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i do it in a single step in photosohp -

edit > image size >

then make sure you use Bicubic Smoother

Make that three for three 

Thanks for the advise 

Make it four... never had a rejection from the default PS resize, going from 8MP to 16MP.

Now life is much easier with my 21MP camera

My first batch was rejected cause I made it too large. My calculations were off and I produced 90MB files :-) Now my second attempt is in QC. I used 5200 pixes for longest side which gives around 51MB

Thanks for the info.
I have done an action too and works very well 

I usually upsize my 5D files with Canon DPP RAW software. In the batch window I set the longer side of the image 5020 pixels, and export that to 16 bit tiff (which is in the last stage converted to 8bit jpg in Photoshop).

Does the script at http://phototechniquesWiki.com work with PS CS? I get "Syntax error Line 5 -> #target photoshop"
 

that's ok, thanks. I'll try again if I every get round to upgrading!

Hello everybody,

As far as I can read, many of you seems to do it in quite a hard way....?

Of course this depends intirely on each and everybody's workflow.....
I normally view my files in Bridge... double click on my RAW (NEF) witch opens the build in RAW converter in CS3. 

At this stage - as the FIRST thing, I upsize from 12 to 17.5 MP.

It seems to a general opinnion that the upsizing should take place as early as possible! And above all, before ANY post processing.

When doing like this, and I might add...  If I don't sharpen, then Alamy normally accepts the files.

If I need to sharpen a little, I normally use USM - figures 10-5-0

/Flemming

i am superstitious too, 
seriously, i read the same thing, about 10% steps of upsizing . when i was using my 7MP camera, and first joined Alamy, that was how i upsized.  i never got a rejection.
then again, i never submitted anything that did not look good enough to be upsized .

now i have my 14MP pentax, it's much easier. not much to upsize.

Yes, LR works no problem. I have tried both Photoshop and Lightroom to upsize and all have been accepted by Alamy. If I don't need to do any 'extra' work then I find it quicker to do the output straight from Lightroom in fact, so this has become my preferred option.