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Hi all!
Tarq has redone the upload FAQ http://www.airliners.net/faq/ adn the rejection messages have been reworked also. Most important thing is that badscan isnt badscan anymore but instead of it its badquality. And theres a new one BADMANIPULATION.
For those who never get rejections  but are still interested in the new messages, here they are:
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BADBLURY
The photos were blurry or unsharp.
This might be caused by motion blur from trying to track a fast moving
object or inadequate post-processing of the raw image. Look carefully
at your original picture/slide. If it is sharper than the uploaded file,
you might try using a photo manipulating program like Photo Shop or
Paint Shop Pro to sharpen the images, using the Unsharp Mask, Adaptive
Unsharp, or Sharpen tools. Most scanners and digital cameras will not provide a very sharp
image without such post-scan manipulation. Digital camera output without any form of post processing is
generally not of an acceptable standard for airliners.net without some form
of post-processing. If the original image is not sharper, this might be
caused by the camera, the light conditions when you shot the photos, object
out of focus, improper photo manipulations or any combination thereof. If
you have uploaded a shot that is towards the limits of your digicam's
resolution then try scaling the image to a smaller size to give an
impression of greater sharpness.
If you think you have been able to improve the quality of the photos,
please re-upload them. Note that we are still very interested in having
these photos in our database, we only ask that you try to improve the
quality of the digital version of your photos.
BADQUALITY
The image quality of these photos is low. This may be the result of several
perceived problems happening simultaneously, such as grain, blur, lighting,
contrast or color defects, which would lead us to believe that a fresh scan
(in the case of a non-digital image) or a complete rework starting with the
original camera file (in the case of a digitally taken image)would be necessary,
rather than a simple adjustment to the uploaded file.
It could be caused by the scanner you are using, the way you scanned your
photos, the (digital) camera, the light conditions when you shot the photos,
object out of focus, improper photo manipulations or any combination
thereof. Most of the time, the cause is either a bad scanner or that the
scanner wasn't used properly. If you think this might be the cause, please
read the documentation for your scanner and find the best DPI and color
settings. Generally a higher DPI and color setting will make a higher
quality image but only to a certain degree and it differs between different
brands of scanners. Try many different settings until you find the best
combination. If you are using an old or low quality scanner you might
consider investing in a new or borrow one from your friend/workplace/school.
If you are using a digital camera, check camera settings, please be aware
also that ,unprocessed, digital camera output is generally not
of acceptable quality for airliners.net. If you are using a lower quality digital
camera with a resolution below 3 Megapixel you might consider investing in a
camera with higher resolution or borrow one from your friend/workplace/school.
A frequent source of this problem is when the photograph was taken under
poor weather conditions without appropriate corrective measures (such as
exposure). Note that making acceptable photographs in poor weather
conditions or at night is quite difficult, and you should perhaps try to
achieve a good level of expertise and a few successful uploads of good
weather photographs before attempting much more difficult poor weather
or night photography.
If you think you have been able to improve the quality of the photos,
please re-upload them. Note that we are still very interested in
having these photos in our database, we only ask that you try to improve
the quality of the digital version of your photos. You can find examples
of photos with a high quality scanning in out "Editor's Choice"
section linked to from the front page of Airliners.net.
BADPHOTOG
Something about your upload or the attached information leads us to believe
that you may not be the actual photographer of this photograph. You may get
this message especially if the photograph appears to be a "high
production-value" photograph, such as air to air shots requiring significant
airline cooperation and expense. You must have photographed the photos
yourself to add them to Airliners.Net. This is very important due to the
copyright issues involved. If you want to upload photos taken by friends, or
relatives like for example your father or grandma
mail us and we'll let you know what to do. To upload photos you do not own
the copyrights to is a violation of international copyright laws and may
cause huge fines or jail depending on severity and country. If you are
the photographer, please indicate this in your remarks.
BADSIZE
The size of the photos are too small. Please scan your photos about 1024
pixels wide and 768 pixels high for landscape format photos, or 800
pixels high (the longer side) for portrait format photos
(with a high DPI and color depthsetting) and re-upload them.
Note that the minimum acceptable width (for landscape-format pictures)
is 800 pixels across. Another reason might be that your photo has a very
unusal size like for example square dimensions or a site ratio way below 3:2.
BADINFO
Some of the info you submitted together with the photos was either
missing, incorrect, irrelevant or in the wrong format and we were
unable to correct it. A common reason for this message is where the
registration appears to have been legible on your original picture,
and the registration was not typed into the appropriate box on the
upload form. In the case that this reason was the only one given in
the rejection E-Mail please re-upload the photos and pay high attention to
supplying correct info. If there have been other reasons also please correct them
before reuploading the photo with the correct information attached.
