Clarification on photos
Albysf49-ING
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I just found a nomination with this photo: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Lot4pqdQbdV0rixp3HnM_b-W-jeQqcRlpG8mN9lxBGV1U7fZpEzoBzcmBXh5GgZjO4BQB77tBgsZ4jpDNWHacy0tTvCjqund8PciziGj=s0
As you can see, there are black spaces included in the image and in the past I refused the nomination as Third party image, because I think they looks like a screenshot, but did I choose correctly?
This may be a bug and often the image itself would be good without the black spaces
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They probably took the photo in landscape mode. You can use Google Lens to do an image search if you think it is a third party image. This one looks acceptable to me, but maybe your screen is higher resolution so you're seeing something I'm not.
I would not accept that photo. That is clearly a screenshot of a photo, and "including screenshots of someone else's photo" is listed under ineligible photo criteria. Using the third party photo rejection lets them know this is what it looked like.
If it were your own photo, why would you screenshot it?
That's what I tought. Is it a device problem or an app problem? I see many landscape photos without this problem.
I don't think the photo I used as example can be found on Google Lens, and that's what made me think it could be a bug. It is a good photo if you don't mind the black portions.
I still don't like a photo with two black portions as wayspot image tough
I agree it would be better without the bars, but people can always do a photo edit later. Depending on the game it is used in, the bars might not even show up after it's cropped. It's hard to tell on my phone how much of that image is bars, though, so I could be wrong. As for why, device problem/user error seems most likely to me.
Why do you say it's obviously a screenshot? If OP can't find it on Google Lens, I would lean towards original photo on an old phone. What's the tip-off it's a screenshot?
Photos that are obviously manipulated are to be rejected. That's not just limited to photos where things have been inserted into the photo itself or where some sort of obvious filter has been applied. Adding artificial borders certainly falls under the "obviously manipulated" rejection criteria, too. Just because they're giant flat black borders doesn't make it an exception to the rule, nor does the possibility that they were added unintentionally by the phone's camera. This example should still be rejected.
Blatant screenshot. 1* rejection.
Why is it definitely a screenshot, though? Just the black borders, or is there something else?