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Agency Based Discussion => Pixmac => Topic started by: petrh on November 12, 2008, 17:50
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Hi ! :o)
Yesterday i found site http://www.pixmac.com with free keywording you can just only upload photos and keywording make for you for free. I think thats great or not ?
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Actually Canstockphoto has had a keywording tool for years.
I have loaded photos on pixmac and cannot work out how to add the keywords or select auto keywords. the page just sits there for me.
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Actually Canstockphoto has had a keywording tool for years.
I have loaded photos on pixmac and cannot work out how to add the keywords or select auto keywords. the page just sits there for me.
Well the fact that Canstockphoto has a keywording tool is a bit different then when you send Images with title and place where they were taken and someone does keywording and categorization for you
and for free , at leas from my point of view.
Im not a member there so I dont know ( and I wonder) if they do a good job or they just throw 4-5 keywords , but they have my hat down for that move.
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Now I remember speaking of them as Fotolia affiliates.
So I was wondering , if people with portfolio on Fotolia already have their work there , wouldn't it be a smart move and join them directly , maybe even avoid too much uploading as they already have large parts of our Fotolia portfolios ?
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Has anyone actually got their photos accepted at pixmac with the 'auto keyword'.
My first batch are all still sat there in "Waiting : 2008-09-28" with no sign of anything happening?
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Well my apologies for the mistake over the auto keywording. I was wrong of course. Yes, CanStockPhoto had a tool, and pixmac does the work. Different.
Yeah, I am waiting for my acceptance too photohome. Just loaded 25 or so and will try them out.
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I don't understand why to signup to pixmac since if u are on Fotolia your pictures will be there. I am missing something?
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cheers for that ldambies, a quick search of msgroup reveals all.
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cheers for that ldambies, a quick search of msgroup reveals all.
reveals what ?
Is there a possibility that not all of your Fotolia images are not there ? I see only about 1/4 of my Fotolia portfolio there.
If you are Fotolia member you have to sell your images on picmac as well , so maybe if one already has to be there ,
if that one uploads his portfolio directly there , the share from sales would be divided in 2 parts not in 3 isnt it so ?
And last , if their keywording system is good , maybe one could send first batches there , get his images keyworded ,
and concentrate more on the shooting new stuff , and later use those keywords.
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Yes i have photos with pending status but now are accepted and i am happy because i can not think about keywording and i get it for free. Its great! Better than others. Good Luck PIXMAC!
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Actually Canstockphoto has had a keywording tool for years.
I have loaded photos on pixmac and cannot work out how to add the keywords or select auto keywords. the page just sits there for me.
Well the fact that Canstockphoto has a keywording tool is a bit different then when you send Images with title and place where they were taken and someone does keywording and categorization for you
and for free , at leas from my point of view.
So for example any my images have about 20 or more keywords but i hope that them sort that of priority.
Im not a member there so I dont know ( and I wonder) if they do a good job or they just throw 4-5 keywords , but they have my hat down for that move.
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Can someone tell me any other futures for keywordign because i found only www.pixmac.com make keywording for free or know someoen anything else ?
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i sold 100 photos GGREAAAAAAAAT :o)
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100 photos, really? Astonishing! Congrats.
Regards,
Adelaide
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i sold 100 photos GGREAAAAAAAAT :o)
O_o
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yeah right ;D
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yeah right ;D
Now do we get a two week break before Petrh comes back telling us all about pixmac again?
It's a Fotolia reseller looking for photographers, nothing more.
What I don't get is, the same people will upload all the same photos to this site, just like they do to every new site and there's no reason for someone buying photos to go there, for the same photos. No marketing advantage to attract buyers to the SOS. ;) Unless it's a SS reject, you can find most of the same photos for the lowest subscription prices already, or On Demand.
Say I'm a Fotolia member (which I am) and I start uploading all my photos to pixmac, now what happens? Are they going to find the dupes and dump them or just push the Fotolia versions off the edge of a cliff so they can take their own higher profits without paying the supplier. Are my new uploads to both sites going to start bamging heads to see which version gets up on pixmac, or maybe they just bought the rights to whatever library they have and new Fotolia photos won't be ported over in the future. That actually makes the most sense to avoid complications and confusion.
I hate to be one of the negative voices, but now and then the facts (or my opinion that I see as facts) have to be expressed. This site goes in the bit bucket with the rest of the new start-ups that won't make it past 2009. Only way it will survive is if it's financed by some deep pockets, government backing comes to mind. Anyone else will see that they are throwing money down a sewer and get out of the business.
organization: Pixmac s.r.o.
address: Jiraskova 1275
city: Pardubice
postal-code: 53002
country: CZ
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organization: Pixmac s.r.o.
address: Jiraskova 1275
city: Pardubice
postal-code: 53002
country: CZ
Look here, a brand new poster registers and starts to yell Hail <New Agency>. He even sold 100 pictures there. No, he has no portfolio on the other sites (or doesn't mention it). Isn't that astonishing? They even do free keywording (as does Snapvillage for almost 2 years). It's even Eastern European and as we all know, their English is as perfect as a native speaker.
