Quote from: cclapper on May 15, 2011, 07:21

I personally don't think it wise to go exclusive at any site, but regarding your images...
if you are submitting a bunch with only slight camera angles or minor changes, I can see why some might get rejected. If you have 10 images with only MINOR changes, you should choose the best one or two and only submit them. Before others jump in and start talking about similars being helpful for the designer, I agree, but the keyword you are mentioning is MINOR. If by different angle you mean front view, side view, back view, top view, etc., meaning totally different angles, then I share your disgust with the rejections, assuming all other technical aspects of the image are correct.

As far as your question "But let's assume it is true, so how the other two were accepted?"...you might as well not even worry about the answer. It is what it is. Either go exclusive, accept the rejections, learn from then, resubmit to scout, or as Sean says, post an image so others might help you understand, or give up exclusivity, submit to others sites where you might get some of the others accepted.

But my first paragraph above should be applied to all sites. Most are cracking down on MINOR CHANGE similars anyway.

Hi cclapper,
I know what you mean but; 

1) Sometimes minor changes make a totally different concept (thats why I gave the specific example). Just by changing the name on the building, it can be either e-gov, online banking, or e-learning concept.

2) If "minor" change is the problem, then they should say so, "jagged lines" cannot correct themselves from one image to other while I'm using the same settings and geometries.

Quote from: lthn on May 15, 2011, 17:21

Downsizing also degrades image quality

never heard of that, can you please explain why? I do it rarely if I feel that a picture isn�t tack sharp (and cannot do it again) and it does look better "downsized"

You just failed at photoshop. The crop tool doesn't sample anything anywhere, thats the 'image size' command.

Quote from: sjlocke on May 15, 2011, 12:28

Regardless, you can't submit an image larger than your camera native size.

Another good reason to remove any EXIF information which is not absolutely necessary. No camera information - no native format - no rejection for not matching a camera's native format.

There are cameras providing RAW files which have actually more pixels than the "native" JPEGs with in-camera and external software just using a crop. Trying to explain this to istock's inspectors is a waste of time. The oh-so-clever inspectors always responded with "don't upsample". Hilarious. After removing the EXIFs I never got another "upsampled" rejection. Win-win - bigger files, less rejections.