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I have recently had a few images rejected from a stock photo house for having artifacts. Their exact words were:
"Unfortunately this image contains undue artifacts when viewed at full size. Artifacts are most commonly caused by over-compression but may be a result of other factors. Be sure your camera is at its highest quality setting and remember to also save your JPEGs at the highest possible quality (level 12)."
The images I submitted were shot in RAW, opened in Photoshop CS2, very slightly adjusted, and then saved as JPG (the only format they will accept) at the highest quality settings. When I view the saved JPG at 100% in Photoshop I don’t find these artifacts they mention, but there must be something going on since three images were rejected for this same reason.
Interestingly, images that were accepted were shot as JPG and submitted without passing through Photoshop first. I am always careful not to open a JPG and then resave it as JPG for fear of over-compressing, but the images that were rejected started as RAW and only compressed to JPG one time.
Does anyone have a suggestion that might explain what is happening?? Any other factors I should be looking out for that might cause the artifacts they noticed??
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
"Unfortunately this image contains undue artifacts when viewed at full size. Artifacts are most commonly caused by over-compression but may be a result of other factors. Be sure your camera is at its highest quality setting and remember to also save your JPEGs at the highest possible quality (level 12)."
The images I submitted were shot in RAW, opened in Photoshop CS2, very slightly adjusted, and then saved as JPG (the only format they will accept) at the highest quality settings. When I view the saved JPG at 100% in Photoshop I don’t find these artifacts they mention, but there must be something going on since three images were rejected for this same reason.
Interestingly, images that were accepted were shot as JPG and submitted without passing through Photoshop first. I am always careful not to open a JPG and then resave it as JPG for fear of over-compressing, but the images that were rejected started as RAW and only compressed to JPG one time.
Does anyone have a suggestion that might explain what is happening?? Any other factors I should be looking out for that might cause the artifacts they noticed??
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Jim
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