You will find more info on this issue in the Upload-FAQ.
You may also receive this message if some of the info you submitted
together with the photos was either written in a non-English
language, misspelled or used capital and lower-case letters in all
the wrong places. Please re-upload the photo and pay high attention
to spelling and whether to use caps or lower-case. (General rule:
Never use all capital letters).
BADMOTIV
The photos were of low esthetic qualities - bad angle, included
window reflections (for shots taken through glass such as terminal windows),
pictured just a part of an aircraft (with no motivation, like a special
sticker, damage etc., for doing so), out of focus, distracting or
obstructing objects in the foreground or similar (this is especially true
for gate shots which are very difficult to get accepted due to their common
nature and the large amount of ancilliary equipment which usually surrounds
the aircraft) or did not picture an aircraft or anything sufficiently
related to aviation at all. Finally, you might read this because your camera
displays the date in the lower right corner of the image. If so, please
disable that feature in the future.
BADDIRTY
The scan looks dirty. This may be caused by a dirty scanner,
slide or image sensor. For a flatbed scanner, use lintless
cloth and window cleaner or other appropriate glass-cleaning
product to clean the scan bed. For film/slide scanners, try
using compressed air to blow out any dust. For digital cameras
follow the cleaning instructions in the manual of your camera.
This message may
also appear if there was dirt or scratches on the slide or
negative. Always try to clean away small particles with a very
light brush or compressed air before scanning. If you are using
a digital camera it may happen that the image sensor is dirty.
Please refer to the owners manual for proper cleaning of the image
sensor. Dirt that finds its way into the final image can often be
repaired by using the cloning tool available in most photo
manipulation software.
BADEXPOSURE
These photos appear to have been either overexposed (too bright) or
underexposed (too dark). This could be a scanning problem or a
problem with the original photos. Check your original photo, if
it appears to be correctly exposed then please change the settings
on your scanner or use a photo manipulating tool to adjust the brightness
of the photos. If the photo is a digital shot then you will probably be
unable to improve the shot to an acceptable standard.
If you think you have been able to improve the quality of the photos, please
re-upload them. Note that we are still very interested in having these
photos in our database, we only ask that you try to improve the quality
of the digital version of your photos.
BADCOPYRIGHT
Please do not add any text or graphics to your photos. A small copyright
notice (your name & e-mail) in a corner is acceptable but remove any other
text or graphics from your photos (Including URLs). If you prefer to add
such a copyright notice onto your pictures please make sure that they are
not visible on the thumbnail. This can be checked on confirmation page of
the upload progress where you can see the thumbnail of your picture as it
will appear when your picture gets added to the database. Furtermore make
sure you dont include any Urls or parts of them in the field for the
photographer name or the remark field. You will find more info in the
Upload-FAQ. In the case that this reason was the only one given in
the rejection E-Mail please re-upload them. If there have been other reasons
also please correct them before reuploading the photo with the correct information attached.
BADCOLOR
There is a problem with the color in your photos. You could get this
rejection message for one of two reasons. Either there is a strong color
cast that makes you photo look too red/blue/yellow etc. or you seem to be
using a low color depth in your photos.
Please check the settings on your scanner (High DPI and color depth) to
ensure you are using 16 bit colors or higher. You might also experience
problems with poor colors if you use a too high compression level when
saving your jpeg files. You should also have your monitor and video card
properly set up for 24 bit color or higher (usually called "true color").
Windows users can easily check this by right clicking on the desktop and
looking in display settings.
Color casts can be caused by the light at the time you took the photos, or
any problem with color settings when you scanned or edited them. You can
usually fix these photos by simply adjusting the red/green/blue settings in
your photo editing program. Try comparing the colors in your photo(s) to
some of those already on Airliners.net.
If you are scanning very old pictures, particularly (but not limited to) E-6
slides more than 20 or so years old, there may be a very strong color shift.
Some of the more recent scanning and photo manipulation software have
specific functions designed to restore the colors of old pictures.
If you are scanning prints on a flatbed scanner, this may be the result of
"corrections" frequently made at the photo lab. These "corrections" are
especially harsh on aviation photography. In this case we strongly
recommend that you either change photo labs, or ask your lab to develop
your pictures without using any color correction (some labs will do this
if requested).
If you are using a digital camera the badcolours can also be a result of a
inproper setting of the white balance in your camera. The way to check and
change this is usually described in the owners manual.
If you think you have been able to improve the quality of the photos, please
re-upload them. Note that we are still very interested in having these
photos in our database, we only ask that you try to improve the quality of
the digital version of your photos.
