Shoot with a Canon EOS 500D Michael, normally shopot straight into jpeg due to laziness in post-processing! The 500D is 15 megapixel so you shouldn't have any problems with the native files size (max or min) straight out of camera. Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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