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Alamy.com / Isn't upsizing nonsense?
« on: December 02, 2009, 15:37 »
I just signed up to Alamy and wanted to give it a try. As you know they have a 48MB uncompressed file size minimum. Now I read here that some of you scale your pictures up to reach this minimum size.
I honestly don't understand the reasoning behind this. This does not go against you, but Alamy. Upsizing a picture adds no information whatsoever. Anyone who buys a smaller picture can do this him-/herself in a matter of seconds, so why should they pay more for it? Don't buyers expect higher quality when they buy the maximum file size? If I bought a picture at maximum size only to find out it has been scaled up, I would not be very happy.
Don't Alamy notice upsizing or don't they care?
I honestly don't understand the reasoning behind this. This does not go against you, but Alamy. Upsizing a picture adds no information whatsoever. Anyone who buys a smaller picture can do this him-/herself in a matter of seconds, so why should they pay more for it? Don't buyers expect higher quality when they buy the maximum file size? If I bought a picture at maximum size only to find out it has been scaled up, I would not be very happy.
Don't Alamy notice upsizing or don't they care?