BADCONTRAST
The photos seem to have been scanned with a too high or too low contrast
setting. Please change the settings on your scanner or use a photo
manipulating tool to improve the contrast. (High contrast = dark areas
are very dark and light areas are very light.). In case of a digital camera
you might also check the menus of the camera for your contrast settings.
This is usually described in the owners manual. A more sophisticated (and
possibly more effective method is to adjust the black-point and
white-point of the image, where you manually define which areas of the
image should be absolute black and white, and let the software adjust the
rest of the image accordingly. You could also get this message under
certain lighting conditions, such as heavily clouded days, where the
aircraft does not stand out sufficiently from the background.
If you have managed to rectify the problem, please re-upload your photos.
BADERROR
An error occurred then trying to process these photos. This could
possibly be caused by an incorrect or not unique enough filename or a server problem.
Note that our scripts cannot process files whose names include
"jpg" or "jpeg" in the main filename (before the dot). Example:
747jpg.jpg would not work. Furthermore, the filename needs to be
shorter than 50 characters and reasonably original (1.jpg would be
a bad filename). If your filename seems OK then it's probably our
problem and we ask that you accept our apologies and please try to
upload the shot again.
BADDOUBLE
These photos have already been added to the database or you have
uploaded other photos that look very much like these. Please read more
on this issue in the Upload-FAQ.
Note: You could also get rejection message if there are photos very similar
to these that have passed the first screening and are waiting for the
second, final, screening. Also, generally if you submit a number shots of
an aircraft taken at the same time, only the best 1 or 2 will be selected
and rest may have been rejected as doubles. You can better control
which ones we accept by only uploading the 1 or 2 best shots from a
sequence of photographs of the same aircraft.
Please check the database carefully for already existing photos of this aircraft
before uploading new photos and retain from reuploading photos which where rejected
with baddouble. Continous reuploading might result in a temporary ban from the site.
BADPEOPLE
You need permission from the people pictured on the photo to be
allowed to publish it. Generally we do not accept photos with
people on them as our database is primarily for airliners. There
are some exceptions though. The rule essentially is that the
primary subject of the photo must be the aircraft, not the
person. If the person is clearly recognizable (facing the camera),
clear mention that permission was given by that person must be
stated in your remarks. The only exception of this rule are people
of common interest like for example Sir Richard Branson or Michael O'Leary.
BADPERSONAL
Please read the personal message from the screener below.
BADBORDERS
Please remove the borders that partly or in full surrounds these photos.
These borders can be caused by rotating the picture in order to get
it leveled and afterwards not checking the corners and cutting them off in a proper
way. Another source of the problem can be the sharpening of the picture. In this cases
just make the canavas size smaller as final step of your processing.
BADCENTERED
Either part of the aircraft is not visible on these photos or the
aircraft is fully visible but not centered in the frame. If the aircraft is
fully visible but not centered, you might try to crop the photo
so that the aircraft is centered. Whilst motivated close-up
shots are acceptable, you might be getting this rejection for a shot
where an aircraft is substantially pictured but a small amount of
the wingtip, tail or nose is cut off. In this case you should re-crop
the original photo to either include the whole aircraft or crop in
tighter.
BADANGLE
The angle of the camera does not seem to be straight compared
to the horizon. In the future, make sure you always hold the
camera absolutely level. This particularly applies to pictures
of aircraft on the ground. For shots of aircraft in flight where
the ground is visible (take-offs and landings in particular),
the general rule is that the camera should be level with the
horizon and the aircraft be at an angle. There may be
exceptions to this rule if the composition of the picture is
unique and having a level horizon would detract from the
aesthetic value of the picture (such cases will be rare).
A good method for checking if the photo is leveled is to check
the verticals in the photo (if there are any) for really being vertical.
Such problems can often be fixed by carefully rotating and
cropping the picture. If you think you have been able to
improve the photos, please re-upload them. Note that we are
still very interested in having these photos in our database,
we only ask that you try to improve the quality of the digital
version of your photos.
BADCATEGORY
Either you select the wrong categories or you neglected to
select the categories that this photo should have been added
to. It is very important that all photos are added to the
correct categories. In the case that this reason was the only one given in
the rejection E-Mail please re-upload the photos, making sure
you select the correct categories. If there have been other
reasons also please correct them before reuploading the photo
with the correct categories selected.
If you are unsure which categories applies, read the Read Me link situated beside
each category button on the upload page. Note that several
categories, such as special or hybrid color schemes, are
ONLY for airliners and NOT for SINGLE PROPS, HELICOPTERS, OR MILTARY.
