As regular recorders will know, virtually all photos uploaded to the database are subject to image-processing to meet UKDFD requirements for quality of presentation. Simple processing, such as cropping the image, slightly rotating it or adjusting brightness are not an issue, but failure to observe some of the image recording guidelines can cause major problems and waste a considerable amount of time.

If a background is textured, or an external shadow is cropped, for example, the time required to reproduce these features if the image needs to be rotated can be many multiples of the actual time spent validating the record.

Please check that you are meeting the requirements by clicking the blue highlighted link above, and particularly note the first two photographic requirements in the bulleted list, as it is failure to observe these that causes most of the problems.