Spam-alert.
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Hello guys,
sorry to disturb you, but I would like to make some things clear. As I am working there as a UI designer...
Yes Pixmac is another new agency, yes we are from so called "Eastern Europe". And yes, we have bugs on the site. But where is the problem with our concept? There are no lies, there is nothing completely broken.
I work at Pixmac because of the people here and the challenge. We are trying to make microstock differently and yes, we have some steps to take. But if you read our blog, there is always something from our kitchen, so people can know instead of think what might be...
Some of them are:
1. Create the site in more languages & hire a better translators :-)
2. Make the search accurate and relevant (we make keywording, we update the database according to criteria we measure)
3. Make it the most user friendly, comprehensive, easy to understand tool for selling Microstock (my part of the job)
4. Make fun, be happy at work and listen to every user. That is my personal challenge.
4. Make our owners happy :-)
Thanks for reading this horrible english, Vita Valka
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hmm
going to register, see you there.... ;)
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Registered today. Gonna give them a try. Just having keywords written for free is a reasonable incentive for me.
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What is the point of submitting to Pixmac, they are an affiliate of FT, right? I already see my images there (not all, though).
Regards,
Adelaide
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What is the point of submitting to Pixmac, they are an affiliate of FT, right? I already see my images there (not all, though)
After a bad experience at SV that ruined my essential keywords, I'd like sites to stay away from my keywords. With the exception of Zymmetrical since they seem to know what they're doing.
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How about the quality of the keywording at pixmac ? Anybody uploaded there and have some feedback on this ?
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How would you possibly know which pictures they have of yours and what they dont from Fotolia? It is hard to find them all I imagine.. it isnt like you can search your name on there. They got to know they will end up with duplicates.
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How about the quality of the keywording at pixmac ? Anybody uploaded there and have some feedback on this ?
Don't be shocked, I keyworded an image of yours on Dreamtime. You missed 2 essential things. I came up with 20 more. Sometimes I act like Mother Theresa ::)
Just my 2 cents... literally. :P
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Don't be shocked, I keyworded an image of yours on Dreamtime. You missed 2 essential things. I came up with 20 more. Sometimes I act like Mother Theresa ::)
Just my 2 cents... literally. :P
I'm not shocked at all, I'm a lazy keyworder. I read a few articles about keywording now and try to give it more attention, but I'm probably still quite bad at it.
I didn't understand your comment about dreamtime. From your message I understand that you changed the keywords of the image directly in Dreamstime... Is that possible ?
It's always good to have a mother theresa around ;D
Could you give me the link or id of the concerned photo, and the modifications you recommend ?
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I didn't understand your comment about dreamtime. From your message I understand that you changed the keywords of the image directly in Dreamstime... Is that possible ?
It's called keymentoring I guess. Everybody can suggest keywords for an image, but of course they have to be approved by a reviewer. The moment 10 or more are accepted, you get 2 cents. Sometimes I do it...
Could you give me the link or id of the concerned photo, and the modifications you recommend ?
I forgot the link but it was a vista of a small Normandy port. I added the generic terms vista,panorama,landscape and the two main items you didn't keyword: lighthouse,pharo,tower and pier,jetty,wooden,quay. Since it's obviously a tourist destination, I also added tourism,travel. In general shots like those don't sell a lot in microstock since they're only usable in specific travel brochures etc... if you covered that place entirely, you might try Alamy RM for those type of shots.
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Thanks for the keyword suggestion !! Feel free to make more. It is very appreciated. Seeing your portfolio, I understand that you don't do it for the 2c, so it's cool of you to help that way.
By the way, last week-end, I went on your website, and I really liked the way you give credit to your models, with their forte, etc...
I also got your generic model release. The one I used up to now got rejected in dreamstime because it didn't have the phone number of the model >:(
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I also got your generic model release. The one I used up to now got rejected in dreamstime because it didn't have the phone number of the model >:(
Yes DT can be very strict on that. I got a release rejected once because the witness name was not in print. Make sure all names are in print writing. For now, I fill out all myself, except the signature. Girls tend to have tiny handwritings and when you resize the MRF, it might become unreadable.
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I also got your generic model release. The one I used up to now got rejected in dreamstime because it didn't have the phone number of the model >:(
Yes DT can be very strict on that. I got a release rejected once because the witness name was not in print. Make sure all names are in print writing. For now, I fill out all myself, except the signature. Girls tend to have tiny handwritings and when you resize the MRF, it might become unreadable.
Good advise. By print, you mean capital letters ?
I thought about writing them myself too, but didn't cause I thought it would look fake (I write everything) and then make some picasso style signature...
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Can someone tell me any other futures for keywordign because i found only www.pixmac.com make keywording for free or know someoen anything else ?
i sold 100 photos GGREAAAAAAAAT :o)
So he came and so he left. Why is it all so predictable? ;D