SS has no limit in MB or MP so its up to you, if you have 10000px on the longest side then if it is a real panorama (4:1) you end up with a 25MP picture which I believe it is more than enough, that said I have a lot bigger sometimes

Hi everyone,

Just to chime in on this one point: downsizing will only hurt your sales and the overall community.  I'll explain why.   

Shutterstock has over 550,000 customers, ranging from freelance graphic designers working with a variety of clients to high-end advertising agencies and publishers who buy images in volume.   Some of those customers buy individual images, some buy image packs and others buy images via the subscription model.

The point of uploading large (or your original) file sizes is to make sure that your images are suitable for the widest variety of customers and widest variety of uses, irrespective of how the image was purchased.

For example, some advertising agencies will buy images under agreements that allow for a royalty of up to $120 per download.  If you upload smaller images that fail to meet an advertising agency's requirements, you'll either leave them frustrated or turn them off to your portfolio.

As others have pointed out, it's in your interest to try to capture the widest variety of sales from customers already transacting at Shutterstock, which means providing high quality files suitable for the widest variety of end uses.

Best,

Scott
VP of Content
Shutterstock
� Last Edit: January 20, 2013, 12:26 by scottbraut �

Here's the answer, even if it doesn't say so in the FAQ. And pay attention to Megapixels and Megabytes!

Image size is not limited, image size on disk is limited. Someone is now saying HUH?

Image Size on disk is the FILE SIZE not the image size. I too have had an image bounced by the system, not a reviewer, the automatic system, for being over the maximum allowed. It didn't say how much, but from others experience it seems that 30 Megabytes is that limit. The upload is rejected before getting into the system.

Depending on compression, you could make a huge image, less than 25MB on disc, and with DPI and resolution, you can make a much larger file, with a smaller image. Physical file size is the limit.

Image Size is not restricted, but I don't know why anyone wants to upload huge high-res images for 25-33-38 cents? Make it smaller, it's not going to make a difference for the buyer if it's Godzilla size or just Gargantuan size.  It's not going to take a day to upload either. Hint: reducing the image size will make any flaws less visible, more files will get accepted if you downsize.

Wiki can say what they want but the standard (where there is no standard) prints from panorama film cameras were 4:12 inches 1:3 in other words. The large frames for panorama posters are... 12:36 = 1:3. Or 3:1 depending on how you view it? Not 4:1

Panorama is whatever it needs to be to fit the image, but the standard, off the shelf frames, are 1:3 not 1:4

Quote from: ruxpriencdiam on October 08, 2013, 06:59

From my understanding SS does limit the Pano size, there is a thread about it because this was brought up before by someone who had their Pano rejected for image size.