BADGRAINY
These photos are too grainy. Try using your photo software's
feature to reduce. Adobe PhotoShop has a special feature on
reducing grain. Grain is often caused by too much sharpening,
flat, uniform areas (such as the sky) are particularly prone
to becoming grainy if too much sharpening is applied. Certain
films, particularly high-speed films (anything higher than
100 ASA) have more visible grain and poorer color performance
than slower films (100 ASA or lower)
BADDISTANCE
The aircraft pictured in these photos are too far in the distance.
In the future, try getting close to the aircraft or use more zoom.
BADCOMPRESSION
Too much JPEG compression. If your photo is wider than 1600
pixels or higher than 1600 pixels it will be downsized and
that might lower the picture quality. Keep the width on
exactly 1024 and save with minimum JPEG compression and the
quality will be at it's best. Do not worry about long download
times for low compression files, our scripts will automatically
optimize compression without loss in picture quality. Always
save your photos with the lowest possible compression. As a
general reference, the size of a JPEG file without any
compression, of 1024 pixels by 700, will be somewhere in the
range of 400-700 KB, depending on the composition and color
range.
BADJAGGED
The transition between solid lines on these photos give a very
jagged impression or the photograph appears to be generally
oversharpened. This is generally most evident on solid lines
such as wing leading edges, particularly if several lines are
close together, such as gaps between the wing and flaps,
cheat lines spaced closely together, or the aircraft titles
and registration. Try increasing the scan DPI and/or
eliminating any JPEG compression, then try sharpening the
picture less aggressively. You might also try using a smoothing
filter, or selective use of masks to avoid excessive sharpening
or areas where jagged lines may occur. A good airliners.net
image should be sharpened to just before the point where the
titles and edges of the aircraft start to turn jagged.
BADSOFT
The photos were soft. This doesnt mean they are blurry (like motion
blur). It means that they could need this extra kick of sharpness.
This target can be reached by using the sharpen function of your
Photoediting program. For example in Photoshop try the Adaptive Unsharp
mask. But be carfule not to oversharpen your pictures. Oversharpening can be
idetified by jaggies. This is when a line that should have straight borders
has borders that look like stairs. Most scanners will not provide a very
sharp image without such post-scan manipulation. Raw digital camera output
is generally not of an acceptable standard for airliners.net without some
form of post-processing.
If you think you have been able to improve the Sharpness of the photos,
please upload them again. Note that we are still very interested in having
these photos in our database, we only ask that you try to improve the
sharpness of the digital version of your photos.
BADDARK
The image looks overall too dark. That can be caused by incorrect scanner
(exposure, brightness, contrast, etc.) or camera (exposure, ISO speed,
etc.) settings, or more likely because you took the photo under difficult
light conditions (against the sun, overcast, rain, late afternoon, night,
etc.). Please avoid shooting under difficult light conditions/poor weather
if you are not used to it, or try to improve the image by enhancing it with
Photo/Paint Shop or similar manipulation tools. Remember not to over-enhance
the image loosing its original appearance.
BADCOMMON
There are a large number of pictures of the aircraft you
photographed already on the database. In such cases, the
standards for acceptance are higher than for planes of which
we have fewer or no photographs on the database. In this
case, we will only accept pictures which are of very high
quality, or otherwise of an unusual nature. If you recieved
a secondary rejection reason, in addition to this one,
this is the area in which the screener felt the image failed.
Please understand that this is not a judgement on your
abilities, as your picture may be of a technical quality
which may be, on the whole, acceptable. However, due to
the common nature of the aircraft photographed, the highest
standard is applied to avoid substantial duplication.
Please check the database carefully for already existing photos of this aircraft
before uploading new photos and retain from reuploading photos which where rejected
with baddouble. Continous reuploading might result in a temporary ban from the site.
BADREUPLOAD
The photo you uploaded seems to have no changes
compared to the version that was already rejected. If you don not
agree with the screeners decision please be so kind and don not
reupload this picture again. Instead use the appeal link which is
included in you confirmation e-mail further down to move this rejected
picture into the queue of the site admin who will have the final decision
about acceptance or rejection of this picture. If the picture was
already appealed by you and rejected by the administrator please be
so kind and don not reupload it again without trying to improve it.
Continous reuploading might result in a temporary ban from the site.
BADMANIPULATION
The picture appears to have been manipulated in post-processing beyond
what is acceptable for submission to airlines.net, or the manipulation
that has been done is noticable or of low quality. Examples of these
problems include noticable cloning such as removal of objects from the
image, addition of objects to photographs, deliberate blurring of objects
or faces, excessive sharpening or blurring of the overaell image
(e.g. smart-blur, gausian blur, etc), or introduction of colour casts.
Manipulation of images should be limited to rotating to correct
horizontals and verticals, cropping, colour and level corrections,
and some careful sharpening. Cloning should only be used to remove
minor imperfections such as dust marks and scratches.
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Peter
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