And I don't think in-camera sharpening is what they're worried about anyway. I think they're more concerned about losing detail from sharpening incorrectly. It's pretty hard to get your camera to take a photo and sharpen it to the point where its unusable...from my experience anyway.
Saving as tiff's at the moment, they're too big to Save For Web.
Two thoughts.
You should be able to resave as a jpeg from tiff to reduce file size, then save for web
Secondly, why do you rely on the camera to sharpen for you? It makes more sense to me to have the control of sharpening in post, rather then letting a machine make the judgment call. Just a thought.
Almost all cameras apply some in-camera sharpening to JPEGs. Simply don't worry about it. They aren't concerned with it unless it results in artifacts such as halos.
Thay don't allow sharpening? That's strange. What if it makes the shot better? Do they actually check the metadata and throw out the ones that have been sharpened?
Originally posted by Tsai:
Apologies if this has already been answered but I couldn't find it.
A lot of stock sites require no sharpening, I have photo's that have in camera sharpening already applied, photo's that I can't retake.
Is there any way to edit the metadata? I know there's some ways (like in Bridge) but that won't let me modify certain parts (the parts I need).
The stock agencies don't want sharpening because the end user (client) or pre-press agent of the end user needs to sharpen the image in a way that is compatible with thier printing process..... might not be the exact correct way of describing it but that is the main reason (and to avoid oversharpenig issue such as haloing & artifacts too.)
I send all my images that will be printed in 4-color without sharpening, even to magazines, so that they may sharpen to meet thier needs.
Stock places like Alamy ask you to turn off the in-camera sharpening if you are taking photos in JPG format. In RAW the in-camera sharpening does nothing, only works on JPG saved file. Since Alamy now only wants JPG files sent to them they don't care if the original starts as JPG or RAW but I think they still want in-camera sharp turned off.
The EXIF data file will show the amount of in-camera sharp you had turned on. If it is the normal amount you probably will be accepted. Good luck.
