Alamy Measures 2.0 launched

RacePhoto · #1 (**permalink**) 08-21-2008, 01:29 AM

Interesting with the search results for the entire site, also here's a video.

Alamy stock photography - Blog

My views for July/Aug almost equaled Jan/July, which means new uploads are attracting more views. No sales yet, but I have two months of photos to edit, identify and keyword. I'm shooting something different this weekend, promotions for the owners. Not working racing or shooting racing. (but I will be at a race track.)

thesupe87 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 05:20 PM

I've got about 200 images on Alamy, and have to still try and find the time to upsize and upload the rest (1800+) ugggh there's just not enough time in the day. I have one sale with them so far, and would love it if I could make at least one or two a month.

This new measures is a lot more in-depth. Thanks for sharing this, Pete. I like it.

sharpshot · #3 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 10:13 PM

I am only uploading photos that aren't on the micros. 140 on there so far and 2 sales. Another 5,000 uploads and I wont have to rely on my microstock earnings

Batman2000 · #4 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by thesupe87

I've got about 200 images on Alamy, and have to still try and find the time to upsize and upload the rest (1800+) ugggh there's just not enough time in the day. I have one sale with them so far, and would love it if I could make at least one or two a month.

This new measures is a lot more in-depth. Thanks for sharing this, Pete. I like it.

Who dont you use a Photoshop action to batch upsize your pics... It?s not that hard to do... The keywording is another story, but at least using "Image Size" and making an action can take out the hard work of upsizing. I used to use Genuine Fractals, it took forever... Now I use Bicubic Smooth in CS3 without a single QC fail yet.

thesupe87 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-23-2008, 11:37 PM

Good suggestion, Batman.

I haven't had a hard time upsizing my 5mp and 8mp images from Photoshop - that's been fine, quality wise. The thing is, some of my images are 5, some are 8 megapixel, some are cropped, some of my weird illustrations are odd sizes. Sometimes I downsize images to 4mp if they are a bit soft, or if I am really trying to hide some tough noise. It would be kind of tough making an action for all of the different sizes...unless there's some other way that I don't know about.

Maybe there's a way you can set it so that Photoshop knows to upsize an image's pixel dimensions greater than 48M but less than 48.5M or something.

orchidpoet · #6 (**permalink**) 08-24-2008, 01:19 AM

The requirement is only 48.0, not 48.5.

RacePhoto · #7 (**permalink**) 08-24-2008, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by orchidpoet

The requirement is only 48.0, not 48.5.

Assuming that your photo is "normal" digital photo dimensions, make the longest side 5025 and it's 48.2 megapixels. Easy. You could probably use Irfanview and batch resize/rename files and not have them get ruined.

Since I do uploads of 10-12 photos or less, I don't use that method. I also make sure I do levels on each image before I resize, so I'm already in Elements. But if you have finished photos, upsizing isn't magic. Irfanview resamples the images, for better quality.

builttospill · #8 (**permalink**) 08-25-2008, 11:18 PM

I once read, I think it was in this forum, directions to use PS's droplet feature to upsize a batch without even opening PS. I can't remember where it is, but a little searching and you should be able to find it.

Once I get a little more time I'd like to increase my small portfolio on Alamy, and using a scripted droplet, and dragging all the photos I want to upload to Alamy on the file in Windows seems like the easiest way to do it. Just write the script to increase the longest side 5025 pixels like RacePhoto suggested, then you can drag your 1800+ photos in the folder, come back in a few hours and they'll be ready.

RacePhoto · #9 (**permalink**) 08-26-2008, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by builttospill

I once read, I think it was in this forum, directions to use PS's droplet feature to upsize a batch without even opening PS. I can't remember where it is, but a little searching and you should be able to find it.

Once I get a little more time I'd like to increase my small portfolio on Alamy, and using a scripted droplet, and dragging all the photos I want to upload to Alamy on the file in Windows seems like the easiest way to do it. Just write the script to increase the longest side 5025 pixels like RacePhoto suggested, then you can drag your 1800+ photos in the folder, come back in a few hours and they'll be ready.

If you can explain this, I will try both Photoshop and Irfanview and see if there's any difference in the quality of the results. I can never kick a free utility that does this all in Batch mode, but if there is a difference, I'd take the one that's best.

Droplet? Scripts? I'm clueless.

Reminder, maybe for myself, but Alamy doesn't read any of my IPTC data.

thesupe87 · #10 (**permalink**) 08-26-2008, 09:39 PM

Yeah, it's funny you said that. I don't think it reads the exif data for images I've keyworded in Irfanview either. Images I've keyworded in Photoshop or Cushy Stock are fine.

Setting the longest side to 5025 would work for images sized properly, but how would it differentiate between verticals and horizontals? A lot of my graphics are squares. Most of them already are over 48M. Also, shots from my point and shoot become over 50M if I set the longest side to 5025. It's all over the place. I think what I need to try and do from now on, is just resize each day's batch as I complete them.