Oote on Jupiter Images: No!
Here’s the other item from the coversations with Oote Boe: an update on why him imagery is only now available from Almay.
I would like to bring the following under the attention of designers using JupiterImages services.
From a recent correspondence of my with JupiterImages concerning the quality of their digital files:
“When I received the JupiterImages digital files from you I found them also of a very bad quality. I made a test and JupterImages files are very very bad ! nsk… file is Jupiters:
m1r… is mine. The attached images are crops of a 100% enlargement.”
Note: Some of the comparison detail evident is lost when sized down for posting. However, even at the smaller sizes, the comparison in quality between the above and the below should be evident.
This is the image.
Third image is of a lightbulb against a blue background, NSK75576, there are lines ! across the image which are not in the slide.
Not only are it blurry, grainy, sharpened, and scratched scans but also by JupiterImages submission standards the file sizes are of not good enough quality / not large anough. I can go on.
Their reply was “The scans are the best I can offer because we only could work on the files that nonstock had originally, which seemed to be fine for many years. I am sorry they don’t meet your standards now.”
““Which seemed to be fine for many years.”! As you might recall , and this is only one example I know off, you told me a client asked for a better quality file of the sheep, NSK72979, because of the grainy quality of the file and you mentioned me that the sales department at JupiterImages decided not to act on it as it might not be a big sale! So it seems to me not -”FINE” for the many years my work is digital provided to clients.”
JupiterImages had at that time the original slides in there possession. It came down to the following: They have no intention to improve the quality so you designers can work with good files. Personally I think they say to you guys, if you do not spend enough money with them, “Go to Hell”. I rescanned them and now there are good quality scans available but only through Alamy.
